So, my first batch of mead I started last November is in bottles. It is traditional mead, 14% abv and is somewhere between sweet and semi-sweet.
It tastes like what I am use to mead tasting like, so here is the gist of this topic:
One thing I have been afraid to mention when I taste a mead is that it has a slight taste that is similar to the aroma (if you want to call it that) of a urinal cake. You know the chemical hockey pucks you aim your stream at in commercial bathroom urinals.
It is not just my mead, it is commercial and regional mead. My mead has a somewhat subdued "UC" flavor compared to the two others I have tasted. (I am a new bee, so I dont have a good range of comparison)
I did a online search for Mead & urinal cake, and I got some hits, one even on this board!
http://www.gotmead.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-11134.html
They are all referring to using Irish spring soap to wash your hands and then drinking mead, then you get the urinal cake "flavor".
I dont mind this unusual flavor, because I am use to it, but it is a BIG TURNOFF if you mention it to anyone who is trying mead for the first time.
So, for those of you who have been drinking/making mead for longer than I have, what do you think?
Is this the norm, a mega mead secret, or have I only been exposed to "UC" mead here in the Northeast?
Inquiring taste buds want to know
It tastes like what I am use to mead tasting like, so here is the gist of this topic:
One thing I have been afraid to mention when I taste a mead is that it has a slight taste that is similar to the aroma (if you want to call it that) of a urinal cake. You know the chemical hockey pucks you aim your stream at in commercial bathroom urinals.
It is not just my mead, it is commercial and regional mead. My mead has a somewhat subdued "UC" flavor compared to the two others I have tasted. (I am a new bee, so I dont have a good range of comparison)
I did a online search for Mead & urinal cake, and I got some hits, one even on this board!
http://www.gotmead.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-11134.html
They are all referring to using Irish spring soap to wash your hands and then drinking mead, then you get the urinal cake "flavor".
I dont mind this unusual flavor, because I am use to it, but it is a BIG TURNOFF if you mention it to anyone who is trying mead for the first time.
So, for those of you who have been drinking/making mead for longer than I have, what do you think?
Is this the norm, a mega mead secret, or have I only been exposed to "UC" mead here in the Northeast?
Inquiring taste buds want to know