We were at the NorCal Renfaire yesterday and Rabbit's Foot was being served. I spent a truly horrific $8 for a glass of the Raspberry, and although I was robbed, it was tasty. Served cold, it smelled like Raspberry, no honey that we could pick up.
Tasted like Raspberry, too, front and middle. Tart at the end and long afterwards. It reminded me very much of the lambic that I had at a brewpub in LA a few weeks ago, sans carbonation, with that tart-almost-but-not-quite-sour aftertaste. I quite liked it, but it did make me wonder...all the meads I've made so far have that tart at the end taste to them, and, in my extreme ignorance and inexperience, they seem a bit unbalanced to me--too much tart?
If that's good, then the ones that I have going are great!
Anyway it was good. Not too sweet, but not too dry. We all liked it and might have bought more if it weren't so heinously expensive. I winced as I paid my $8 for a small plastic cup of mead, thinking of the many gallons of the stuff I have at home.
They told me that their mead is being carried at BevMo, but I've never seen it at my local shop. I can guarantee that if someone brings this mead to the mead tasting in a couple of weeks, it'll score high.
Tasted like Raspberry, too, front and middle. Tart at the end and long afterwards. It reminded me very much of the lambic that I had at a brewpub in LA a few weeks ago, sans carbonation, with that tart-almost-but-not-quite-sour aftertaste. I quite liked it, but it did make me wonder...all the meads I've made so far have that tart at the end taste to them, and, in my extreme ignorance and inexperience, they seem a bit unbalanced to me--too much tart?
If that's good, then the ones that I have going are great!
Anyway it was good. Not too sweet, but not too dry. We all liked it and might have bought more if it weren't so heinously expensive. I winced as I paid my $8 for a small plastic cup of mead, thinking of the many gallons of the stuff I have at home.
They told me that their mead is being carried at BevMo, but I've never seen it at my local shop. I can guarantee that if someone brings this mead to the mead tasting in a couple of weeks, it'll score high.
The raspberry mead is probably the one I like best, of their meads, though I haven't had the Mead of Poetry yet. Thankfully they seem to have stopped making their dry oaked pear mead, that was not so good.
