Red / Black Skull - Raspberry Salty Licuorice Melomel
Sahtipaja in Sätila, Västra Götaland, Sweden 🇸🇪
Mead - Melomel Regular|
Score
7.55
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Lci
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
(Sample @ Erik's tasting, Stockholm, July 13/19) Pours clear deep red with no head. Notes of sweet raspberries balanced with quite a solid kick of salty licorice, ample slightly floral woodsy honey notes, fairly high sweetness overall and long raspberry and salt licorice aftertaste. Full sticky to oily body, still. A bit challenging as a flavour combination but I actually quite enjoyed it.
Bottle sample. A clear reddish brown colour. Aroma of sweet cherries, raspberry, vanilla, honey. Taste of sweet strawberries, vanilla, honey, caramel, lacto, nice!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Süßer Beginn. Honig, rote Beeren, süffig fruchtig, viel Honig ohne zu süß zu sein. Hohe Süffigkeit, mittellanger Nachhall. Nett! 10/11/10/11//11
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Sahtipaja tasting @ kwartje. Bottle. Dark chestnut and white ring head. Big sweet honey and rusty old raspberries, big sweet and light bitter. Full body and low carbonation. Sweet and massive fruity? Softer than the regular red skull but less outspoken raspberries. Don’t really taste the licorice aromawise but it has a mildening effect on the booziness. Lovely.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle sample, many thanks to Nische! Deep ruby color with no head. Aroma is salty liquorice and raspberries indeed, deep honey. Taste is raspberry, liquorice, full blown forest honey too, a bit sticky and muted on your tongue, really a bit weird, but well-made. Oily mouthfeel, flat. Very interesting, but not sure if it's a great Mead.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Red ruddy brown. Vineous grape, licorice root or fennel, sweet berries, light bubblegum, interesting.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at home. Dark red, still of course. Sweetened raspberries, salty liquorice, quite a kick of boozy sweet honey. The salty and sweet don't go together completely for me.