Peoples Pint Barrel Aged Slippery Slope

2003 bottle from Spirit Haus. Ok nose, sweet. Ginger, brandy, honey, little mint, apple. Hazy brownish orange color. No head, minor lacing. Sweet flavor, like aroma, with a sharp bite. Reminds me of a Dark and Stormy, (the drink with Gosling rum and ginger beer) maybe it’s the brandy barrels. Medium body, lite creamy mouthfeel, bitter sweet finish. I enjoyed certain aspects of this one, but couldn’t sit around having a bunch of these, but maybe the most enjoyable mead I’ve had so far.

2004 bottle aged in brandi bareels shared by OldGrowth. Pours a hazy orange/golden color with a small fizzy white head. Head receedes to nothing. Nose is honey, lots of ginger. Palate is interesting. Starts off like a watery cider, has some apple notes and is crisp, slowly turns into more of a mead. Has lots of honey notes with a thicker, more syrup like texture to it. There is some sweet malt notes here and there. The finish is lightly bitter and leaves the mouth sticky.

Pours still with an amber bondy. Smells of honey and oak. Taste is of honey and grapes. Didn’t pick up on the appley notes others noted.

(22oz bottle) Minimal off-white head atop a hazy amber body. Aroma is moderately sweet, brandy, some vanilla, light honey. Taste is medium sweet, pear, brandy, light honey, vanilla. Medium body, some stickiness, negligible carbonation.

Slippery Slope 2003 aged in brandy barrels for over a year, so the bottle says. I like these guys because they are nice and cool, and local to me. Pours an apple cider looking orange brown muddy mess. Sweet honey and ginger nose. Quickly dissipating head, no lace. Staeady carbonation. Peppery fuesel alcohol. Cider and brandy notes make for a Calvados-Mead creation. Meadalvados. Earthen, pepper, bourbon, brandy, vanilla, apple-jack, overipe brown rotten apples. Dry mead, and a quick jab to the jaw all alcohol. Hmmmm. What can I say?

Bottle. Orange-brown in colour, no head, no lace. The aroma had a honey sweetness, lots of bourbon and lots of alcohol. Alcohol dominates the flavour, quite sweet as well with still lots of honey, bourbon and a bit earthy. Syrupy mouthfeel, medium body, light carbonation. Finishes with a lingering alcohol burn. Fairly boring.

Smell is of something... what is it? Almost like the kind of candy secretaries give you? The appearance is a beautiful bronze/copper that holds its head. The flavor is tough. It says it’s 50% cider, and that shows up in the aftertaste for sure. Guess this ends up being a sweetish cider with a kick. Ehh.

Sample from bomber at the Ratebeer Mondial gathering. Unlike most of the participants at the gathering, I’m quite familiar with this brewpub and have generally been very pleased with it; so I for one was as excited about this as I was about almost anything else that evening. Way to dash my hopes. Pours dark, translucent amber-brown...alcoholic, with strongly pungent honey (buckwheat, maybe?) in the nose...light pale malt at the front underlying thick syrupy honey, which quickly turns sour, peppery and really boring. Can’t imagine drinking more than the small sample I had of this...it wasn’t terrible but it was tough to put down.