Great Bear

Arktos Meadery in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸

Mead - Melomel Rotating

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6.91

ABV: 18.0%

IBU: -

Ticks: 2

The hunt is over...at least for the night. You’ve followed the trail of the Great Bear and now you too can take part in the feast. As the bones of the Bear lie in wait, taste from our cup and enjoy the dry, fruitful notes of the Bear’s mead. Let this Oak Aged Black Raspberry Melomel carry you along as you wait for the chase to recommence with the coming of another sun. The Great Bear can hide but only as long as it takes for the hunt to resume.

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6.5

mcberko (47051) reviewed Great Bear from Arktos Meadery 5 years ago

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

On tap at Arktos, pours a deep dark mahogany with a tiny purple head. Aroma is loaded with intense raspberries, with buried honey sweetness - the sweetness seems to come from the fruit - there's some pronounced pithiness too. Flavour is surprisingly dry for such a high ABV mead, with lots of dry, pithy raspberries, lots of booze, and fermented out honey. I'd prefer a little more residual sugar here to bring out the raspberries. Hot and boozy, but fun.

Tried from Draft on 08 Mar 2020 at 04:19

superspak (10163) ticked Great Bear from Arktos Meadery 9 years ago

Damn good. Med honey sweetness; tart black raspberry/oak/vanilla/floral. Drying tannic oak finish/light lingering acidity.Warming but smooth --- Beer merged from original tick of Arktos Great Bear on 11 Jun 2016 at 18:36 - Score: 8. Original review text:

Tried on 11 Jun 2016 at 22:10