Madeline
(has 7 batches)
Schramm's Mead in Ferndale, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
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8.50
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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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8.5/10
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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
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle generously shared by somebody at the Mongers throwdown. Pours a reddish purple color. A huge sweet oak and berry nose. Very sugary sweet, no heat, light tart berries but mostly just core juicy sugary berries. Amazing. So damn good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jul 2016
at 01:23
9.3/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
375ml bottle shared at ML Fontainas, 3ième fête de la St Jean, shared with Rlgk and _Angst_. Huge thanks to Alex for this generous offering. De couleur pourpre, doré au verre laissant un reflet finement rouge sur les rebords. Arôme est généreux, puissant avec un bouquet frais et organique de miel mais un rétro finement suret de baies rouges. Le tout est rondement bien mené, complexe laissant augurer des effluves mêlant fine acidité fruité et côté plus sauvage du miel. Palais est réchauffant, fruité de baies rouge, certaine épaisseur en bouche avec un profil laissant échapper une fine acidité, petite douceur terreuse de fraise, framboise, acidité de mûre et autres baies au nom qui m’est souvent nouveau. Surprenant à tous les niveaux surtout dans la manière dont le miel se marie avec le fruité qui est ici très varié.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jun 2016
at 09:05
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle shared. Dark dark red with no head. Aroma is red wine like but with spice, red fruits, raspberry and honey/floral aspects. Flavour is heavy sweet. Full bodied with a thick chewy mouthfeel and soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Apr 2016
at 14:50