Blackberry
Schramm's Mead in Ferndale, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Mead - Melomel Regular|
Score
7.91
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This earthy, brightly acidic mead balances the lingering tartness of whole blackberries and carefully selected honey. Intensely fruity with balanced acidity, a complex flavor profile and an earthy aroma, this mead is reminiscent of picking fruit on a mid-summer day. A strong option for the cellar, blackberry will continue to mature and develop in the bottle for years. Blackberry pairs well with creamy cheeses, duck, and veal.
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8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from De Bierliefhebber. Beautiful blackberry and honey aroma with more dark fruits, blackberry jam. Flavour is sweet and syrupy with some warming booze but not as much as you'd expect.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Feb 2025
at 07:08
9/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9
Bottle pour at Side Project queue. Black with purple haze. Intensive blackberries and honey. Nice smooth texture. Dense and pretty thick.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Nov 2024
at 23:00
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Clear 375ml bottle from Grapevine B&W. Baby Duvel glass @home. Clear, still, black cherry pour with purple highlights & some weak little legs. Smell is veggie, lush honey, deep grape jam with lots of berry skin astringency & a touch of heat. Taste is tart, non-descript berry upfront with a veggie & citrus honey coated middle, becoming vinous astringent with some marzipan on the long tail before the half-hearted earthy attempt to dry out. Too sweet upfront but nicely balanced on the backside. Wife tastes honey wine upfront & grape juice in the back. The blackberry doesn't give me much besides lovely jam to contemplate. Little to indifferent amount of wax, lush to pithy contrast front to back, low heat. Tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Feb 2024
at 00:19
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Intense berry notes in the aroma, hints of honey, sweetness and blackcurrant notes. Taste is not as intense as the aroma.
Tried
on 22 Jun 2023
at 21:30
8/10
Sweet, boozy, fruity. Strong blackberry, honey, a bit tart, smooth. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jun 2023
at 16:20
9/10
12/17/2020, thick jammy blackberry but mellowed out by two years, not entirely sweet as expected but more wine-like! Slight tannic dryness on a lingering tasty finish. Gorgeous.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2023
at 21:09
8.5/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2022
at 22:08
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle pour@Peders, Copenhagen (15/12/2022) - Sweet blackberry prominence, berry skin, further honey and caramel sweetness in support, full bodied, sweet lingering blackberry finish. Beautiful.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2022
at 20:49
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Tap at Billies Kafeteria, Antwerpen. Color is dark ruby with almost no head. Aromas and flavors: Berries, Black berries, blue berries, honey...
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Nov 2022
at 15:39