At the Rookery, the fermentable in all our recipes is honey and we never use sugars or syrups. All the flavourings are high-quality ingredients and never artificial flavourings. Most of our meads use hand-foraged ingredients, concentrating on Scottish native species such as meadwort, heather, silver birch sap, crab-apples and a range of hedgerow berries.
Stuu (34926) reviewed Mint Mead from The Rookery Craft Mead 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at praf 2017. Pours clear golden, nose is minty, honey, spruce, taste is herbal pine, juicy honey, light mint, garden peas. --- Beer merged from original tick of Mint Mead on 13 May 2017 at 09:54 - Score: 7
Stuu (34926) reviewed Wild Cherry Mead from The Rookery Craft Mead 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at praf 2017. Pours clear reddish, nose is honey, cherry, taste is similar, herbal, pine. --- Beer merged from original tick of Wild Cherry Mead on 13 May 2017 at 09:53 - Score: 7
Scopey (25061) reviewed Lavender Mead from The Rookery Craft Mead 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle in Pitlochry. It pours a clear gold. The aroma is soft, fresh, sweet, floral, lavender and parma violets. The taste is soft, mellow, bright, sweet, honey, lavender, parma violets, sherbet and slight acidity. Medium body and light alcohol warmth. Nice balance. Pretty tasty stuff overall.
Stuu (34926) reviewed Crab Apple Cyzer from The Rookery Craft Mead 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bag in box at sraf 2016. Pours clear pale golden, nose is light apple and honey, taste is quite dry, harsh, honey, sweet sweet apple. --- Beer merged from original tick of Crab Apple Cyzer on 11 Jul 2016 at 08:06 - Score: 6. Original review text: Bag in box at sraf 2016. Pours clear pale golden, nose is light apple and honey, taste is quite dry, harsh, honey, sweet apple.
Stuu (34926) reviewed Midwinter Mead from The Rookery Craft Mead 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bag in box at sraf 2016. Pours clear golden, nose is honey, ginger, light spice, taste is similar, dry finishm --- Beer merged from original tick of Midwinter Mead on 11 Jul 2016 at 08:06 - Score: 8. Original review text: Bag in box at sraf 2016. Pours clear golden, nose is honey, ginger, light spice, taste is similar, dry finish. best thing at the *ale* fest
Stuu (34926) reviewed Spruce Mead from The Rookery Craft Mead 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at craig’s. Pours clear golden, nose is spruce, pine, honey, taste is similar, lots of pine, dry. --- Beer merged from original tick of Spruce Mead on 09 Jun 2016 at 07:36 - Score: 7. Original review text: Bottle at craig’s. Pours clear golden, nose is spruce, pine, honey, taste is similar, lots of pine, dry.
allmyvinyl (20966) reviewed Spruce Mead from The Rookery Craft Mead 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle at Craigs. Pours clear golden with no head. Aromas of honey and strong herbal notes, pine. Taste is boozy, more herbs, slightly medicinal.
jjsint (8566) reviewed Spruce Mead from The Rookery Craft Mead 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
125ml glass at the 2016 Cambridge Beer Festival. Light gold, clear. Honey and naked alcohol on the aroma. Taste, oh dear Lord. Herbal, sweet and crazy alcoholic. Medicinal bittersweet taste. Ambrosial.
jjsint (8566) reviewed Crab Apple Cyzer from The Rookery Craft Mead 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
125ml at the Cambridge Beer Festival. Light gold, clear and thin. Alcohol and sour apple on the nose. Intense alcohol in the sweet burning taste. Oh God help me, did not realise this is 17%. Anyway. Thin body, alcoholic warming aftertaste. A bit much of a muchness but ultimately enjoyable.
cagarvie (39800) reviewed Ginger Mead from The Rookery Craft Mead 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
All 17abv.. Golden amber... No head.. Soft sweet honey.. Light ginger nose.. Soft sweet floral honey.. Long ginger... Dry ginger.. Nice soft warming easy
