Retire by the Fire
Charm City Meadworks in Baltimore, Maryland, United States 🇺🇸
Mead Regular|
Score
6.50
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Get that fire started with a refreshing mead that features vanilla, cocoa nibs, and clove. It's sure to keep you warm all winter long. This is our winter seasonal.
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8/10
Light gold pour. Sweet milky taste of vanilla and apple. Clove and vanilla tasting palate. Pretty smooth and easy
Tried
on 18 Jul 2020
at 01:20
6.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Honey, clove nose. Clear pale yellow. Dry honey, cardamom, yeast, clove. Light body, easy carbonation, warm. Tasteful spicing. I would like to have seen a stronger vanilla presence.
Tried
on 18 Jul 2020
at 01:18
7/10
Clear gold bod thin wht head. Spicy floral herbal arma. Spicy herbal flav. Med bod mod carb. 7/3/7/3/14 3.4
Tried
from Can
on 31 Dec 2019
at 22:51
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Can from Wine Warehouse. I don't know why I bought this - I've disliked everything else I've had by them. Fizzy gold pour, white head. Aroma is light apple, light honey, light dust, light vanilla. Flavor is effing weird. Cheap chocolate candy, light vanilla, hint of apply, hint of honey. Not a good flavor combo. No more from this meadery. EDITING TO ADD: this is going down the drain. Halfway through and I can't take it anymore. Dropping the score even lower.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Jan 2019
at 01:09
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
12oz can at the RateBeer DC Cider tasting. Poured a very pale yellow color, mostly still. Aroma was light smoke notes, smoked apples. Fire roasted light charred notes. Flavor was light honey, sweet apple notes. Interesting.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Dec 2016
at 13:06
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Can at the RateBeer DC Cider tasting. Clear whitish yellow. Aromas of smoke, grains. Tastes of grains, light apple, honey, smoke. Light body with a dry finish.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Dec 2016
at 23:15
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
From a bottle at the RB cider tasting December 2016. Pours A crystal clear with a scant head. Minty honey flavor. Flavors of clove. Woof.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Dec 2016
at 17:43
6.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
12oz can from CBC H Street pours a clear gold with basically no head. Nose has plenty of clove, cinnamon and vanilla, honey and perfume too, some candlewax. There’s an earthy note which must be the cocoa. Flavor is sweet, earthy, a little soil, honey, clove is big here, vanilla, a little cream soda. Finishes sweet. Interesting.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Dec 2016
at 10:30
6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sampled on draft this mead poured a very pale yellow color with a large foamy white head that faded quickly and left no lacing. The aroma was honey, butterscotch and cacao. The flavor was tart with honey, orange blossom, faint butterscotch and cacao. Medium length finish. Medium body and smooth. Decent.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Mar 2016
at 13:53
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft at Brew House No. 16. Clear pale yellow, moderate bubbles, see pic with menu for verification. Aroma of rosemary and clove nice spiced flavor, cinnamon and clove. Delicious.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Jan 2016
at 14:42