It's Not You, It's Mead (Strawberry)

Clear reddish amber, thin greyish head. Strawberry lemonade syrup, vanilla, milky chocolate & caramel fudge, cranberries, dark honey, light milkfilm sickliness, hazlenut cream. Massive sweet, light tannin bitter. Medium body, dry finish, soft carb.

Sampled from bottle at kermis. Clear reddish amber with thin greyish head. Strawberry lemonade syrup, vanilla, milky chocolate and caramel fudge, cranberries or tannins, dark honey, light milkfilm sickliness, or hazlenut cream. Massive sweet and light tannin bitter. Medium body, bit (tannin) dry in the finish, soft carbonation. Very nice.

8-3-8-3-17 (3.9) Bottle shared at home. Near clear amber red with some small ring bubbles. Pop of the cork on opening and noticeable carbonation. Aroma shows of the strawberries with floral honey notes. When it hits the mouth the aroma characters show up the chocolate and vanilla still with plenty of strawberry but in a lightly decaying way, also cranberry notes developing. The additions unfortunately cover over the honey characteristics a little too much. Flavour is heavy sweet with moderate bitterness behind suggesting the chocolate. Medium to full bodied with a dryness in the finish and an unusual light carbonation.