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
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
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
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
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
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

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


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

70cl bottle sample, thanks Rich.
Couleur pâle avec un léger rosé (effet framboise), huileux sur le verre.
Arôme est mielleux - organique, léger fruité de la framboise offrant ce bouquet arbuste et baies sauvages avec un rétro-nasal du miel qui adouci le tout.
Palais est boozy, les 17% sont clairement présents. Caractère doux mielleux organique avec une petite note de framboise dont un léger fini acidulé/terreux classique de la framboise qui reste plutôt faiblard. Cela a déjà le mérite d'utiliser du fruit entier. Le tout reste réchauffant en bouche, fini note un peu acétique/nail polish alcoolisé sans dénaturer le tout. L'effet collant aux lèvres retrouvé dans certains autres hydromels est ici en retrait.

Tried from Bottle on 04 May 2023 at 13:30


6.5
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

70cl bottle sample, thanks Rich.
Couleur pâle oscillant vers l'ambre, huileux au verre.
Arôme sur un bouquet mielleux avec de fins effluves de booze prenant en rétro-nasal. Note un peu de country-pie, fleur d'orangée, caramel.
Palais est doux mielleux avec un léger fini caramel et de suite un côté organique mielleux en retrait. Je note un léger fruité rappelant la pomme
Le corps est assez léger sans le côté un peu épais/huileux. Le côté booze des 17% est assez présent et en devient dominant avec un fini herbacé. Fini sur un léger résiduel sucré - caramel avec un retrait fleuri. Très léger en bouche mais avec un effet réchauffant des 17% qui revient en fin de bouche.

Tried from Bottle on 04 May 2023 at 13:01


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle in the grassmarket. Pours golden, nose is floral, some berries, honey, little funk, taste is similar. --- Beer merged from original tick of Hedgerow Mead on 16 Mar 2023 at 17:28 - Score: 7

Tried from Bottle on 16 Mar 2023 at 17:28


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at home. Pours clear golden, nose is honey, elderflower, toffee, taste is similar, prickly, sweet. --- Beer merged from original tick of Elderflower Mead on 24 Oct 2022 at 10:51 - Score: 7

Tried from Bottle on 24 Oct 2022 at 09:51


Meadery Stats
Score 6.89
Meads24
Ticks106