Pale gold fairly effervesecent. Yeasty aroma with a fruity note along with alcohol. Sweet yeasty flavor

Draught at Sunset Grille on 12/20/2005. Pours a quite clear golden-copper, gentle effervescence rising to create a brief wisp of bubbles and then gone. Very poor legs left behind. Aroma is dry straw, lightly sour/tart yeast notes and a slightly sweet touch of peach and apricot skin. Honey is not overbearing in the nose, perhaps even a bit lacking, adding a light candyish note, although somewhat old/stale it seems. Flavor is not what I would have expected. It is not a ripe, juicy, sugary sweetness from the fruit as some meads will do, but rather a dry, lightly tart and mildly acidic apricot skin-like flavor, mixed with an almost citrus zest like note and a touch of tangy honey and yeast. Touches of hard candy on the end, with dry, tart fruit, but the tartness/dryness leaves an empty feeling as the texture is slightly loose, unremarkable, you might say. Alcohol (such that I am used to) is well-concealed, but that strange tartness thing has a sharp quality to it that rather cuts the palate unpleasantly. I guess they are going for a dry effect overall, but I don’t think a little bit of sweet residual honey or fruit sugars would hurt.