La Hire
Pips Meadery in Gurnee, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Mead - Melomel Regular|
Score
8.09
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Cranberry Mead made with Orange Blossom Honey.
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8/10
375ml (thx, Shane!). After MBCC 2025 spontaneous session for beered out people.
A lot of honey, cranberries. Taste is intense with honey and berries, tannic. Very tart and sweet. Nice!
8☆3☆9☆5☆17》42
A lot of honey, cranberries. Taste is intense with honey and berries, tannic. Very tart and sweet. Nice!
8☆3☆9☆5☆17》42
Tried
on 24 May 2025
at 23:50
8.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Dark amber, some slight sediment. Sweet smell, quite some honey still, light tart berry. Real thick body, sticky, some light alcohol. Taste is heavy sweet at first, but a great tartness quickly lightens that. Super intense cranberry, some oaky tannins. The flavour intensity is magnificent, just a shame that it's still so very sweet. Maybe just a tad too intense for me.
Tried
on 30 Apr 2022
at 22:00
9/10
Sweet, cranberries, honey, very nice stuff
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Mar 2022
at 17:12
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours realy dark purple to brown. Scent is full, bit petrol, smooth alcohol. Raw honey. Taste is full, sweet, honey, some alcohol. Rediculously smooth , some red fruits, mild fruit tannins.
Tried
on 29 Nov 2021
at 10:54
9.6/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9.5
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 9.5
Pours dark reddish purple. Smell is full, very intense, fruity, full on natural honey, syrupy. Taste is full, syrupy, sweet, very intense natural honey, very balanced, juicy, sugary but not too sweet due to the balance brought in by the fruit acidity. Extremely nice, which seems to be a given in pips.
Tried
on 03 Nov 2019
at 19:30
9/10
Tried
on 18 Oct 2019
at 22:16
8/10
THT October. Murky red. Sweet red currant and honey. Big sweet fruity and honey. Massive sweet and light bitter. Full body and soft carbonation. Massive fruity mead. Congratulations to kermis’s 20K+1! 😛
Tried
from Bottle
at
Brouwerij Kwartje HQ
on 18 Oct 2019
at 21:25
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle at THT October. Murky red. Sweet red currant and honey. Big sweet fruity and honey. Massive sweet and light bitter. Full body and soft carbonation. Massive fruity mead. Congratulations to kermis’s 20K+1! 😛
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Oct 2019
at 21:25
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled at THT October. Hazy ruby to light purple. Cranberry, lots of sweet flowery honey, light flowers, bees, 🐝, 🌸, tart berries, more honey. Very sweet, almost medium sour. Full sugary bodied. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Oct 2019
at 21:18
8.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Dark red purple with a ring pink head. Aroma of floral honey, cranberry and orange. Flavour is heavy sweet. Full bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Oct 2019
at 21:16