bottle with a skep and some friars on it

[beekind]

hey everybody,
just wondering if anyone out there has had a mead fitting this description:

drawing of friars (brown robed, with the bald patch hair cut) drinking mead. i believe some of them were on a wagon (maybe, maybe not). and there were beehives of the skep design on it. one of the friars was running. it may have been from england (but then again, maybe not), or somewhere else in europe. it was a sweet mead.

my wife and i had a couple of bottles of this stuff a few years ago, and were pleased by it. we've had a bit more experience since then, and we would love to try it again to see how we would rate it, now. we've since moved far away from the liquor store that we got it from, so we can't get it there. and they didn't seem to know much about it (except that it was rare for them to get it in).

i know this is waaay vague, but i figured if anybody knew this, one of y'all would.

thanks.

 

[wildaho]

i know this is waaay vague, but i figured if anybody knew this, one of y'all would.

thanks.

Ummmm.... yes, it's a bit vague. It's not one that I'm familiar with but I'd love to try it! The only commercial meads I've had up here are incredibly too sweet!

Sigh. I can't get "serious" meaderies here so I have to rely on myself or my friends and what they might send me...

:cheers:
Wade

 

[fatbloke]

Hum? well the only two places I can think of, off the top of my head that might connect, would be Buckfast Abbey, though the monks stopped making mead when Brother Adam passed on in the late 90's - I don't even know if they ever sold meads - they're still well known for their tonic wine........ especially among the drunks of Scotland "Ah'll ha a bottle a buckie pleez big yun"

Or, of course, there's no monastery now (that I'm aware of), but still has ancient religious links to mead making and that would be Lindisfarne Mead (Isle of Lindisfarne off the north east coast). Though I couldn't really see how many monks might be in the bottle graphics.

Lindisfarne mead is like most commercial meads available here (and there's not a huge number of them) and very, very sweet i.e. dessert meads - when I check it out against others that had been made at vineyards in the south, they all measured between 1035 and 1042 gravity wise.

I like my meads medium sweet, sort of 1005 to 1010....

dunno if that's jogs your memory in any way beekind ???

regards

fatbloke

 

[beekind]

wade, you probably wouldn't have liked this one, either. it was pretty darn sweet. but, something about it was very drinkable. with your mead situation (or lack of meadery situation), sounds like it's very motivational for making your own.;D

thanks, fatbloke. i checked the website for lindisfarne, and the bottles didn't look like that, but things do change. when i read your post, i did suddenly think of lurgashall mead, which may be the one. i sent them an email and asked if they ever made a mead with a label as i described it.
if it's not them, i'll email lindisfarne (which sounds familiar, but not as much-my brain no worky so good, sometimes). maybe i spent to much time looking at all the empty mead bottles from all over the world, in the tasting room at redstone meadery.

i'll post when they reply,
dave

 

[beekind]

YES!
we found it. it is Lurgashall Winery's Special Reserve Mead. the label that i described is only for the north american market, so i couldn't find it on their website. here's the label:

it's a pretty darn cool label. happy monks drinking their passion.