Madeline
(has 7 batches)
Schramm's Mead in Ferndale, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
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Score
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 courtesy of linusb. Rating 4000 if I add my backlog to my current total. A coincident but extremely happy a Schramms mead is my 4000th rating on this great site. Pours viscous deep bluish red leaving some prominent legs on the glass while dissipating. Smell is heavy fruity with honey, black raspberries, blackberries, butterscotch, moist soil, liquorice root, leather, minerals and alcohol. Taste is sweet, sour and heavy fruity. Mouthfeel is round, oily, sticky sweet, tart, tiny boozy and medium to full bodied. Finish is sweet and sour with honey, black raspberries, fleshy sweet blackberries, black currants, leather, moist soil and alcohol. This is good. Really good. But somehow I’m still dissappointed. Tasty fruited mead but lacking in depth for a Schrammesque score. Sweet blackberry/raspberry jam with a very high acidity in the back. I’m in no way a boysenberry expert and this might just be the case of a berry that doesn’t suit me as well as raspberries, currants or cherries.Re-rate! 1st birthday. I experience this as much rounder and balanced than the first batch I tried. The honey sweetness and berry tartness and astringency seems more balanced. Round and delicious!
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from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2015
at 15:53