Daringa Mead
Vale Brewing in Willunga, South Australia, Australia 🇦🇺
Mead Regular|
Score
6.86
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Grumbo (24387) reviewed Daringa Mead from Vale Brewing 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
6/3/2019. Bottle, sample, courtesy of Danlo, cheers Ed!. Pours dark amber with a red/brown tint and a small bubbly off-white head. Aroma of sweet toffee, cinnamon bun, honey and sultanas bread. Heavy sweetness, medium bitterness and moderate tartness. Full body, sticky texture, soft to flat carbonation. Sharp, acidic finish gives way to a lasting warming cinnamon sweetness. Enjoyed it, would be quite easy to drink too much of this!
danlo (13133) reviewed Daringa Mead from Vale Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
750ml bottle from Dan Murphy, Hurstville. Golden brown colour, no head and aroma of honey, fudge, caramel, sultanas. Taste is sweet, spicy, honey, apple strudel, caramel, cinnamon, warming. Syrupy mouthfeel, medium bodied, low carbonation, drying tannic finish. Quite OK.
SimonF (3322) reviewed Daringa Mead from Vale Brewing 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
(Bottle) Clear golden. Lovely aroma - sweet, honey, floral some vanilla and butter notes. Medium body, slight hint of stickiness. Not too sweet, but clearly honey sweetness. Pleasant balancing acidity. Some complex notes - yeast and butter hints. Very pleasant mead.
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Daringa Mead from Vale Brewing 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled. An amber mead. The aroma has notes of honey and straw. The flavor is sweet with notes of honey and flowers, leading to a dry finish.
hawthorne00 (9781) reviewed Daringa Mead from Vale Brewing 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle, 10C. Copper. Aroma of honey, nutmeg, cinnamon, oregano, vanilla, apples. Flat. Only slightly syrupy. Taste is sweet with prominent apples, lightish honey, lemon, vanilla, nutmeg, some cloves. Alcohol is hidden. Acidity is not all that obvious (to me - I know nothing about mead) but the sweetness doesn’t linger on the palate. Easily enjoyable enough to drink the rest but maybe not in one go.
fonefan (84534) reviewed Daringa Mead from Vale Brewing 12 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle*Clear light to medium yellow orange colour with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy honey, spicy honey. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and light to moderate acidic with a long duration, tart honey, spicy, honey. Body is medium, texture is syrupy, carbonation is flat. [20130224]
yespr (55501) reviewed Daringa Mead from Vale Brewing 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Handbottled. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small bubbly head. Aroma is spiced, medium dry and honey herbal. Smooth sweet, fruity and mild spiced flavoured. Floral and honey. Fruity sweet impression into a medium dry and spiced finish.
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Daringa Mead from Vale Brewing 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Screwtop bottle from Central City Liquor Store, Surrey
Measured Final Gravity: 1021
Amber color, bright. Aroma of mulled cider: stewed apple and cinnamon. Semi sweet mouthfeel; if it has mead flavor, that would be hidden by the spices; it has nevertheless a fresh lemony character, and decent acidity level.
Overall, not a real mead, but a pleasant drink.