Madeline
Schramm's Mead in Ferndale, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
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Schramm’s Madeline is our boysenberry mead, made with whole boysenberries and Michigan honey. A cross between European raspberry, common blackberry and American dewberry, the boysenberry has a unique tannic flavor which combines wonderfully with carefully selected premium honey. The resulting mead is thick, jammy and extremely flavorful and pours dark purple with a very smooth, lightly tart finish. This mead is a tribute to our favorite, tiny release to date, Madeline June Schramm Naeger. Ten percent of sales of this mead are donated to the Royal Oak Beaumont NICU, where Madeline spent nearly the first three months of her life. She was beautiful when she was born, but we know she will continue to mature beautifully with age.
Batch #01 – Released 2015
Release Date: 08-01-2015
Batch #02 – 1st Birthday
Release Date: 04-09-2016
Batch #03 – 2nd Birthday
Release Date: 05-06-2017
Batch #04 – 3rd Birthday
Release Date: 05-05-2018
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8.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
Sampled from the tap at the meadary. Pours a deep dark purple with a hint of a pink head that starts and remains at the edges. Aroma is full of dry, semi tart boysenberry and supported by dry honey. Flavor is sweeter with boysenberry and semi sweet honey supporting.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Nov 2017
at 16:18
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle 375ml. corked - clear glass @ [ Radikal Whale slaying Tasting ] - Thessaloniki, Greece. [ As Schramm’s Madeline ].Clear dark red colour with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate to heavy honey, cherry, boysenberry, floral. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a long duration, boysenberry, honey, alcohol, raspberry - blackberry, tart berries, very intensen berries. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20170429] 7-3-8-4-16
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Sep 2017
at 01:56
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle thanks to torrey. Pours out red purple color. Nose is very nice berries sun screen alcohol and some sweetness. Taste is more of the berries booze and honey sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Aug 2017
at 22:47
9/10
Amazing! Lightly tart black/rasp/blueberry/currant/raisin/red grape/brown sugar; light almond/vanilla/leather. Sweet; slight acid/tannins.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jun 2017
at 20:06
10/10
Tried
on 11 Jun 2017
at 15:08
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
375 ml bottle @ Radikal whale slaying, Thessaloniki. Thanks Anton! Dark red color with no head. Fruity aroma, tart berries, floral, honey. Moderate sweet and light acidic taste like aroma. Full silky oily body with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2017
at 10:17
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle at the radikal whale slaying. Thnx to Anton. Pours very dark and deep red. Smell is intense fruity, bit sweet.Taste is full, silky, very, very fruity. Super intense. Silky mf. You don’t feel the booze. the fruityness isn’t complex, but the fruit is complex (bet you’ll read that scentence twice) . very nice mead !
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Apr 2017
at 17:04
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8
Batch 2 bottle shared by ygtbsm94 on 10/8/16, thanks Brad!
Deep, burgundy-tinged cherry liquid is bright, clear and shows good viscosity.
The nose is full of lusciously decadent fruit sugars, with strong, balancing acidity. Notes of blueberry, cherry, cranberry and vanilla all provide complexity, as it doesn’t just smell of straight boysenberry. As with their other meads, the alcohol is well-concealed and the mead is clean. Definitely rich, but the acidity easily balances it and leaves it enjoyable.
In the mouth, it’s equally well-balanced, of course sweet and decadent, but with a big, bright acidity boasting of fruit seed, tart juices and rich, concentrated sugars providing a honey-vanilla-like character. Tannin and acidity linger together on an ultra-soft, comforting palate. Little/no alcohol noted, certainly not what would be expected for its size. Impeccably clean and surprisingly drinkable.
Deep, burgundy-tinged cherry liquid is bright, clear and shows good viscosity.
The nose is full of lusciously decadent fruit sugars, with strong, balancing acidity. Notes of blueberry, cherry, cranberry and vanilla all provide complexity, as it doesn’t just smell of straight boysenberry. As with their other meads, the alcohol is well-concealed and the mead is clean. Definitely rich, but the acidity easily balances it and leaves it enjoyable.
In the mouth, it’s equally well-balanced, of course sweet and decadent, but with a big, bright acidity boasting of fruit seed, tart juices and rich, concentrated sugars providing a honey-vanilla-like character. Tannin and acidity linger together on an ultra-soft, comforting palate. Little/no alcohol noted, certainly not what would be expected for its size. Impeccably clean and surprisingly drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Oct 2016
at 12:37
9.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 9.5
1st birthday. Tall thin 375 corked bottle pours with a deep purple to deep ruby red body that tosses up thick stumpy legginess. The aroma just pulses with jammy fresh bowl of boysenberry and then getting into thin honey and booze notes. Wow! The taste delivers decedent, I’m not worthy, yumminess from front to back. To midway a wafer thin layer of fruit skin tannin tartness peaks it’s ahead above the sea of rich smooth jammy fruity and honey sweetness. This just goes and goes and doesn’t let up until you think you can’t take it anymore but you don’t want to. . . you can’t stop. Wow!
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Oct 2016
at 21:23
10/10
Wes you legend. Ebs whale.
Tried
on 22 Aug 2016
at 02:06