5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Taster @ GBBF 2017, [ Great British Beer Festival 2017 ], London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX.[ As The Rookery Raspberry Mead ].Clear light to medium red yellow colour with virtually no head. Aroma is honey, alcohol, light raspberry, light sweet raspberry. Flavor is moderate sweet with a long duration, honey, alcohol, tart raspberry notes. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is flat, finish feel is warming and light alcoholic. [20170808] 6-2-6-3-12
Tried
on 31 Mar 2019
at 13:23
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at cgarvieuk. Appearance - pale yellow and clear. Nose - a hint of pine, but wild floral honey is main note. Taste - sweet floral honey again. Palate - full bodied and rich through middle and finish. Overall - lovely.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2019
at 18:12
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Clear golden color with no head. Aroma is aromatic honey, spruce indeed, some solvents. Taste is beeswax, candlewax, forest honey, on the sweet side, some spruce with some lime-herbal flavours. Oily mouthfeel, flat. Supremely well-hidden ABV.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Mar 2019
at 18:42
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle: Poured a clear with no head. Aroma is nice spruce berry with honey. Taste is nice fruit light woods, and smooth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Dec 2018
at 16:43
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle in the grassmarlet. Pours golden, nose is honey, beeswax, taste is sweet, juicy, honey. --- Beer merged from original tick of Mead on 07 Nov 2018 at 08:10 - Score: 7
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Nov 2018
at 12:12
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at cgarvieuk's. Pours clear gold. Aroma is honey, mead, spruce, citrus, flowers. Body is heavy, but not super sweet, lots of flowers and spruce and citrus and menthols indeed. A bit artificial. Not greatly balanced, but not bad either.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2018
at 21:20
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle at Craigs, opaque pale yellow color, aroma of spruce, glue and honey, flavor of spruce, spice and honey that gets stronger in time and some candy, quite sweet but not over the top. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Oct 2018
at 07:50
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the GBBF 2018 day 1 07/08/2018. A clear golden yellow coloured pour with a no head. Aroma is woody SWeet honey, meaty honey. Flavour is composed of semi sweet tangy honey, raspberry, leafy, burnt honey.. Warming solvent, honey.. Palate is semi sweet, alcohol..
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Aug 2018
at 19:55
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Polypin at GBBF 2018. It pours clear oily yellow with no head. The aroma is sweet, oily, honey, umami, tart, vinous, raspberry leaf and honeycake. The taste is slick, oily, tangy raspberry, during, oaky, dull solvent, raspberry leaf, honeycake, tannin and fruit tea with a tangy fruit finish. Medium body and slick mouth - feel. Interesting tart raspberry vibe.
Tried
on 07 Aug 2018
at 18:39
6/10
Tried
on 07 Aug 2018
at 18:37