Ramapo Valley Passover Honey Beer

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

(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.

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.

Pours yellow/gold with a nice white head and minimal carbonation. Smells of honey, nuts, wildflowers and sugar. Tastes mildly bitter and tangy with light honey elements.

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.

"Enjoy this unique creation made with water, molasses, hops, honey and Passover yeast." Actually, I did, but not all that much. I think the honey should’ve been moved up on the ingredient list, but that would have bolstered the ABV more than was apparently intended. You can almost hear the bubbles popping as the initially large head rapidly vanishes. Nice gold color with a continual stream of carbonation. The aroma is honey sweetness with a whiff of a cleansing product. Nice and alive in the mouth. Basically it tasted like a cheap sparkling white wine with a dash of honey tossed in. It does have a nice dry finish.

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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.

Golden coloured with no head. Stinks of honey, way overdone. Way too sweet in mout, like liquid watery honey, and light lemony notes. This is a rather bland mead, if this is what this is. Bottle at the Sunset Grill, Boston, Feb. 11, 2006.

12 oz bottle, well chilled, purchased at my place of employment (City Market, Burlington). Pours an oily, clear light amber-gold with a tiny fizzy head quick-diminishing....simple floral-honey aroma, not unpleasant but rather weak and extremely sweet....fizzy, cidery mouthfeel, flavor is pretty much all honey and a touch of apple, really not bad at all except for the fairly strong mineral-iron quality near the finish...much like a cheap 6-pack-type cider (Woodchuck, Ace et al.), more readily drinkable than any mead I’ve had but without much character or interest.