The Statement
Schramm's Mead in Ferndale, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Mead - Melomel Regular|
Score
8.23
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The Statement is our balaton cherry mead – made with the highest quality Traverse City balaton cherries, carefully selected honey and twenty years of experience – having gone through more than a dozen iterations. Living up to it’s name, this mead truly makes a statement due to its incredible expression and depth of flavor and character rendered from honey and Michigan tart cherries. A natural complement to chocolate and sharp or blue cheeses, The Statement also pairs well with grilled pork, and makes a terrific reduction sauce for desserts.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Color: Dark red. Aroma: Yart and sweet dark cherries, some honey. Taste: Light to moderate tart and medium sweet dark red cherries, concentrated cherry-juice, hints of honey. Slightly boozy and a little more honey at finish. Bit sirupy, sticky. Full body. The cherry is overwhelming the honey too much for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jun 2019
at 19:11
8.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle shared at THT April ‘19. Deep red with a small off white head. Aroma of big cherry and floral honey. Flavour is heavy sweet. Full bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Apr 2019
at 22:43
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Tht april. Bottle. Ruby red with white head. Sweet red fruits, massive cherry, marzipan, red currant, massive honey, cherry bubblegum. 🍒 🐝 Big sweet and moderate bitter. Tart edges. Full body and soft carbonation. --- Beer merged from original tick of The Statement on 06 May 2019 at 18:46 - Score: 9
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Apr 2019
at 21:00
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Sampled at THT April. Big bottle. Deep ruby with no head. Sweet honey, obviously. Lots of ssweet and sour red fruits, creamy honey, sweet cherries, marzipan, all kinds of red berries and sweet fruit jam. Very sweet, light tart. Full bodied. Amazing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Apr 2019
at 20:56
7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
Pours extremely dark reddish. Smell is very cherry forward. Taste is intense, thick, cherries madness. Too much cherries to me, mead gets kinda lost.
Tried
on 02 Feb 2019
at 00:53
9.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
375mL bottle shared by Stacey on 1/2/19. Beautiful maroon/magenta, cherry-red, almost glossy with high clarity. Hot damn! That smells like the best Balaton cherries Ive ever smelled AND it has the honey richness, light phenol and other yeast notes that were somewhat lacking in A Smile of Fortune's nose. Ok. So I finally get why Schramm's is so hyped. If they only made this mead it would be enough. No alcohol and meaty, juicy, tart, rich, well- attenuated cherries linger on perfectly. The flavor delivers as well. Holy shit. This is so intensely and beautifully flavorful without any excess. No syrup or big sugar, no alcohol and with balanced acidity. Soft and succulent. Well...damn. Schramm's you finally got me. 10/5/9/5/19 Bottle at Schramm's, 11/29/24. Singular focus, intensity and bright, floral, waxy, vanilla-laced fruit. Amazing balance and not thickly syrupy or excessively sugary. I think the 4.8 I gave it previously is, maybe, a bit too high, though I could be very wrong. The Statements are my favorite line from them.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jan 2019
at 01:52
10/10
Tried
on 19 Dec 2018
at 22:05
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
375ml bottle @ 9k tasting. Deep dark reddish, sweet and heavy with honey notes, loads of sweet cherries and earthiness. Dry and vinous finish. Quite smooth and complex.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Oct 2018
at 16:18
9/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Oct 2018
at 23:01
8.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottleshare @ Yggdrasil Brewing pre-open. Deep red pour, flat. Full on cherries in the nose, light booze and deep cherry jam. Light honey coming out later. Tastes sweet, cherry jam, intense and rich with some alcohol warmth in the finish. Smooth and hardcore cherries. Totally enjoyable. Light tart dry finish. Tasty tasty tasty!
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Oct 2018
at 14:57