Ramapo Valley Passover Honey Beer

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

12 oz. bottle. Pours a clear, pale gold with a fizzy head that disappeared quickly. As the beer was poured, it reminded me more of a glass of soda than a glass of beer, or mead in this case, including the effervescent, fizzy head. Trace aroma of honey and yeast. The flavor reminded me of lychee nut soda. As the beer warmed, the honey flavor became more pronounced, but by then I had already decided I wasn’t going to be finishing this one. Down the drain it goes!

This is mead so let me think of other meads I’ve had. This one is on the watery side but its has a sweet candy honey flavor that reminds me of those plastic honey treats they sell in Amish country. It doesn’t have a very smooth palate and is rather wet. I could probably drink this beer in one sip. It reminds me of woodchuck. And I was scared with how quickly the cap flew off. If they added more carbonation and depth to this beer, it would rock but gotta follow the religious holiday rules and have something for people allergic to gluten, eh? I can’t finish this product at the moment-it seems too sweet and molassy.

Thanks to Degarth. Pours a deep golden color, white head that dissapears. Aroma reminds me of a mead. First taste this is gross, it taste like a weak ass mead. Just vial, the slight nasty sweetness is gross, it actually leaves a very warming alcohol feel in my body, this beer is starting to scare me. You couldn’t get me to drink this again it’s really grossing me out. Total drain pour.

Cold 12oz bottle: Pours a clear golden orange color with a moderate amount of fizzy ivory bubbles mostly around the edges. Aroma and taste are of honey, subtle yeast, molasses and light fruits. Very carbonated and effervescent. Bubbly and sweet ending.

Bottle: Clear golden color with a thin white head, huge sweet honey aroma, starts and ends very sweet and sour, thin bodied, sharp explosive carbonation, ends with a lingering sweetness.

The aroma is sweet with plenty of honey and a little bit of yeast. The appearance is pale gold with a LARGE white head. The flavor is sweet from honey with some citrus and sour elements. The palate is thin but not unlike most meads. Shalom.

Thanks to Degarth for this one. Medium tan with almost no head....just like a Jewish housewife in Florida lol! Aroma of honey, model glue, slight caramel malt. The taste was astringent, very tart, with slight fruit, hopcitrus, and some tangy yeasty notes. It stayed tart and sour and never really resonated with my palate.

New in town. Bottle from Beer World of Largo. <!-- P --> Aroma is very faint and comprises of a mostly sweet, but mainly indiscernible, smell. Looks a little meadish with its still golden body, but works up a very un-mead like head that gets a full pinky thick before fading away quickly. Plain and watery fore is followed by some chemically tart sweetness. Finish is sour and dry. Tastes like a still, cheaply made, champagne. Really not up my alley.