Monkberry - Lingonberry & Elderberry
Humblebee Meadery in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Mead - Melomel Regular|
Score
5.75
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5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
On tap at brewery. Pours clear pale pink with white head. Aroma has stringent berries and minerals. Flavour has honey, light berries, minerals. It's fine, but nothing too special.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Sep 2024
at 23:29
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Smells like rosemary and tastes like it with a touch of berry in the finish. Odd - unexpected. Base mead is light and simple, vaguely floral.
Tried
on 24 Jun 2024
at 01:02
3.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 4
Can from the New West farmer's market. Kind of a light rosé body with very minimal foam that disappears too quick. Lots of citrusy berry aromas on the nose, very slight mead but too faint. Taste is very musty dog hair with mead notes badly melded with berry. Maybe after seven of these it would subside, but I find it hard to like this balance.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Dec 2021
at 05:05
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
355mL can, pours a clear peachy pink with a small beige head. Aroma reveals tart elderberry and muted honey. Flavour is unusual, with gently tart berries, lots of earthy notes, and a touch of honey sweetness. Doesn't taste anything like a mead. More like a cheap fruity drink of some sort. No good.
--- Beer merged from original tick of Monkberry - Lingonberry & Elderberry on 15 Sep 2024 at 22:38 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5.
Original review text: On tap at Train Wreck, pours a clear pale washed out pink with a small white head. Aroma has some elderflower, floral notes in general, and washed out honey. Flavour is earthy, with plenty of floral notes, earthy elderflower and lightly sweet, fermented out, weak honey notes. Again, more like a flavoured honey alcopop. Poor.
--- Beer merged from original tick of Monkberry - Lingonberry & Elderberry on 15 Sep 2024 at 22:38 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5.
Original review text: On tap at Train Wreck, pours a clear pale washed out pink with a small white head. Aroma has some elderflower, floral notes in general, and washed out honey. Flavour is earthy, with plenty of floral notes, earthy elderflower and lightly sweet, fermented out, weak honey notes. Again, more like a flavoured honey alcopop. Poor.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Feb 2021
at 03:48