Mountain Meadows Mead
Meadery in Westwood, California, United States 🇺🇸
Established in 2003
Out of business
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pale, lots of honey aroma and a dash of mushroomy character. Touch of spice up front, and sweet honey, mellow melon notes, and a dash of balsa wood. Good mead. There’s another level but this is solid. Acidity in the finishes, which is like a mandatory thing.
Tried
on 16 Jun 2014
at 18:01
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750mL bottle, courtesy of fiulijn (thanks a lot, Alex), pours a clear blonde with no head. Nose brings out sugary sweet agave nectar and wildflower honey. Flavour is exactly the same, bringing out the wildflower honey upfront and maybe some of the agave, but I can't really tell that apart. Very enjoyable and well-made mead.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 May 2014
at 23:16
5.1/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle, thanks Alex! Dull straw, doesn’t look great. Aroma has some sticky sugars, light florals, dash of gluey phenols. Dryish character, bit of clean lactic, hint of wildflower honey, but not a lot of complexity in this one. Nothing to really jump out and grab me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 May 2014
at 00:58
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle, courtesy of fiulijn (thanks Alex), pours a clear yellow with a tiny white head. Aroma brings out lots of honey, spice, and floral notes. Flavour is rather thin and light for a 10% mead, with spicy notes, floral notes, and spicy honey. Not very complex at all, but somehow easily drinkable for such an ABV. Decent, but not the most invigorating mead.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 May 2014
at 23:25
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Elizabeth Station, Bellingham; synthetic cork; 10% ABV
Measured Final Gravity: 1005
Yellow straw color. The aroma is deep, full of summer flowers, fig twigs, dry weeds, with delicate fruity profile, and a light impression of alcohol. As promised, it’s a semi-dry mead, but the mouthfeel is soft; the flavor is aligned with the aroma, with accent of fig twigs, a bit woody, light vanilla, and an impression of Chardonnay; in the final it has a light tannic bitterness. Short final.
Nice mead, with interesting aroma but more plain flavor.
Measured Final Gravity: 1005
Yellow straw color. The aroma is deep, full of summer flowers, fig twigs, dry weeds, with delicate fruity profile, and a light impression of alcohol. As promised, it’s a semi-dry mead, but the mouthfeel is soft; the flavor is aligned with the aroma, with accent of fig twigs, a bit woody, light vanilla, and an impression of Chardonnay; in the final it has a light tannic bitterness. Short final.
Nice mead, with interesting aroma but more plain flavor.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 May 2014
at 14:52
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at jesprs... Deep brown... Zezty fruits honey nose... Dry honey... Light alcohol... Soft burn... Soft fruits
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2014
at 12:52
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle as Trickster Treat. I need the label for this if anyone has one. Pours gold. No head. Nose and taste of agave, wildflower, honey, vanilla and light spice. Sweet. Medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Mar 2014
at 17:52
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle at Sjätte Tunnan, April 2013. Clear golden/orange with no head. Aroma and taste of light fruit, honey, "white wine" and some light spices. Easy to drink.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Apr 2013
at 01:33
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at Sjätte Tunnan, April 2013. Clear reddish with no head. Aroma of cranberries, honey and almonds. Similar taste. Sweet and dangerously easy to drink.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Apr 2013
at 01:30
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Synthetic cork, 12% ABV
Measured Final Gravity: 1042
Blond color. Indeed this one is a sweet Mead, with lovely, deep notes of freshly cut wood and wood sap, in the aroma and even more in the flavor; tones of musk, of forest; correct acidity; there is a touch of fruits too. Excellent Mead.
Measured Final Gravity: 1042
Blond color. Indeed this one is a sweet Mead, with lovely, deep notes of freshly cut wood and wood sap, in the aroma and even more in the flavor; tones of musk, of forest; correct acidity; there is a touch of fruits too. Excellent Mead.
Tried
on 17 Aug 2012
at 17:54