B. Nektar Meadery
Meadery
in Ferndale,
Michigan,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: B. Nektar Meadery
Established in 2008
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Served at 48*F. Pours with a clear, very light, pale yellow body with decently strong legs. Aroma is dryish with a decently woodsy, grape note, cinnamon, vanilla cake, buttery and grassy. Taste is great! Liquid snickerdoodle cookie in a glass. Not overly sweet, cut by a lot of tannins. Nice, but strong alcoholic presence. Kind of thin for a mead of this gravity. Light effervescence.
BMan1113VR (8092) reviewed Wildberry Pyment from B. Nektar Meadery 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle via a trade with TheCheeseMan. Pours a blood red to purple body with medium legs. Aroma is sweet with berry syrup, grape, kool-aid, and blackberry. Taste is sweet, fruity, berry syrup, honey and a boat load of alcohol (but I like the burn). Very, very, very, hot with a syrupy mouthfeel.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle shared at BCTC. Might have been too late for this one, as there was still more then half left once everyone turned in. Consumed the rest of the contents of that blue glass the day I got back home. Note: Needed to be drunk room temperature for the peppers not to be absolutely lost to me. Poured into my newly acquired baby Duvel glass. Pours bright & clear like some cranberry juice, though a bit darker like honest merlot. Smells of bloody & tart raspberries, & a whole plastic bag full of macerated orange peels. Maybe a strong, unfinished batch of sangria, or maybe just some realy fruity Beaujolais. Taste is big again on red wine. Fruit punch sweetness, giving way to medicinal alcohol & bitter orange. Wine-like tannins come through near the end, which finally introduces some warming sensations in my cheeks. Tiny, tiny zip of chili on the sides of my tongue, but too faint to be enjoyed initially. I get real comfortable after 3-4 ounces. The heat builds to a noticeable level. Body rolls, but doesn’t quite stick to my lips like some of their other meads. Alcohol is invasive, but big fruit the & winey nose & tannins make for a better then average package.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Bottle brought to BCTC. Wow, you guys actually drank this one. Saving a half pour for a proper rate. Poured into my now sanitized baby Duvel glass. Alcohol is listed as between 12%-14%. Clover honey. Color is a clear bright 10k gold. Simple enough. Smell is pepper, slight citrus, plastic, & vanilla extract(yes, I read the label, real vanilla beans). Fumey, but not exactly what I want to smell. Taste is soft, slight with lemon honey. Midway, vanilla comes through gently, but quite in full. I can’t get the cinnamon. Vanilla is delicious. It lingers faintly, rolling on your lips, eventually turning powdery, fuming back through your nose. Apple-like citrus cuts with some light bitterness & a squeak of tartness. That shows early though. Sweet, but not repulsive, or even rich. Body is on the lighter side for mead. Still very much a delicate sipper. Alcohol is about as expected. If only for the smell, this would be divine. I so want to give this a higher score.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle thanks to my little ugly duckling. Shared half of it a couple days ago at the end of a tasting. While pretty decent after all we had, I thought it deserved a more thorough investigation. Poured into an Ommegang tulip, which is probably the wrong move with this. A color in between wine vinegar & white zinfandel. Skirt of white soapy suds, even after a day & change. We poured this amateurishly into shot glasses the other night. Smell is intense with cherry skins & wheat & earth(never really experienced buckwheat, outside of Eddie Murphy & SNL, sorry). Almost savory. Very perfumey, like grandma. :P Rose water. Plastic & medicinal qualities still manage to plague it, but still retain most of its natural air. Alcohol is tolerable, but ready to strike. Taste is almost spicy at first with earthy pits, pesticides & Robitussin. Now with a wider-mouthed glass & time to think about it, I sense more rose water, cranberry tartness, & some pure cherry juice that I tried for the first time thanks to the host’s lovely wife & her appetite for things different. Just a faint touch of carbonation then, body now still manages to remain fairly light considering. Thinly coating, alcohol is there but always seems to be receding. Finish is a touch bitter & surprisingly dry. Better to me completely room temp. as opposed to chilled or warm. Cherry seemed a bit too hairy & medicinal, but overall the mead is pretty good. :)
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