bottle at home .. light yellow .. thin sweet honey .. soft sweet ... floral honey ... dry dry honey .. soft fruit .. light florsl fruit .. dry honey finish

Bottle at craig’s. Pours pale golden, nose is musty honey, taste is sweet, sickly, honey, dry finish.

Bottle from Perrys. It pours a still yellow color. The aroma is nice cinnamon and apple with some white wine-like acidity and alcohol. The flavor is sweet and apply with more of the smooth vinous alcohol. The honey is really only tasted in the sweetness. The body is full and oily with most of the flavors disappearing quickly in the finish. Pleasant and tasty but ultimately a bit disappointing.

[1/30/16] Bottle sample at the Encomium bottle share, after RateBeer Best awards ceremony at Hyatt Vineyard Creek Hotel in Santa Rosa. Thanks everyone who shared bottles! Honey, cookies, wood, fruity. Sweet, tart note.

375 ml bottle served in proper glassware, in a candle lit background. (No kidding we lit candles) thanks to Eric S. 2015 vintage. Vintage is 2015. Clear golden mead of course no head. Aroma is great! Smashed apples, mild sugar and just a hint of whiskey. Faint oak.

This MUST have batch variations. For the steep price of $29.95 I really was expecting much more whiskey barrel influence. It does display the apples with plenty of honey. It tastes just like Kurt’s apple Pie. Where is the oak? It’s smooth but so is the Kurt’s Apple Pie for half the price. Yeaaaaah.

375 ml Bottle purchased at the source last year. Doing a cellar clean out for the new year. Mostly clear gold with just a slight haze. Aroma is mostly honey with just a slight hint of vanilla.

Flavor has a powerful wildflower honey with the vanilla bean making a subtle appearance in the back of the sip. Very delicate vanilla with the alcohol completely hidden. This is nice.

Bottle purchased at my local Market Basket. Sat in my basement for close to a year. Time to open... Purple ruby color. Aroma is mild berries with a pretty strong amount of honey.

Flavor has a bit more ancho then I was expecting. Mild blueberry, hint of old lady’s perfume and a good amount of wildflower honey. If the alcohol was toned down it would improve the overall experience.

Bottle. Thanks to CLW/CLT. Still-deep red. A-berries. Ok, currants, some earthy. T-sweet berries, some wood, slight alcohol.

On tap at HopCat A2. Pours a cloudy light yellow with a thin white head that starts at the edges and dissipates completely. Aroma combines sweet and bitter apple with a bit of honey and barrel underlying. Flavor has sweet apple and honey upfront with a growing tartness and barrel underlying.