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GntlKnigt1

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This 37.5 cl bottle was purchased at a Kaas & wijn store in Emmeloord today for 6 euros. The bottle indicates it is 12% ABV. The label says it was made from 2 Mediterranean grape species and enhanced with Dutch Linden honey, organic herbs and spices. Color is very pale transparent yellow and is as thin as "regular" wine. pH 3.5 and SG 1.052 Herbs listed on the back label included cilantro, vanilla, cloves, cinnamon, anise, cocoa, hyssop, thyme, sweet orange and licorice. Nose has a faint smell of honey, but not much of that. No legs at all. Spicey foretaste with cloves predominating, but seems to go rather flat in midtaste. After taste gives a tingle of spiciness and orange with fresh floral sweetness overtones.

Overall, a fairly good effort, but not a prizewinner.
 
Well at least you can get some at the local(ish) store sometimes. I am having to special order just regular meads and it is. And will hopefully have a couple samples from a distributor. I am also going to spend, spend, spend, on a bottle of barrel aged solara mead, and a rhodomel... So hopefully I will have a wider variety of samplings to start really comparing my meads against, and maybe get an idea or twenty for my HoneyBrew List...

Thanks for posting about meads from other areas, it's always a good thing to hear about other styles and ingredients! Makes me realize just how much there is to learn!!! Oy Vey!!!
 
Yeah...if you go to !read in wikedia, and then look at varieties and variants, and we the Ethiopian mead, and polish, and other stuff....big world out there

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GntlKnigt1 said:
Yeah...if you go to !read in wikedia, and then look at varieties and variants, and we the Ethiopian mead, and polish, and other stuff....big world out there

Sent from the Nexus of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which has been infected with Vogon poetry, some of which leaked out here.
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May be a big world out there, but my little corner of it is pretty hard to find a distributor willing to do under 2 cases at a time! I mean REALLY!! I like to drink and all, but 24 bottles at a time just to taste!!! I'll have the best tasting party in town, 24 bottles, by 6 brands with an average of 3 types is 432 bottles of mead to sample :o . I might have to wait on that until I win the lottery.

But I have added to my "To Sample" list a Rhodomel, and a Solara from one of our local meaderies. Can't wait to get them in, although at $35ish for the Solara, I will be savoring that by the drop!!!
 
EJM3 said:
May be a big world out there, but my little corner of it is pretty hard to find a distributor willing to do under 2 cases at a time! I mean REALLY!! I like to drink and all, but 24 bottles at a time just to taste!!! I'll have the best tasting party in town, 24 bottles, by 6 brands with an average of 3 types is 432 bottles of mead to sample!!!
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I don't see the problem. ???


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Well you have the Roadrunner to sell for your honey money. I just have my good looks, and charming personality....... But 432 bottles to sample!!! My-OH-MY what a colossal liver workout that would be!!! :headbang:
 
Cross your fingers! I'm trying to get it into the Auctions America Ft Lauderdale event this weekend!


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Well, we have Veronica over here, and NL4.... no NBC. We DO have "History" channel, with shows about pawn shops, motorcycles, and other stupid stuff, with the occasional historical documentary thrown in. Then there's that other channel, with Swamp People, Hillbilly hand fishing, mountain idiots, Moonshiners, and Lunatic Goof Balls....
 
Just dropped the car off. Tomorrow at 2ish pm eastern time. I'm shitting bricks.


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It's today in a couple of hours.


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No that's a 63 corvette. It sold! Now the brewing begins in earnest. First the garage will become THE TARDIS. Then all the cooling and fermenting vessels will be added. Then, of course, the bar. The only thing missing is Amy Pond.


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mannye said:
No that's a 63 corvette. It sold! Now the brewing begins in earnest. First the garage will become THE TARDIS. Then all the cooling and fermenting vessels will be added. Then, of course, the bar. The only thing missing is Amy Pond.


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these are rather nice..... :)
 
I've been conned !!

Oh man !!! Was *I* sucked in.... looks like this stuff is just backsweetened with honey..... So musch for MY 'refined' palette...

http://ambrosia.nl/index.php/nl/de-wijnen
Here is the google translation (in part)....

vineyards
the vineyards
When the wines selected for Ambrosia again with great care after each harvest , they are transported to Zwaag . In the Netherlands, the wine for richer and depending on your choice, less equivalent Linde Honey , Propolis , organic herbs and other wonderful ingredients .
This gives the wine its unique Ambrosia color , taste, smell .

These flavored drink , according to a sweet wine , is enriched with linden honey and a variety of organically grown herbs : coriander , licorice , vanilla , cinnamon , anise , cocoa , hyssop and sweet orange . The delicious flavor blend , this wine is very suitable if used as a nightcap . Further aperitif Ambrosia ® white can be drunk chilled . At room temperature, the refined taste comes into its own .



Linde Honey - Supports and enhances the effect of many herbs
Coriander - Against insomnia
Licorice - Has a good effect on cortisol
Vanilla - A sweet taste of vanilla
Clove - Against Colds
Cinnamon - Helps against flatulence (Did they really have to add this?)
Anise - Used to treat menstrual pain and contains anethole , a phytoestrogen
Cocoa - Increases energy and resistance . Is an antioxidant that also slows down the aging process . Improves blood circulation
Hyssop - Regulates blood pressure. Coughs , stomach cramps and indigestion
Thyme - Stimulates circulation
Elderberry - Has anti - viral properties
Linde Honey - Supports and enhances the effect of the herbs
Sweet orange - Is an antioxidant
 
You may have been sucked in a bit, but I am now more inclined than ever to propagate a gallon of metheglin. The list of ingredients, besides tasty on their own, are all in my larder already, or I can get them readily at the local health food store... The only ones I don't have on hand are the Hyssop, and the Linde honey. The Hyssop I can get. But Linde honey is from South Africa apparently... ???

Sounds tasty, but expensive to transport!!! I am just a pauvre little mini mead maker after all.........

And that SS fermentor is just pure porn!!! I mean is that even legal to post such things?? ? ?? PORN I tell you, PORN!!! !! !!
 
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