Schramm's Mead Cranberry

Cranberry

 

Schramm's Mead in Ferndale, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸

  Mead - Melomel Rotating
Score
8.19
ABV: 8.0% IBU: - Ticks: 28
Our Cranberry mead takes the distinct tartness of the earthy, fragrant and penetrating cranberry and matches it with the sweet, yet balanced style for which Schramm’s Mead is known. The pronounced acidity of the fruit demands to be offset by substantial sweetness, and the vast number and throaty nature of the berry’s flavor compounds requires pairing with a complex, full-bodied honey. This mead would make a delicious contribution to any Thanksgiving dinner table – a tart, yet sweet, smooth and easy drinking melomel that will leave you reaching for seconds.
 

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9.1
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9

375 Bottle. Batch 3. Pours an odd pinkish color. The aroma is strong with cranberries, honey and some woodiness. The taste is a big and bold blast of very tart cranberries. The palate is full and just a bit sticky. Finishes long and tart. Overall: The tartness nicely offsets the honey sweetness. This concoction really captures the essence of cranberries.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Nov 2025 at 21:49


9

Unexpected batch 3, just lovely, heavy cranberry juice, but almost no tartness in comparison, just a hint at the finish, perfect balance of honey and cranberry.

Tried from Bottle on 23 May 2025 at 19:59


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle at cafe Sara. Pours clear reddish amber, nose is honey, smoky, cranberry, taste is juicy cranberry, sweet, tart, sticky honey.

Tried from Bottle on 10 May 2024 at 18:00


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Lys brun klar uten skum. Lukter tranebær, lys sirup og honning. Fyldig. Søt. Smaker honning, multer og tranebær. Middels lang.

Tried on 24 Nov 2023 at 22:31


7

Mint, cranberry, sweet, sugary

Tried from Bottle on 21 Jun 2023 at 20:21


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Refrigerated bottle poured into a snifter. Clear red. Aroma is cranberry, medium body, slightly syrupy texture. Taste is carberry and honey.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Sep 2022 at 00:12


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Courtesy of Matt, corked bottle
Red-brown colour, last pour of the bottle, it's cloudy, yes I poured some sediment too. Tart and fruity aroma, sweet, hint of vinegar. Sweet, toothaching, medium tartness, but not well integrated and hardly balancing the sugars, fruit juice, generic berries, table grapes too, and again a note of acetic acid, mostly notable in the finish.
Rich honey, but not as balanced as the best Schramm's, and with an unexpected vinegar note.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Sep 2022 at 08:39


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

375ml @ Ryan's. Appearance: a bit hazy copper with no head. Aroma: fermented honey and some berries. Taste: very sweet, lots of honey, some berries. Overall: a bit weird, but pleasant enough.

Tried on 08 Sep 2022 at 05:32


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Poured from 375mL bottle (batch #4). Hazy reddish orange. Lots of cranberry and honey, very nice balance.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Sep 2022 at 05:30


8.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

375mL bottle, pours a hazy pinkish red with a few bubbles of head. Nose is full of intense gently tart cranberry, followed by plenty of honey nectar. Flavour is full of a wonderful mix of cranberry, bees wax, and honey nectar. Syrupy palate, with intense bees wax and honey nectar. The cranberries are prominent upfront but quickly defer to the intense waxy honey. Lovely stuff.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Sep 2022 at 05:29