Maxwell Honey Mead

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Gots me a glass of apple juice here for looks. I can get some OK legs, but the mead really sticks to the glass and ever so slowly creeps back down to the liquid level. The aroma is pretty good and I find it quite appealing with its raw honey smell and minor notes of spice, caramel and on the odd occasion ends with some soft alcohol fumes. Taste is really good - smooth with zero harshness. Quite sweet but not over the top - and not a fake or forced sweetness either if that makes any sence. Obvious honey and an overstrong spicy white wine taste - but not enough to ruin or diminish the dominant honey. This stuff is going down like water - so easy to drink. Very smooth and obviously thick mouthfeel. A good tartness attacked my tongue on most sips but everytime it leaves my mouth feeling dry (ignoring the coating in my mouth). Seems more dry as I get past the 2/3 point of the bottle and the spiciness comes out more especially in the after taste. Looks like I need to get another bottle of this and the Baren Met which are both available at my fave beer store - gotta find a sucker, er, friend to go in on it as they are both 20$!! A mead tasting? I may be insane - or drunk....or both.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

My first ever mead, not to sure what to expect but lets hope its better then it sounds, fermented honey is not the most appealing thing I’ve ever herd of. Looks like apple juice, I’m not really to sure what it’s suppose to look like so I guess this is ok, boring looking really. Wow very strong aroma, strong is an understatement; dry white wine, apples, and nail polish remover, is that normal???? Can’t seem to detect any of the honey that I think I should be able to. This taste like white wine concentrate if there is such a thing, insanely sweet, and there’s a subtle strong alcohol presence, but that makes no sense at all. Once again I can’t detect any honey in the flavor; the mead is leaving my saliva very thick and stringy, and I have a overpoweringly sweet after taste left in my mouth. Not sure if I’m a fan of this style, but wait I’m starting glass number two from this 750ml bottle at 12.5%, feeling all warm and fuzzy, head swimming, this makes watching the Gilmore Girls with my girl friend a lot more bearable. Wow by the start of the third and final glass this tastes pretty darn good, and makes the long walk to the pisser more fun and wacky. I fear the axe splitting head ache I’ll have tomorrow. Yep I was correct me head felt like it had an axe in it all morning.