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Lurgashall Reserve / Special Reserve Mead 2.99 34

Lurgashall Reserve / Special Reserve Mead

Percentile
45
overall
Brewed by Lurgashall Mead
Style: Mead

Lurgashall, England

bottling
unknown

on tap
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distribution
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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
343.03/5.02.99/5.0Winter16.5%33.3Snifter
Commercial Description:
Called Reserve Mead in the UK and Special Reserve Mead in USA. ABV is around 16.5 - 17%.
Despite the annual dating, the recipe is the same each year.
Matured for six months in Oak Barrels which have previously been used for rum and whisky maturation. The mead picks up flavours of the whisky and rum, and is then filtered and bottled. The finished product is a completely different type of mead, more complex and drier than traditional versions.
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 halfonit (476), Fall River, Massachusetts, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Nov 6, 2009  
Pale light golden color. Aroma is of rum and honey. Taste is a tart honey flavor. Has a tart and sweet bite in the end. Not bad at all.


 cheapdark (2037), Monacatootha, Pennsylvania, USA
1.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/101/53/101/56/20
Aug 2, 2009  
From a bottle at the Vintage Estates, nice place. Volatile plastic aroma. Somewhat sweet turpentine taste. Dry finish and sweet too, what a combo. Not enjoyable for a lager lover. Too many whisky attributes. Wew.


 JB175 (1664), Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/53/102/58/20
Mar 1, 2009  
2006 bottle. Golden color with a light floral honey aroma with some alcohol present in the nose. Flavor has some light honey with lots of woody rum & booze. This one gets messy fast and has an excessive booziness. Needs to be more substantial to withstand barrel aging IMHO.


 Miksu (2231), Jyväskylä, Finland
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/54/104/58/20
Jan 14, 2009  
Bottled in Stockholm Beer Festival 2008, as Lurgashall Malmesbury Reserve Mead. Golden color. The aroma and flavor is very sweet with very strong fermention characteristics: High perfumed fruitiness, glue and solvent. This is too sweet for me and the fermentation aromas and flavors are completely over the board.


 oh6gdx (9047), Vasa, Finland
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Sep 29, 2008  
Bottled@SBWF2008 (as Lurgashall Malmesbury Reserve Mead). Yellowish golden colour, no head. Aroma is honey and fruits along with some alcohol and wood. Flavour is bigtime wood and honey along with some warming alcohol. Complex and nice.


 omhper (12247), Stockholm, Sweden
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/512/20
Sep 26, 2008  
Bottled at Stockholm Beer Festival (as Lurgashall Malmesbury Reserve Mead, 17%). Clear still golden. Concentrated menthe-like honey aroma. Sweet and full bodied. A powerful, liqueurlike mead, complex and arousing. The sweetness gets evermore intense. Finishes with warming alcohol.


 BlackDonald (1127), Boise, Idaho, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/102/511/20
May 13, 2008  
I was not crazy about this, its very dry, and bitter. There is not a lot of residual sweetness in this one, like the others that I have tried. Their are some tropical fruit notes, but they are very subtle, did not pick up a lot of the woody notes in this one.


 ClarkVV (3578), Allston, Massachusetts, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/56/103/512/20
Jan 17, 2008  
2005 Reserve, from the bottle as part of a mead flight at Sunset Grill on 11/17/07
Excessively clear, light honey body with no head and very flimsy legs.
Heavily floral aroma with light notes of lavendar and moist woodchips that belie the very filtered/pasteurized presentation. Not much whiskey or rum, just some light vanillin and more dry honey notes. Hints of cinnamon and allspice finish it off, with the transition from note to note very quick. It never really gives you anything to hang on to. Medium to medium low strength of aroma with some alcohol dryness on the finish.
Tastes like wildflowers and clover, as usual, with flour and bits of plastic. Lurgashall meads tend more dry, so the texture is left very susceptible to this plasticy/flouriness that dulls the already mild flavor. Not much oak and with an odd, fleeting stickiness and a snap of spicy phenols on the end. Novel and more something that makes you just want to say "what the hell is this?". Not particularly offensive, nor is it something I’d get again. Alcohol is not rampant relative to how strong it is.



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