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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7.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle at home. Pours clear golden, nose is honey, floral, pear, taste is juicy pear, sweet honey. --- Beer merged from original tick of Pear Mead on 22 Jul 2024 at 10:17 - Score: 7
Tried from Bottle on 22 Jul 2024 at 09:19

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Panda at home, thanks to Ed Danlo, 02/07/24. Clear light blonde with a thin white cap that clears to spotting. Nose is herb, straw, grains, light booze, honey, sugars. Taste comprises heather honey, sugars, booze, spice, watermelon, floral tones. Medium bodied with bite, oily feel, semi drying close with a rising alcoholic warmth. Decent enough Mead.
Tried on 02 Jul 2024 at 16:55

7/10
glass at graf 2024 .. golden ...soft sweet floral fruit nose ..big sweet fruit ..b8g sweet sweet floral honey ..big soft
Tried on 16 Jun 2024 at 19:17

6/10
bottle at graf 2024 ...golden ...soft sweet floral honey ..odd herbal white grape ..soft bitter fruit ..very white wine (sweet cicely pod and fliwer6, weedveart yarrow Heather gorse dog rose . rowan flower hawthirn flower elder flower )
Tried from Bottle on 16 Jun 2024 at 19:17

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bag in box at graf. Pours clear golden, nose is honey, grape, taste is sweet, zesty, honey. --- Beer merged from original tick of Gorse Mead on 11 Jun 2024 at 11:57 - Score: 7
Tried on 11 Jun 2024 at 10:57

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bag in box at graf. Pours clear golden, nose is floral, vanilla, honey, taste is sticky honey, floral, light bitterness. --- Beer merged from original tick of Wildflower Mead on 11 Jun 2024 at 11:57 - Score: 7
Tried on 11 Jun 2024 at 10:57

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle at home. Pours clear golden, nose is honey, fiery ginger, floral, taste is similar, sweet. --- Beer merged from original tick of Ginger Mead on 22 Feb 2024 at 10:44 - Score: 7
Tried from Bottle on 22 Feb 2024 at 10:44

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle thanks to Stuu666. Pours still golden amber. Aromas of honey and faint berries. Taste is more of the same. Sweet finish.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Jul 2023 at 10:23

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle thanks to Stuu666. Appearance - clear salmon pink. Nose - more honey than elderberry but something berry comes late. Taste - honey and Berry. Palate - medium bodied and sweet. Overall - decent.
Tried from Bottle on 10 Jul 2023 at 14:15

8/10
Bottle at ashs... Dark golden amber... No head. Soft sweet honey.. Light berries fruit nose.. Juicy honey.. Light dry fruit... Tiny dark fruit.. Juicy honey
Tried from Bottle on 10 Jul 2023 at 14:11