Apis Jadwiga Mead

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

Rated Nov. 2007. Courtesy of Ratebeer's after4ever and shared with after4ever and bitbucket. Pours a rich deep amber. The aroma is huge with sweet honey, red wine tannins, some mild alcohol and hints of wood. The mead enters thick, chewy and sludgingly sludgy. The honey hits first then it is followed by a quick burst of red wine tannins then very sweet honey and a hint of wood. It ends with honey, sugar and faint alcohol. I also am starting to get mild dark fruity esters. This is a thick product leaving behind sweetness and honey behind far into the after taste.

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

Aroma - fermenting honey-like aroma, silage, cool evenings in the summer near an orchard, maple syrup, caramel apples..wow

Appearance - light golden body, crystal clear, still, coates my glass with an impressive eveness..stunning to look at like a beautiful sunset in my glass

Taste - over-the-top sweetness, has the sticky calling card of honey...alcohol? Not a blip of it anywhere. Just a few drops completely coveres all corners of the tastebuds and it explodes into a stunning display of sweetness.

Palate - smooth, never cloying, but you know it’s made with honey

Overall - my first experience with a mead, and it was incredibly enjoyable, even if my blood sugar skyrocketed due to the sweetness. Definitely an after dinner sipper or dessert drink. Nice to know this bottle will keep after being opened.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Bottle, at RBESG 2007 in Glasgow, Grand Tasting. Beautiful deep amber to mahogany colour, no head nor carbonation. Intense oaky and honey aroma. Intense oaky and honey sweet flavour, very impressive but too sweet for me. (No wonder it is sweet, with the insane amount of honey it is made with.)

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

(Apis Miod Poltorak Jadwiga). Amber colour, no head. Aroma wineous, caramelly and fruity. Very sweet. Flavour is honey, fruits and alcohol. Very sweet finish. Lovely honeyish aftertaste.

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 10 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

Finally getting my chance to try this mead. Beautiful glowing gold. Strong melon and spicy alcohol. Scuppernongs. Richly sweet. Needs to be sipped as two big of a swallow burns, but a small sip is a very beautiful thing. Tons of honey. Most meads don’t smell this much like unfermented honey. Drinking this reminds of picking sunwarmed scuppernongs with their honeylike sweetness off the vine in my parents’ backyard as a kid.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

Pours with an amber body topped with little head or lacing, which was expected. The aroma is slightly sweet with lots of alcohol...smells like brandy. The flavor is very sweet and full of honey, actually tastes like fresh honey to me. Full bodied and smooth.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

1997 bottle. This is my first mead so wasn't sure how to rate this. Poured a nice orange color with zero head. Tasted very sweet but not bad, taste of honey and could taste the oak. mouthfeel was thick syrupy. Good need to have more meads to judge better.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Sampled a batch from 1997, bottled in 2004 (16% ABV). The pour was interesting. Nice golden amber color, pretty clear and thick (and no head). The fingers, as E mentioned, were wild. The aroma was sweet and oakey. The flavor was a bit overly sweet but very good. Honey comes through clearly and the alcohol doesn't hide. The oak aging permeates every aspect of the flavor. Mouthfeel was syrup-like and the only downer to the beer, in my opinion.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Okay...this is my first mead. I think I'll stick to BEER. It tastes like honey...only sweeter (goodness, is that possible?). Maybe if I had some more meads, I'd be able to say whether this is average, above average, or below.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Orange gold color, Small head. Aroma is orange honey and very sweet. Full bodied. Sticky and glass covering. If it were a wine, they would say it had big legs. Very sweet. Orange and honey flavors. Incredibly smooth. For all it’s sweetness it very easy to drink. It would have to be in small quantities, but it goes down very easily. I still can’t remember what childhood memory this stuff was triggering, but I do remember something like this when I was very small. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean smooth. Aftertaste is very sweet