Lurgashall English / Celtic / Christmas Mead

Brewed by Lurgashall Mead
Style: Mead
Lurgashall, England

Bottle: Strong alcohol aroma. Almost rubbing alcohol with some honey. Pale transparent yellow with no head. Real nice honey falvor with a warming alcohol finish. Apple and white wine flavors as well. Even though the smell is strong alcohol, the alcohol in the flavor is balanced very well.

LURGASHALL ENGLISH MEAD 75cl ENGLISH MEAD 75 CL x 6 1/2 CASE Made from fermented honey, this is England’s oldest alcoholic beverage. Serve mulled with spices in winter, or over ice in summer. Style Medium sweet Alc 12.5% Size 75cl We love mead... and its honey properties We buy it online from http://www.dinkydrinks.co.uk

A very unique beverage. Similar to a japanese plum wine I once had. Clear yellowish straw color; very strong aroma of honey, maybe a hint of wildflowers. Powerful nose ... you don’t even have to sniff as it hits you like a Viking warhammer regardless. Thick and syrupy on the palate. Flavor is like fortified honey: sweet, but not overwhelmingly so, with a definite alcohol presence up front and on the back end ... leaves one with a pleasant warmth. I wasn’t sure if I liked it at first, but after half a goblet, I think it’s a pleasing drink. I wish I were drinking it from a horn or a flagon ... oh, well. Definitely an experience worth having, at any rate.

Strong smell of honey laced with alcohol. An explosion of honey that fades into the taste of the alcohol. I could see this stuff used with a good stern cup of tea. On it’s own, it’s a tad too overpowering and a touch sterile due to the high alcohol %.

Golden colour with a sweet honey nose. Flavour is sweet but not too much so. Just a good classic mead, and very yummy mulled.

Clear yellow with no head. Faint honey nose taste is very good with honey and some sweetness like suggar but not really. UPDATED: Just had a sample of the 2004 vintage and boy oh boy is this stuff bad. My orig rating of 3.2 is just too high.

Sure, I hated the highly touted Cantillon St. Lamvinus and loved this lowly mead. Go figure. This didn’t look very appealing. Clear pale yellow and no head. Sweet honey nose and medium body. Flavor was like a dessert wine or a sherry. Why are meads considered beers? I don’t understand. But this was quite good. A pleasant surprise.

Very nice straw color,no head of course.The aroma is Honey with a mild alcohol but very mild with a flowery smell coming through that i can only describe as lilac..very unique.Very smooth feel in the mouth with a very subtle sweetness coming through at first with a nice honey flavor,then comes the intense sweetness honey and the flowery taste of lilac againThe alcohol makes a brief showing and fades to a nice mild sweetness on the pallate.Still not as good as the Great Jadwiga but very decent in it’s own right.