Samuel Adams Honey Queen

Honey Queen

 

Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸

  Mead - Braggot Rotating
Score
6.27
ABV: 7.5% IBU: 10 Ticks: 30
A Braggot, historically a harmonious blend of mead and beer, gained notice during medieval times and dates back as far as the 12th century. The combination of three unique honeys and the complexity of the hops and chamomile in this braggot style beer create a whimsical brew that is floral with a tart sweetness and a much awaited honey finish. Praise to the queen bee and her colony for this refreshing and satisfying brew.
 

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6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6.5
Clear golden coloured body with a nice, rich, four centimetre tall, almost pure-white head. Aroma of honey, flowers, grapes, light perfume and a touch of yeast noticeable. Medium-bodied; Strong honey and malt flavours up front with a airy and grassy flavour that comes through with a bready and yeast flavour near the end. Aftertaste has a very mild sour kick, but the honey and sweetness is evident at the tail end, with a touch too much carbonation and effervescence to battle through. Overall, not a horrible beer, and slightly assertive and aggressive, but worth trying you want to sample a braggot/mead and still stay relatively mainstream. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Costco in Arlington (Pentagon City), Virginia on 28-June-2015 for US$5,59 sampled at home after staying up all night on 15-September-2015.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Sep 2015 at 00:10

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 2 Overall 7.5
Honey, caramel, lemon, and dandelion nose. Hazy amber, thick head, good lacing. Sweet honey, not super strong, and little hop character. Light and watery. Obvious honey presence, but more beer than mead.
Tried on 09 Aug 2015 at 20:22

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
Bottle. Golden yellow with large white foamy head, faint honey aroma, medium carbonation, slightly sweet taste with medium long finish, lingering honey aftertaste. Nice and sweetly smooth.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Jul 2015 at 18:31

2/10
Tried on 15 May 2015 at 20:12

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
NE Bucket List Trip Beer #97. 24 ounce bottle from I Like That, Portsmouth, NH. Pours a slightly hazy yellow with a medium sized frothy off-white head. Good head retention. Aroma of nuts, honey, floral notes, citrus, apple. The taste is honey, apples, floral notes, nuts. Medium bodied.
Tried from Bottle on 21 Feb 2015 at 20:14

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
on tap @Max’s Balt-thin white-yellow/gold. A-lt malt-honey, citrus. T-sweet lt malt-honey, 2nd citrus/spice hops. Med body-syrupy.
Tried from Draft on 05 Oct 2014 at 08:11

7/10
Tried on 22 Sep 2014 at 10:37

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Big bottle web SB cons 2014-09-18 Göteborg AR: roasted malt, rustic bread, when poured sweet and cardboard box AP: wee hazy coppery, wee white deminishing head F: rich carbonation, sugary feeling, robust late in season floral honey, wee alcholic feeling, wee tuttifrutti/caramel, I’m pretty found of this kind of honey and also the tuttifrutti...
Tried from Bottle on 18 Sep 2014 at 11:37

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Bottle thanks to _angst_, sampled on September 16, 2014.Clear golden color, fizzy white head. Spicy, floral, grainy, sweet, honey scent. Sweet, sugary, sorbitol, sweetener taste. Sweetener aftertaste, like suketter (e.g. sweet n low) in cold tea. Fizzy mouthfeel, very low bitterness. Turns a bit cloying, should have some bitterness to balance all the sweetness, for my taste that is. Smells a lot better than it taste.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Sep 2014 at 01:48

6.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bomber bought through Systembolaget. Pours clear golden with a frothy offwhite head that leaves lots of trace on the glass while dissipating. Smell is sweet and tiny malty with sweet white bread, honey, dried papaya, chamomile, grass, soil and lemon zest. Taste is very sweet and tiny malty with white bread, tons of honey, chamomile, grass, soil and lemon zest. Mouthfeel is round, sticky sweet and medium bodied. Finish is sweet with white bread, honey, chamomile, soil and lemon zest. Reminds me alot of honey-sweetened herbal tea. Too sweet to be truly enjoyable.
Tried on 16 Sep 2014 at 11:33