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Bottle pour at Boernerf. Pours clear deep red. Deep cherries and honey on the nose. Flavour has a deep and light honeycomb sweetness and a lovely red cherry fruitiness. Rich and deep, fantastic.

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Pour at Boerenerf, pours a deep dark mahogany, no head. Aroma is full of rich, deep cherries and decadent honey notes. Flavour is super rich, with intense cherry liqueur, decadent honey, and light vanilla. Wonderful honey and cherry character. Lovely.

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Bottle. Clear deep red, oily. Lots of berry in the aroma, cherry and generic red berries, some honey and oxidation. Sort of spiced. Full-bodied and warming, sweet, oily. Cherry and generic red berries, some honey and sweetness in the flavor. Lasting finish. Quite delicious this one. Nice funky hint too. 250131

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BYG. Deep red color. Aroma and flavor is cherry, honey, oxidation, spices, red berries. Nice.

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Borefts 2024. A clear purple red colour, no head. Aroma of intense honey, red berries. Taste of heavy sweet honey, raspberries, sugar, sticky finish.

bottle at Borefts 2024 Friday ...deep red brown ...sweet sweet honey fruit nose ...big sweet honey ..big soft sweet honey fruit ..big berries

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

20/IX/24 - on tap @ Borefts Day 1, Brouwerij De Molen (Bodegraven), BB: n/a (2024-960) Thanks to the Brewver crew for sharing today’s beers!

Clear deep ruby beer, no head. Aroma: oh my, that’s a lot of floral honey all right, lovely smell! MF: no carbon, medium to full body. Taste: all honey, nothing else, just lots and lots of really nice, high quality honey. Aftertaste: more honey, just honey and that’s it!

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Intensiver kirschiger Geruch und Beginn. Vollmundig, angenehme Süße, Honig, vollmundig, rund. 10/13/11/11/9/11

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

10 cl sample from bottle @ Bøker og Børst. Beautiful blood red body without any head. Aroma of honey and cherry. I like the idea behind Schaarbeekse cherry and lambic in combination with a mead, but frankly I think it taste basically like sweet honey with cherry and some acidity. By all means, this is a nice dessert drink with no doubt high quality ingredients, but objective wise it tastes like honey and cherry. Nothing I could drink a lot of, but interesting to have a sample.

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One of Boerenerf's several unconventional blends is this Ambrosia, basically a mead 'diluted' with 10% lambic and macerated with sour cherries - of the renowned Schaarbeekse variety, no less. Obviously headless, deep ruby red liquid with slight purplish tinge and the consistency of a full-bodied red wine - in fact looking a lot like a glass of full-bodied red wine. Strong aroma of aged dark honey, concentrated sweet cherry juice or even (natural) syrup, slight background woodiness from the cherry stones and probably the lambic but lambic features otherwise remain very subtle (though when warming up, something remotely 'sweaty' is noticeable), hints of pomegranate, 'cuberdons', wine gums, hard candy honey, touch of fresh varnish faraway in the background. Dense, sweet, utterly fruity onset, like reduced and concentrated sweet cherry juice even if in reality sour cherries were used - I guess the mead's own sweetness engulfs the fruit and truly brings out its fleshiness; mild side notes of lemon, red apple, blue plum and pomegranate accompany a non-carbonated, very vinous, almost oily body in which this deep, aged honey flavour adds its typical and unmistakable aroma retronasally, while cherry pit tannins and a subtle tartness from both the lambic and the fruit steer things to a somewhat more dryish finish - even though there too, that indulgent honey sweetness remains inescapable. A soothing glow of warming, deeply red wine-like alcohol ensues, tying all the flavours together. Even non-mead lovers, like my neighbour, liked this beverage right from the first sip: though inherently less accessible than it seems at first glance, it is difficult to dislike this creation - its warm, fruity, vinous sweetness is almost a guarantee for love at first sight. This is how I can certainly appreciate a mead (or semi-mead) every now and then.