Ramapo Valley Passover Honey Beer

Brewed by Ramapo Valley Brewery
Style: Mead
Hilburn, New York USA

12 oz bottle. I picked up a few of these for a gluten-intolerant friend... she then accused me of trying to kill her. Goddamn, this stuff is nasty. Hazy pale amber. Rancid aroma of motor oil, dirty fusely higher alcohols and cheap honey. Flavour is cidery, band-aidy with notes of burned rubber. So many off-flavours that it’s tough to decide whether or not to list them or just let the numbers speak for themselves.

I really want to hate this but I can’t. It’s actually very striking to look at ... crystal clear golden with a frothy head and great (if quickly escaping) carbonation. Looks like a Martinelli filtered apple cider. Nose of floral hops and honey. Taste of floral hops and honey and apple ... if not for the hops I would have thought this was hard cider mixed with mead. OK mouthfeel. Actually drinks OK for a mead, pretty disappointing for a lager.

Blah...what the heck is this? Aroma was very weak but of metal. Pour was a medium yellow with no head. Taste was tart and medium carbonated. Wheaty with some sweetness (the honey?) in the aftertaste. I may not be fair in this rating seeing how I now see this is a mead. I’ll re-rate

I thought this was terrible. It had a mild aromoa of cherry and it poured very pale yellow. It seemd to come off as too sweet and had no complexity. I really did not get it!

12 oz bottle-pours a fizzy, quickly dissipating white head and yellow/gold color. Aroma is sweet apple, a little vinegar. Taste is sweet apple cider, faint flat hops. OK carbonation.

(12oz bottle) The good news is getting to try my first beer ever during Passover. The bad news is that I’ve tried three gluten-free beers previously so my expectations are really low. Crystal clear apple juice body with rapidly diminishing off-white head. Aroma is medium sweet, grape, light honey. Taste is medium sweet, grape, some apple, light honey, syrup. Light body with light crispness. The best of the gluten-frees that I’ve tried, but certainly not one to seek out unless you need to avoid grain.

Bottle. This is definitely a mead and not a beer even though the label calls it a beer. Overwhelming carbonation. I like it but I’m probably biased as my son has Celiac and this is one of few beers that he can drink.

Pale Gold with White Ring. Sweet Diluted Honey Aroma. Clean Crisp Mouthfeel. Bittersweet Honey with a Light Dry Hop Aftertaste...Overall Tang Present...Similiar to The Aftertaste From Schweppes Ginger Ale.