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B. Nektar Ken Schramm Signature Series - The Heart of Darkness

B. Nektar Ken Schramm Signature Series - The Heart of Darkness

Rated 3.540 by BeerPals

Brewed by B. Nektar Meadery

Ferndale, MI, United States

Style:  Mead

14% Alcohol by Volume

This is a limited edition beer


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Meadmaker Ken Schramm crafted the Heart of Darkness exclusively from his home grown fruit. This mead represents a true labor of love. Hand-picked and hand-pitted morello cherries were fermented with black currants, red raspberries and Michigan honey from Larry Yates’ Sawmill Lake Apiaries. Virtually all of a season’s fruit production was used in this inaugural batch, limiting its production to a small number of individually signed and numbered bottles. The Heart of Darkness was free run, unfined and unfiltered, yielding a deep, intense character. It pairs beautifully with grilled meats, bleu cheese, and dark chocolate. 2009 vintage - 110 bottles 2011 vintage - 140 bottles

ID: 106844 Last updated 1 month ago Added to database 3 months ago

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Statistics

Overall Rank3761
Overall Percentile96.5
Style Rank12 of 608
Style Percentile98
Lowest Score4.1
Highest Score4.6
Average Score4.350
Weighted Score3.540
Standard Deviation0.000

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  • SLEDUTAH 11638 reviews
    rated 4.1 1 month ago

    Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

    Bottle from Kickbacks during RBWG welcome dinner, thanks to Daniel for sharing this
    Appearance: Clear mahogany, no head or lacing
    Aroma is sugar, tart, woody and sweet fruit
    Very nice, easy drinking and great.

  • IBREW2OR3 11581 reviews
    rated 4.6 3 months ago

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

    Rated April 2012. This nectar pours rug staining deep bright red, maybe like reduced plum juice, and leaving behind a good bit of legginess. The aroma is full and rich with pungent earthy berry smelling dark currants as well as well nearly bright levels of crushed up fruit skin tartness and rich sweet ripe to mildly tart cherry meat. Wow! The taste is rich and vibrant with cherry meat nuanced earthy currant sweet nectar like goodness. Wow. I frikin’ love currant used in this way. Behind those rich succulent notes are cherry to currant tartness as well as firm currant earthiness pulling this all together. It ends dry and all the flavor withers away effortlessly.

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