Mead, Honey Wine,
Alright, so, this is the part where I talk about the meads I've tried personally. This is all my personal opinion, so take it or leave it. It's also a nice way for me to keep track of what I liked and what I didn't, since I have a bad case of CRS syndrome.Also, I rate my meads out of 5 Pooh's. Deal.
Without further ado:
| Redstone Meadery | ||
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 Redstone Traditional Mead | Overall I liked it. It was more of a dry mead, with a distinctive flavor to it, being made with an orange blossom honey. It also had a decidedly wine-grape aroma and taste to it. Served warm it was pretty good, but I find that it was also extremely good served chilled. Does have an acid edge to it though. |  4 Poohs |
| Redstone Meadery | ||
|---|---|---|
 Redstone Sunshine Nectar | Carbonated apricot melomel. Nice, light apricot aroma, but hard to make out the honey from it. Goes down very well, leaving a nice flavor and distinct apricot aftertaste. Overall, very enjoyable. |  4.5 Poohs |
| Redstone Meadery | ||
|---|---|---|
 Redstone Black Raspberry Nectar | Carbonated black raspberry melomel. Dark, very strong aromatic black raspberry tones. A touch of bitterness offsets the sweetness well. Very enjoyable going down and leaves a nice black raspberry taste in your mouth. I really liked it. | 4.5 Poohs |
| Bargetto Winery | ||
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 Chaucer's Mead | Chaucer's is to Mead, what Gekkeikan is to Sake. It's a very nice, simple, well rounded mead. It comes with spices that you can use in conjunction with heating to make a nice mulled mead. I find that if you use the spices, you have to be very careful about how long you let them steep and how high the heat goes, but if done correctly, the spices create a nice accent. Too long, however, and it can make it very acid and bitter. Served without the spices it's got a nice aroma and goes down well, a medium mead. Served chilled it's got a little bit of a kick to it still, but it's definately good. A nice standby. | 3.5 Poohs |
| Bunratty Mead and Liquor | ||
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 Bunratty Mead | I honestly didn't like the bunratty all that much. Not to say it was bad or anything, but the label on my bottle at least read "White Wine with Honey" and I could tell. That's exactly what it tasted like, a dry white wine with some honey added. It did have a nice aroma, but going down it reminded me of like a chardonnay or something. Cold it was a little nicer. Like I said, not bad or anything, and I may have been biased, hoping for something more like a traditional mead, so it's not for me. | 2.5 Poohs |
| Lurgashall Winery | ||
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 Lurgashall Vintage Mead | The image to the left is a question mark, because bugger me if I know where to find another bottle of what I had. It appears to be some kind of Lurgashall bottled specifically for the USA, and it said "Vintage 2003" on it, but besides the fact that it was lurgashall and it was mead, not much else was clear. Regardless, it was a decent mead. Very sweet and the aroma is a real kick in the face, almost cloying. Tastes just like it smells. Not much variation between serving it warm or cold. If you want a strong honey taste, this is a good choice. | 4 Poohs |