Black Agnes
(has 16 batches)
Schramm's Mead in Ferndale, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Mead - Melomel Rotating|
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8.56
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Our sweet black currant mead, Black Agnes, is named after one boisterous Scottish wench who successfully defended the Scottish Castle of Dunbar during a five-month siege by William Montague, the Earl of Salisbury. While relatively unknown in the United States, black currants have been grown in the British Isles for more than five hundred years, and used by herbalists since the Middle Ages. Sharply tart and acidic, the potent flavors of the fruit are perfectly balanced by the sweetness of premium honey to create a particularly unique, memorable and delicious mead.
Batch # - Release Date
#01- 03-08-2014
#02 - 08-02-2014
#03 - 04-15-2015
#04 - 01-30-2016
#05 - 06-01-2016
#06 - 08-06-2016
#07 - 07-26-2017
#08 - 10-21-2017
#09 - 01-17-2019
#10 - 10-31-2019
Batch # - Release Date
#01- 03-08-2014
#02 - 08-02-2014
#03 - 04-15-2015
#04 - 01-30-2016
#05 - 06-01-2016
#06 - 08-06-2016
#07 - 07-26-2017
#08 - 10-21-2017
#09 - 01-17-2019
#10 - 10-31-2019
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9.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 9
Sampler. Pours darkest red. Aroma is red fruit, berry, blackberry, some earth. Body is sweet and heavy and sticky, super fruity, blackberry, also honey and flowers, sour. Incredibly intense and balanced and drinkable. Long sweet berry palate. Amazing how such a thick viscous fluid can be so drinkable. Great!
Tried
from Can
on 02 Oct 2017
at 11:35
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8
Sampled at Best Western Woerden, courtesy of SinH4, thanks a lot Stefan! Clear, very dark red. Sweetish, quite fruity aroma of honey, raspberry and redcurrant. Intensely sweet, rather fruity taste of honey, redcurrant and raspberry, followed by a long, intensely sweet and slightly warming finish. Full body, oily mouthfeel, flat. Great stuff, very intense and delicious!
Tried
on 29 Sep 2017
at 17:04
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle sample, many many thanks Benzai! Dark purple color with no head. Aroma is intense csssis, blackcurrant, just a bit of honey, a touch herbal, cinnamon, syrupy, very concentrated. Taste is blackcurrant at first, then the honey character takes over, with all the forest flavours, flowery, apples, tannic warming finish, some spicy earthy flavours as well. Thick viscous mouthfeel with no carbonation. Long aftertaste of blackcurrant. Awesomesauce!
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Sep 2017
at 15:59
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from trade, sample shared @ Borefts Hotelroom with SinH4. Cheers Stefan! Insane deep dark red to purple color, no head. Aroma reminds me of dark syrupy concentrated blueberry or blackberry juice. Tastes a bit like that as well. Mixed with honey, notes of apple, forest fruit. Nice!
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Sep 2017
at 15:59
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
A deep dark burgundy red mead with aroma of dark fruits, plums, red grapeskins, candy sugar, alcohol warmth, very nice. In mouth, a rich beautiful mead with honey, dark fruits, plums, light maple, grape juice, alcohol warmth, very nice and delicious. Bottle at Pushkinwows New squirter inauguration.
Tried
from Can
on 26 May 2017
at 20:17
9.2/10
TST. Dense deep burgundy/no head. Huuuge black currant. Sweet dark honey. So much fruit, so rich. Light spices, rosemary. Massive sweet, light nutty bitter. Full body, no carbonation, silky supple. So densely fruity it’s insane, rest is floral dark honey.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Mar 2017
at 22:39