B. Nektar Meadery The Dude's Rug

The Dude's Rug

 

B. Nektar Meadery in Ferndale, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸

  Cider - Spiced Regular
Score
6.65
ABV: 5.9% IBU: - Ticks: 73
Appearance - Dark amber and clear with a foamy white head that dissipates into a thin white rim.

Aroma - Sweet, fresh apples with notes of cinnamon, clove, cardamom, ginger and raisin.

Experience - Sweet, baked apples followed by a vivid blend of clove and cardamom. Black tea rounds out the flavor and leaves little to no tannin. Medium-bodied with a crisp, red apple skin aftertaste.

The Dude's Rug really Chai'd the room together.
 

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6.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Aromas are chai spices of cinnamon, nutmeg and clove on top of a little apple. Flavors are similar to nose with clove coming out more. Sweet tart with a little bitter. Kind of an interesting idea and not bad but I don't know if I'd get another

Tried from Can at Bodega Brew Pub, Inc. on 10 Jan 2025 at 20:13


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Can from 604. Goblet @home. Dirty lemon iced tea pour. Touch of lace. Lots of cinnamon, lots of ginger, tea & honey. Tart, sweet lemon tea clone with dusty cinnamon, candied ginger & very faint vanilla. Dusty, sharp, oily, thin. Not terrible.

Tried from Can on 17 Dec 2022 at 03:52


7

Reminds me of this superstition mead they did with cloves and weird winter spices, except this isn't overly sweet, it's mellow chai notes, slight sweet finish, fun stuff.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Jul 2020 at 22:54


7.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Bottle shared at home. Almost clear light brown with small off white head. Cinnamon, cloves, swee tdd apple, don't get much tea but it really has some winter spices going on with some chai. Flowery, red apple, more aromatic spices. Medium sweet, under medium tart and very light bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. Pretty nice winter cider.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Mar 2020 at 23:02

gave a cheers!

7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle. Pours a clear, ruby color, with a small, beige head. The nose is ginger, clover honey, vanilla, apricot, and strong cloves. Very sweet and boozy, with a bit of spice. Fun and well made.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Feb 2020 at 04:47


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Tap. Pours clear dark brown with a small offwhitish head. Aromas of cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, sweet apples, light honey-like notes. Taste has the same heavy spices with a more sweet backnote of apples and an almost berry-like flavour. Way too spicy for me.

Tried from Draft on 06 Nov 2019 at 16:55

gave a cheers!

8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Tap at Craft Covent Garden. Really tied the room together. Aroma is spicy, chai, cinnamon, fruity, medicinal/herbal. Taste is nice, much less spicy, rich apples, little bit of honey sweetness, some other fruitiness, feels like cherry maybe. Apple fritters!! That's it!! Very nice.

Tried from Draft on 09 Sep 2019 at 16:03

gave a cheers!

7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

On tap at Craft Room, Opatovina, Zagreb. Hazy amber to copper, small off-white head. Spicy mulled wine aroma, dark tea, dried fruit, zesty, nutmeg. Beneath there's a baked apple aroma, wine-like fruity character. Flavour is spicy apple or wine, warming feeling, cinnamon. Moderate to high carbonation. Interesting.

Tried from Draft on 27 Apr 2019 at 20:13

gave a cheers!

7

Clear amber brown bod no head. Spicy floral herbal honey arma. Spicy herbal floral apple flav. Med bod low carb. 7/3/7/4/15 3.6

Tried from Bottle on 09 Dec 2018 at 22:41


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

A clear dark amber cider with a thin white head. In aroma, sweet fruity caramel apples with loads of cinnamon, cardamom, nice and smooth. In mouth, a nice sweet apple jam chai tea notes, cardamom, hibiscus, light citrus pulp, very nice and complex. On tap at Bar Lupulus.

Tried from Draft on 23 Jul 2018 at 21:20

gave a cheers!