Medovina Summer Solstice

Brewed by Medovina Meadery
Style: Mead
Niwot, Colorado USA

Bottle. My first mead on here. Pours a very clear pale gold color. The aroma is slightly zesty with a subtle honey note. Taste is similar with a nice sweet and bitter balance.

This one is pretty different from the others. It’s perfectly clear, very pale gold with a slightly green tint that’s barely perceptible. The aroma less pure honey than some of the others, lime zest with an almost chile pepper twist all followed up by a wood resin like kick that I’m not sure I fully enjoy. There’s a surprising bitterness in the finish that I’m not used to in a mead. Very interesting mead, this one.

Bottled in 2005. No head (still). Body is hazy light yellow. Aroma is notes of honey, flowers, lime, grass, alcohol, and oak. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly acidic. Medium body, watery/syrupy texture, flat carbonation, lightly astringent. A slightly lighter-bodied version of the off-dry Classic mead, perhaps? Very good mead, but more like white wine than I prefer a mead...Sweet Melissa and the Semi-Sweet Classic meads are still my faves. My girlfriend went nuts over this one, though, more so than Sweet Melissa, so it boils down to preference.