Bottle from the brewery (bottled May 2017). Pours a pale white-yellow color with a fizzy, quick dissipating, white head. Like a cocktail more so than a beer or a mead. Like a sweet drink made with gin and some sort of sweet soda like a cream ale. Yeah, gin + cream ale + a quick drizzle of honey, that’s what this is. Very fizzy, soda-like mouthfeel. I’m pro experiment, but this one wasn’t really for me. Way too sweet, and without the beautiful crisp, nuanced flavor that most Melovino Meads possess. Since they only sold a small number of bottle, if you want to try and replicate this at home: 1.5 oz of gin, a can of Dr. Brown’s Cream Soda, and about a five second squeeze from the honey bear should do the trick.

Bottle - pours yellow - nose and taste of honey, vanilla and juniper. Lighter medium body. Sessionable.