The Rookery Craft Mead

Meadery in Enochdhu, Perth and Kinross, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Established in 2016

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2/3 Stable Cottage, Enochdhu, PH10 7PD, Scotland
Description
Based in Perthshire, Scotland. We try to make light, modern mead with flavours inspired by archaeological finds in Northern Europe. The Rookery looks to evidence in the historical and archæological record for source material, then back-engineers these ancient drinks to create modern and exciting products.

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.

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7.9/10 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.
Tried on 25 May 2016 at 15:07

6.5/10 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.
Tried on 25 May 2016 at 14:52

7.5/10 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
Tried on 11 May 2016 at 06:24

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle at Paisley beer festival 2016... Golden amber.. No head.. Soft strawberry and cream nose... Sweet sweet fruit.. Juicy floral strawberry Bottle ayt home ... golden amber ... thin white lacing ... soft honey .. light soft vanilla fruit .. sweet herbal strawberry ... 3,9
Tried from Bottle on 11 May 2016 at 06:23

6.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
17sbv golden amber.. Thin honey nose... Dry honey.. Light cranberry.. Soft floral fruit
Tried on 11 May 2016 at 06:22

7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Polypin at Paisley beer festival 2016... Golden amber... Soft sweet honey.. Floral fruit nose.. Big sweet honey.. Warming.. Juicy honey... Soft floral honey.. Light ginger Poly pin at SRAF 2016.. Golden... No head.. Soft spiced fruit honey nose... Bog alcohol... Sweet honey... Light spice 3.7
Tried on 11 May 2016 at 06:20

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 9 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Polypin at Paisley beer festival 2016... Massive sweet lavender nose... Nice lavender nose... Sweet honey soft lavender but herval odd finish.. Tk 2 Paisley 2017... Golden.. No head. Jig floral lavender nose.. Soft sweet lavender
Tried on 11 May 2016 at 06:17

6.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Polypin at Paisley beer festival 2016... Golden light yellow... No head... Soft Tart apple... Soft honey... Dry apple... Light honey.. Little almonds
Tried on 11 May 2016 at 06:16

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Polypin at Paisley beer festival 2016... Light Amber thin white lacing... Soft dry honey nose... Very dry.. Honey.. Floral fruit.. Oily fruit... Lught herbal fruit
Tried on 11 May 2016 at 06:16