 beerbuzzmontreal (2921), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 16/20 |
Jun 10, 2005 Pours a clear reddish copper color with no head. Aroma of spices, wood and alcohol. Flavor of wood, spices, apples and honey. Syrupy texture. It’s a very alcoholic beverage but still I enjoy it quite a lot.
Cletus (5058), Connecticut, USA
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Jan 26, 2006 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.
OldGrowth (1432), North Carolina, USA
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
May 16, 2006 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.
Miguel (1181), Saint-Ours, Quebec, Canada
| 3.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Jun 6, 2005 Ratebeer Mondial Gathering (tiggmtl). Alcool en puissance! Raisins, miel, noix, boisé, cognac, pommes vertes, cerises...
Rastacouere (5564), Montréal, Quebec, Canada
| 3.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Jun 6, 2005 Clear light amber, no head. Vegetal honeyed wood nose. Sprucey and oxidized flavours match the bill. Alcohol feel is heavy in mouth, burning honey and oak interplays. Liquorous texture, thin bodied though slightly slick. No carbonation. Decent stuff.
mds (2112), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| 2.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 2/5 | 12/20 |
Jun 8, 2005 bottle. copper body with no head. aroma is predominately alcoholic and heavily sweet and sugary. Sweet honey flavour and alcohol burn. interesting mouthfeel. finish is very sweet.
SuIIy (1482), Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, USA
| 2.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 5/10 | 4/5 | 11/20 |
May 8, 2006 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.
muzzlehatch (4427), Burlington, Vermont, USA
| 2.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 5/10 | 2/5 | 11/20 |
Jul 1, 2005 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.
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