Schramm's Mead The Heart of Darkness

The Heart of Darkness

 

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

  Mead - Melomel Rotating
Score
8.85
ABV: 14.0% IBU: - Ticks: 39
The Heart of Darkness is our capstone mead, made from hand-harvested estate fruit grown by the Schramm’s. The cherries are of the Schaarbeek variety, an intensely flavorful, European Morello type. The raspberries are Heritage and Latham, grown in Michigan by the Schramm family for three generations, and the black currants are Crandall and Consort. Production is extremely limited, as the amount of care and labor which go into each batch is substantial. This mead is the finest representation of our core commitments to fidelity and quality of ingredients. It pours a deep purple in color, has a dense fruitiness and a mid-palate with considerable tartness and a lingering, balanced finish. Your empty glass will be redolent of the honey component. The Heart of Darkness pairs well with spicy, grilled red meats, high quality dark chocolate, and blue cheeses.

Batch #01
Release Date: 10-11-2013

Batch #02
Release Date: 02-08-2014

Batch #03
Release Date: 02-07-2015

Batch #04
Release Date: 01-17-2016

Batch #05
Release Date: 04-08-2017

Batch #06
Release Date: 09-28-2018

Batch #07
Release Date: 02-21-2019
 

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Tried from Bottle on 29 Apr 2017 at 22:37


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

Bottle - pours purple - nose/taste of cherry, vanilla, honey and black currant - full body. Well balanced and amazing.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Jul 2016 at 00:12


9.4
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 10

Bottle #43. Huge tip of the cap to Randall for sharing this bad boy. Literally looks like a snifter of blood. Honey aromas. Wow, so sweet with the most intense farmhouse berry and cherry highlights. Takes me back to my childhood when we would pick the blackberries off the bush. Loads of melon and honey notes. Soooo dangerous. Very good mouthfeel and body. Exceptional.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Nov 2015 at 00:29


9.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

Bottle shared at Kaapse BAF ’15. Pours like red wine with small purple ring bubbly head. Aroma of rich cherries, dark berries and honey with greatly subdued floral notes. Flavour is light heavy sweet. Full bodied with no carbonation. Really delicious and lives up to its score.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Sep 2015 at 11:02


9

Epic. Bottle. Batch 59. Thanks Chris.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Sep 2015 at 18:06


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

Bottled@Tkrjukoff. Reddish amber colour, no head. Aroma is plum, cherries, honey, some alcohol. Flavour is fruity, some cherries, raspberries, alcoholic notes as well as some quite nutty notes.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Jul 2015 at 02:58


9.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

Bottle @ Steve_0 during my 10k tick fest. Thanks Armin! Pours a deep purple/black appearance with no head. Bright black cherry, raspberry, Belgian dark chocolate, vanilla, honey, apple aroma. Gooey and super thick. Super fucken awesome. All chocolate, black raspberries, black cherries, rich apples. Oh myyyy. This is fucken Jesus Juice. There’s a chance this is ounce for ounce the best booze per ounce every produced.

Tried from Bottle on 09 May 2015 at 21:20


8.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

Bottle thanks to Colin! Pours a clear ruby with no head. The aroma is currants, honey, booze. Thick mouth, jammy rasperries, black cherry, light honey, hides alcohol well, really enjoyed this one.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Mar 2015 at 23:36


9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

Bottle. Pours a clear very deep dark purple with no head whatsoever. Aroma has lots of sweet dark fruit that combines nicely with the honey and has a bit of acid and dryness towards the finish. Flavor full of rich dark fruits with a growing sweetness but a hint of underlying acid adds a bit of bite to round it off perfectly.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Sep 2014 at 15:19


8.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5

Bottle - Rich dark plum, fig, cocoa, tobacco and some spice. Deep black purple. Deep dark fruit, sweet dark berries, chocolate and leather. Sublime and complex. Painfully rare, but worth the wait.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Sep 2014 at 15:13