Middle Mountain Alpenglow Mead

Brewed by Middle Mountain Mead
Style: Mead
Hornby Island, Canada

Bottle from the Otown throwdown. Light orange pour. Layers of spices and honey notes linger throughout the aroma. Flavor is very tropical and fruity. Nice and delicate.

FRO Throwdown: Peach color. Cinnamon comes through quite clearly. Wasn’t expecting it! Light honey tones throughout.

Sample at O-town throwdown ’09 pours orange with viscous lacing. Aroma / taste are just very sweet-honey and filled with amazing spices. Im a really starting to enjoy these Canadian meads and mead in general. Spices add a nice warming mouthfeel.

Thank you Oakes! Glowing orange color with legs. Aroma is lovely and floral also and full of fun fruits including pineapple, apricot, melon. This is the best mead I’ve had to date. Finishes dry. Retains tons of flowers in the body. Pineapple again. Then apricot. Guava, passion, and other tart tropical fruits join the party. Excellent mead!

Golden amber-orange colour. The aroma is big mead, cinnamon, ginger and apple...oh yeah. Warming, with a muscular alcohol presence. But it’s smooth, tempered by enough residual honey...full-bodied stuff. Deft touch on the spicing - this is well seasoned with the nutmeg and cinnamon.

Bottle… This mead rocks!... Mostly clear amber mead with orange highlights and decent legwork. Rich maple and honey aroma with a wealth of spices unknown (if not for the commercial description). Barely medium-bodied - a bit thin. Certainly well-balanced for a mead. Sweet, herbal, earthy flavors. Dry, almost-raspy finish. I’d like to know the ABV as it’s either relatively low or expertly disguised. Kudos to Oakes for sharing this gem!

Courtesy Oakes. Pours a fairly clear reddish orange, with a lightly syrupy texture. Very spicy nose to it. All sorts of stuff going on here, mint, graham crackers, earth, and honey. Really dug the nose. The flavor is also pretty spicy, some floral notes, and sweet honey combine to form the flavor profile for this mead. I didnt like the flavor as much as the nose, but it was still pretty solid. Not as hot in the finish, but the floralness was there all the way to the end. Pretty solid mead.

Sort of a dark dirty red grapefruit colour. Spiced aroma with the cloves dominating. Tasted delicious cold with a tasty spice and a strong promise. Dusty clove and cinnamon flavours. Tastes like it wants to be heated. Heated it is all warm spice like cinnamon apple cider without the taste of promise. Heating also brings out a warm alcohol presence and light burn in the finish.