Wild Blossom Chocolate Mead

Brewed by Wild Blossom Meadery & Winery
Style: Mead
Chicago, Illinois USA

Thanks to Rayboy and the rest of the League for sharing this mead that I have wanted to try ever since I saw it added to the site. Viscous pale yellow color with no head. Aroma is sweet alc and honey with a little floral nose. Sweet honey flavor with a little too much alc, I really wish that the chocolate was more apparent. Medium viscous body. I am a big fan of this meadery and the guys are absoliutely great that run it, but this one may have missed the mark a little bit. Thanks!

Thanks to the LoSBD for not only putting on DLD (thanks for the clusterf*ck guys), but providing a table to showcase the local meads. This one pours a clear water yellow color. That nose. umm ... I hate to sound ungrateful .. but it is seriously horrible. Nothing but plastic tubing. Rubbing alcohol, rubber. Just terrible. I could only hope that flavors are better, and they are but not by too much. I think only a little of that plastic tubing seeped into the flavor but there was enough sweet honey to back it up. The chocolate is barely noticeable. Only a dry dusting of bakers chocolate just before the finish.

It may be because I was freezing my tuckus off at DLD when I picked this up from the The LoSBD table first thing in thew morning, but this went down great. A chocolate mead? I imagined it was going to be sickeningly sweet, but I liked it. It had a very pale golden body and seemed just a bit thin. The aroma had a light honey sweetness, a soft dried floral scent, and just a touch of chocolate. The chocolate seemed more prominent in the flavor, but it melded well with the dry honey sweetness and lingered into the finish. Interesting.

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pale pale yellow color, no hint of head. aroma: i dunno...fingernail polish? thick honey flavor, with the vaguest hint of chocolate somwhwew in the background. very thick and sweet in the mouth. didn’t catch a lot of chocolate in this mead.

Pale sparkling golden pour...still, no head. The mead has moderately lingering legs when swirled. Very sweet floral/herbal nose with the tiniest hint of chocolate. The flavors are similarly floral/herbal, and definitely honey sweet, with the chocolate well in the background upfront, but coming on strongly in the aftertaste. Very nice dessert type drink.