Lord Jim
Schramm's Mead in Ferndale, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Mead - Metheglin Regular|
Score
7.50
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Our first release of a barrel aged mead, Lord Jim represents an evolution of flavor for Schramm’s Ginger mead. Aged for four months in hand-selected bourbon barrels, Lord Jim typifies pure ginger root and floral honey accompanied by notes of vanilla, oak and creme brulee with a hint of smooth bourbon. The added complexity from the barrel aging process rounds out and smooths the spiciness of the ginger to create a warm and extremely flavorful mead.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Overwhelming ginger sweet honey. Rich and sweet but not that interesting to be honest
Tried
on 16 May 2025
at 12:32
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
From 375 bottle. Appearance is a sort of a copper-rose color. The aroma is quite strong with some ginger and oak barrel. The flavor, like the aroma, is ginger, honey, and oak barrel. Somehow all these flavors come together quite nicely. The oak barrel provides a bit of bitterness to off-set the honey. The palate is full. Finishes long and sticky. Overall: decent mead. much enjoyed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 May 2025
at 21:29
8.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle from Niemuth's, 9/26/24. Aroma of honey, ginger, whisky, oak. Taste is honey, ginger, whisky, oak. Well balanced, no heat. Delicious.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jan 2025
at 09:19
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle sample at a Yana's tasting at Sahar's place. Batch #8. Clear golden. Honey, flowers, ginger, vanilla, wood, sweet, spicy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jun 2023
at 13:35
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Flaska från USA. Osäker på batch, men troligtvis 7 eller däromkring. Klar blekguldig. Kryddig i doften med snygg nötighet från honungen. Kryddigheten från ingefäran gifter sig riktigt snyggt med bourbonfatet i smaken. Förvånansvärt mycket fräschör. Finns en viss blommighet, nästan lite lavendel, en touch av ananas. Längre ner lite creme brulée och vanilj-toner. Rena och klara smaker, friskt och gott, väl avvägt och elegant.
Tried
on 19 May 2023
at 08:22
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours clear pale golden, no head, no lacing. Aroma is ginger, bourbon, field honey. Flavor is medium plus sweet, nice ginger heat, field flowers. Merlin body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Oct 2021
at 04:52
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Sampled from the tap at the meadary. Pours a clear light gold with no head whatsoever. Aroma has a good amount of honey and bourbon with s hint of flora. Flavor has sweet honey with bourbon and hint of dryness.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Nov 2017
at 16:42
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Batch 1 bottle courtesy of Linus. Clear pale golden pour leaving some pronounced legs on the glass with a swirl. Nose-tingling ginger & fresh American oak nose. Moist soil & hints of damp moss. Very light floral honey & vanilla hard candy. Sweet, spicy & earthy taste. Round, slightly viscous & oily mouthfeel. Very balanced with ginger, honey & barrel all playing their parts in harmony. Light very suiting barrel mellowness which impressed me. Very nice! --- Beer merged from original tick of Schramm's Lord Jim on 29 Apr 2017 at 20:49 - Score: 9. Original review text: Nose-tingling ginger & fresh wood. Moist soil & damp moss. Very light honey & vanilla. Sweet, spicy & earthy taste. Round & oily mouthfeel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2017
at 02:57