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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6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bag in box at graf 2017. Pours pale golden, nose is honey, toffee, floral, taste is sticky honey, floral, drym --- Beer merged from original tick of Sloe Mead on 12 Jul 2017 at 08:12 - Score: 7

Tried on 24 Jun 2017 at 02:48


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bag in box at graf 2017. Pours golden, nose is lavender, floral, honey, taste is lavender, soapy, gingerbread. --- Beer merged from original tick of Lavender Mead on 12 Jul 2017 at 08:00 - Score: 7

Tried on 23 Jun 2017 at 07:40


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at Craigs cons 2017- 06-17 Edinburgh AR: honey, spruces, minty AP: pale yellow, no head F: minty, honey sweetness, warming feeling - fresh!

Tried from Bottle on 21 Jun 2017 at 16:42


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

175ml glass at the Cambridge Beer Festival, 2017. Light gold. Scent of lavender and nettles. Almost perfect but there’s a slight plastic note taking it down a notch or two. Sweet and herbal taste. Long honeyed finish with strong alcohol. One problem I have with mead is the often thin palate, but this is thick and gooey. It’s incredible.

Tried on 25 May 2017 at 06:53


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle at Paisley beer festival 2017... Golden yellow... Thin white lacing... Bitter peppery fruits nose... Soft honey fruits.. Long soft honey.. Light mint... Floral fruits.. Tiny toothpaste.. But generally more clean garden mint

Tried from Bottle on 22 Apr 2017 at 09:00


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle at Paisley beer festival 2017... Light on pink... No head.. Soft dry fruit... Light herbal cherry fruits... Light soft fruits... Not fruity enough for me.. But a solid mead... Tk2 bottle at Paisley beer festival 2017.. For stella... Light pink.. Soft sweet honey fruits nose... 3.7

Tried from Bottle on 22 Apr 2017 at 08:59


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

17abv... Bottle at Paisley beer festival 2017... Light yellow... Soft dry herbal honey nose.. Soft herbal fruit.. Little custardy.. Floral honey ... Odd and not really working for me (lime honey... Heather.. Meadow sweet, dog rose(rosehip flower) tk 2 for stella.. With massive thsnks to random steward for putting hid finger on why i dont likrbit... Its a massive buttery popcorn finish

Tried from Bottle on 22 Apr 2017 at 08:59


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

17abv poly pin at the Paisley beer festival 2017... Light pink.... No head.. Soft raspberry fruits nose... Juicy sweet floral honey.. Light dry fruits.. Tiny tart raspberry

Tried on 22 Apr 2017 at 08:59


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at praf 2017. Pours clear golden, nose is honey, twiggy, floral, lavender, taste is juicy honey, twiggy, light spices, floral. --- Beer merged from original tick of Midsummer Mead on 13 May 2017 at 09:55 - Score: 7

Tried from Bottle on 21 Apr 2017 at 04:30


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5

Bag in a box at praf 2017. Pours clear pinkish, nose is herbal, honey, berries, taste is sweet, floral, raspberry, honey --- Beer merged from original tick of Raspberry Mead on 13 May 2017 at 09:54 - Score: 7

Tried on 21 Apr 2017 at 04:30