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.
Scopey (25115) reviewed Crab Apple Cyzer from The Rookery Craft Mead 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
From bottle. It pours clear pale gold. The aroma is quite bright, fruity, tangy apple, juicy and soft honey. The taste is dry, bitter - sweet, juicy, tangy, loads of apple, touch of tartness apple skin, soft honey and bit alcohol warmth with a drying finish. Medium body and oily mouth - feel. Quite an interesting mix.
Sigmund (14587) reviewed Lavender Mead from The Rookery Craft Mead 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Shared 350 ml bottle, from Aberdeen Country fair. Golden colour. Intense aroma and flavour of lavender and honey. Way too much lavender. Lavender in mead is not a particularly good idea. Not in beer either, by the way. Lavender belongs in soap and perfume.Sorry, won't buy again. Sweet Jebus, this is gross.
Holmen_1 (14547) reviewed Lavender Mead from The Rookery Craft Mead 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2.5
0,35 flaske på RBHD-samling, Bjørnøy jan-18: klar gylden uten skum. Sterkt parfymert aroma og smak med lavendel først og sist. Honningsødmen greier ikke å balansere. Boudoir and toilet cleanser. Extremely one-dimentional. Good grief.
Holmen2 (8836) reviewed Lavender Mead from The Rookery Craft Mead 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2
Shared bottle at RB/HD at Bjørnøy 26.01.18. Perfumy aroma of lavender, sweet gale and toilet cleaning agent. Similar and resiny taste, including the toilet cleaning agent. Lavender: go away!
FinnIckler (1000) reviewed Spruce Mead from The Rookery Craft Mead 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Taster at grassmarket. Nose is spruce, zesty lemon, floral honey. Palate is strong herbal, a bit of zest. Heavy finish. A bit better than the normal, but still crazy strong.
FinnIckler (1000) reviewed Mead - Medium from The Rookery Craft Mead 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Taster at grassmarket. Nose is floral honey, heather, medicine. Palate is very heavy honey, almost like a koronny, but not as smooth. Too much for me.
daniele (14510) reviewed Mead - Medium from The Rookery Craft Mead 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
bottle oro limpido miele piuttosto intenso sulfuri lieve vinoso abbastanza dolce
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Raspberry Mead from The Rookery Craft Mead 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Sampled @ GBBF 2017, Day 1. A clear light orange yellow colour. Aroma of sweet cherries and raspberries, honey. Taste of strong honey, quite sweet, alcohol.
minutemat (16258) reviewed Spruce Mead from The Rookery Craft Mead 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Sample @ GBBF ’17. Pours very pale yellow. Aroma is strong alcohol, spruce. Taste is honey-sweet, prominent alcohol with some pine, spruce, floral notes. Full-on.
cagarvie (40076) reviewed Sloe Mead from The Rookery Craft Mead 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
17 poly pin at Glasgow... Light golden yellow y... No head... Soft sweet light floral honey.. Tiny custardy tones nose.. Soft sweet floral honey.. Again tiny vanilla custardy tones.. Tiniest spice finish