8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
375 ml bottle. Batch 5. Pours a honey gold color. The aroma is soft and faint with apple peel. The taste is honey and apples-both sweet and tart. The palate is full and viscous. Finishes long and sweet with lingering honey. Overall: Very nice--reminds me of some Canadian ice ciders..
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Oct 2025
at 23:16
8.5/10
The apple tastes great and balances the honey brilliantly, but I prefer the fruits of the other ones.
Tried
on 13 Oct 2025
at 19:31
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
375ml bottle. Batch 2. Pours a honey gold color. The aroma is light with apple peel and some deftly applied spices that I cannot pick out positively. The taste is honey, apples, mild spices, and something tart. The palate is full an d coats the mouth well. Finishes long and semi-sweet/semi-tart. Overall: Decent mead, but the spices throw it off for me a bit, I would prefer I more pure apple.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Oct 2025
at 01:02
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Poured from 375mL bottle (thanks for the leftover mcberko). Clear-ish dark ruby red. Huge raspberry nose, jammy honey raspberry taste. Great.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2025
at 07:44
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
375 Bottle. Batch 4. Pours an opaque reddish purple. Aroma is cherries, oak barrel and a trace of vanilla. The taste is tart cherries in the forefront with woodsy oak barrel, some whiskey and a trace of vanilla. The palate is full and coats the mouth well. Overall: Awesome Sauce!
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Oct 2025
at 16:51
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
375 bottle. Batch 2. Pours a murky amber color. The aroma is quite strong with honey and more honey. Very rich honey aroma. The taste, as in the aroma, honey, some light herbs, a bit of floral and rock candy. The palate is full and viscous. Finishes long with lingering rock candy and a bit of scotch. Overall: decent fer sure. But I'd prefer their sunflowers and Leatherwood.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Sep 2025
at 23:36
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9
375 Bottle. Batch 2. Pours an opaque deep dark purple color. The aroma is strong with cherries and more cherries--very rich cherry flavor. The flavor, like the aroma, is a study in lutowka cherries with a nice bit of tannin complexity and a bit of tartness. The palate is full and coats the mouth well. Finishes absurdly long with lingering tart cherries. Overall: Awesome sauce. Paired will with an English Cheddar
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Sep 2025
at 14:46
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Batch 11 bottle at the brewery, 11/29/24. Deep currant-black cherry. Clear. Bright, maybe not as sweet and intense on the honey side as expected with a surprising levity from bright fruit juice and acid. Lovely blend with cherry leading the way. Black pepper, vanilla and lingering medium amounts of honey intensity. No alcohol. Very focused, high clarity nose. Surprisingly not dense in the mouth, or at least not densely honeyed. The fruit is there in droves. But maybe a blend of fruits is a little less interesting to me than I realized, as I found myself being more captivated by the single varietal stuff. Of course this is still no slouch and I'm pleasantly surprised it's not a syrupy sugar bomb. Imagine being disappointed by this due only to the just unreal-high expectations and hype.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Schramm’s Mead
on 26 Sep 2025
at 13:51
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9
Batch 1 375mL bottle shared by Adam Chandler on 9/20/25.
Clear.
Nose is funky and floral. Juicy honey, with weird pepper and rich lavender. Sweet and rich with earth and lingering floral notes
Juicy, sweet, rich with intense pine and mineral. Floral and soft and succulent. Funky and peppery.
Clear.
Nose is funky and floral. Juicy honey, with weird pepper and rich lavender. Sweet and rich with earth and lingering floral notes
Juicy, sweet, rich with intense pine and mineral. Floral and soft and succulent. Funky and peppery.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Sep 2025
at 13:24
8.5/10
Tried
on 23 Sep 2025
at 10:49