Hive Mind Brew & Mead Co.
Microbrewery
in Caldicot,
Monmouthshire,
Wales 🏴
Owned by
Wye Valley Meadery
Associated Venue: Hive Mind Brew & Mead Co.
Established in 2018
Hey! We're Kit and Matt. We set up Wye Valley Meadery in 2018 and have been producing a growing range of delicious sparkling and traditional meads ever since. Our experimentation led us to create some beer / mead hybrids and we quickly realised this required further investigation.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at home. Pours deep ruby brown, nose is caramel, honey, smoky, chocolate, taste is similar, sweet, quite thin.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
330ml bottle. Pours dark reddy brown with a large head. Aroma is sweet honey and light smoked leather. Taste is sweet with honey and light smoke. A little watery and short in the mouth.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
330ml bottle at the Salmon, Leicester at 6.3%. Dark brown and opaque with an uneven grey-beige head. Light smoke and some honey notes, with chocokately malts and a little hit of black grape. Sweet taste with touches of honey followed by a light bitterness. Heavily carbonated. Not all that smoked, and not all that honeyed, but a tasty porter nonetheless.
c0axial (8164) ticked Honey & Ginger from Hive Mind Brew & Mead Co. 5 years ago