5.5

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

On tap at Zymarium, pours a clear pale golden orange with a tiny white head. Nose is dry, with totally fermented out honey and a light champagne-like effervescence. Flavour is bone dry and spritzy, with fermented out honey that's barely detectable as honey and a club soda-like character. Dry and ultimately boring but fine.

8

Huge gusher, glad I didn't open it downstairs on the rug! It's bubbly as heck, light honey flavor, mostly dry fun.

8.1

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

Champagne glass pour plus a taster at the source. Slightly hazy, not quite settled. Unassuming, pale gold, tight foam. Delicate citrus nose, grass, iron, slight fresh geranium. Minerally, soft lemon, yeasty, mousse, tight bubbles, light pith on the tail. I thought it wasn't really zero dry but the mazer said there was some oak in there to round it out. Racking this for a couple years to settle would probably be lovely. Great.

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Hazy, effervescent, fairly dry, light florals, orangey. The fizz is odd in a mead, but not bad. Just different.