Silver Birch Mead

The Rookery Craft Mead in Enochdhu, Perth and Kinross, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Mead - Metheglin Regular

Score

7.28

ABV: 17.0%

IBU: -

Ticks: 3

Silver birch sap is tapped on the estate on which the Rookery sits and it is brewed with honey to give a warming and unique mead. Drawing from archaeological evidence from the Machrie Moor site on the Isle of Arran, this mead gives toasted malt and light nuttiness. As the silver birch sap is fairly low in fermentable sugars, it is replacing the water, rather than the honey (boiled down, birch sap makes a lovely, honey-like syrup – you just need loads of it).

This mead makes a fine accompaniment to a range of foods, but it is particularly fine chilled with a cheeseboard.

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7.9

Stuu (34926) reviewed Silver Birch Mead from The Rookery Craft Mead 10 months ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at ash's. Pours clear pale golden, nose is honey, pine, syrup, toffee, taste is sticky honey, juicy, sweet, nutty, burnt toffee in the finish. 3.9 --- Beer merged from original tick of Silver Birch on 20 Jan 2025 at 14:57 - Score: 8. Original review text: Bottle at ash's. Pours clear pale golden, nose is honey, pine, syrup, toffee, taste is sticky honey, juicy, sweet, nutty, burnt toffee in the finish. 3.9

Tried on 01 Feb 2025 at 10:42

8.1

cagarvie (39800) reviewed Silver Birch Mead from The Rookery Craft Mead 10 months ago

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

bottle at ashs ...golden ...no head ..soft dry floral honey ..dry oily honey ...hints of elderflower ...soft sweet oily fruit apricot ...soft sweet

Tried from Bottle on 20 Jan 2025 at 15:00

7.6

McCash (15986) reviewed Silver Birch Mead from The Rookery Craft Mead 10 months ago

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

Bottle thanks to Stuu.
Appearance - bright, golden yellow.
Nose - honey for sure, maple syrup (not sure what birch sap is like).
Taste - wood, maple and honey. Dried apricot or peach.
Palate - full bodied, rich texture, sweet and then dry on the finish.
Overall - good stuff!

Tried from Bottle on 20 Jan 2025 at 14:58