Schramm's Mead A Smile of Fortune

A Smile of Fortune

 

Schramm's Mead in Ferndale, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸

  Mead - Melomel Rotating
Score
8.70
ABV: 14.0% IBU: - Ticks: 63
A Smile of Fortune is a dark fruit melomel containing Black Currants, Lutowka Cherries, Heritage Red Raspberries and Oregon Boysenberries. Intensely bold fruits balance their tart, tannic, and acidic flavors with the sweetness of high quality, responsibly sourced honey. Fortune truly smiled upon this mixed fruit melomel, and we are grateful for the result. Pairs beautifully with fresh young cheeses, pork, or chocolate. Batch #01 Release Date: 12-17-2016 Batch #02 Release Date: 12-30-2017
 

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9

Subdued tartness compared to fresh, or maybe just a super delicious batch. Still jammy but the cherry jumps out and the fruit bomb is smoooooooth

Tried from Bottle on 01 Jan 2023 at 10:45


9

Medium body, sweet, boozy, super fruity. Black currants, raspberry, cherry, some other red berries. Rich, a bit tart, unending aftertaste. Fantastic.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Dec 2022 at 21:32


8.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle kindly shared by Beathe and Tommy. Dark reddish amber body with almost no head. Strong, almost intense aroma of red berries like cherry, black current, strawberries, mature berries, almond and honey almost in the background. Taste is really sweet with the berries dominating as in the aroma, spiced with almond and then the honey becoming more prominent after a few more sips. Full bodied with long lasting aftertaste. Wonderful and delicate mead with a fine balance between the berries and the honey. Too sweet to drink much of these, but wonderful for a few sips and it actually alco went very well in combination with dry, salt ham.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Oct 2022 at 21:22


9

Still think this is a contender for my favorite schramms. So good, packs tons of sweet honey vibes, berry vibes galore. Can't wait to try batch 2 I picked up in April.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Aug 2022 at 21:24


9.5
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

Bottle. Deepest purple color. Aroma is all the berry goodness, blackberries, cassis, raspberries. Taste is all the berry goodness, gloriously luscious. Oily mouthfeel, flat. So rich, so luscious, so balanced. Masterpiece!

Tried from Bottle on 02 Jul 2022 at 20:20


9
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

Bottle, nose is cherry, strawberry, currants, raspberry, honey, Taste is sweet raspberry, blackberry, cherry. Sooooo drinkable.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Jun 2022 at 01:09


9.2
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

Bottle, 375 ml, shared with Zec, JFK10000, Max and Miro B at Miro's Grande 2022. Dark red with no head. Intensive cherries and berries. Quite sweet. Bit tart. Easy drinkable for abv. Batch 5.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Mar 2022 at 20:25


10

Gefeliciteerd aan mij. Not normal this. Hou een sop. Does normaal!!112233 Kappenâh.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Jul 2021 at 22:11


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

375ml from BD Union Sq. It pours darkest purple with minimal head. The aroma is slick, oily, heavy, juicy, tangy, blackberry jam, blackcurrant, slick, oily, hot jam, fruit compote, fruit coridal, oak, boozey sting, splash of acidity and tang. The taste is a slick, oily, juicy, bitter - sweet, sticky, so crazy juicy, cherry, rapsberry, strawberry, jammy, crisp red apple, jam rolly polly, victoria sponge cake, bramble jam, puckering, jam donut and some boozey heat through the finish. Fulsome body and moderate carbonation. Filthy.

Tried on 04 Jul 2021 at 13:31


Tried on 27 Jun 2021 at 00:35