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Although I am very satisfied with my own meads, I picked up a couple of bottles of Lurgashall mead (from the UK) a few weeks ago while in Fargo. One is a Christmas mead (bottle says it is good for mulling - although it came with no spices) and the other is just a traditional mead.

I haven't tried these yet, although I may open the Christmas mead this weekend. I'm saving the other bottle for the April meeting of my homebrew club, when we have a mead tasting. From what I've read, this stuff is supposed to be better than Chaucer's (not that it takes much), but not as good as homemade mead done by a competent meadmaker.

www.lurgashall.co.uk
 
The cristmass mead usually has a small spice package attached, as far as I know it is the same mead. It is possible however that it may be lesser quality than thier normal one. Say they brew 75 barrels, the 50 best ones become thier normal mead, the other 25 get bottled with the spices. This is only a theory... the way I'd market my mead if i was making the call.

Traditionally the lesser quality wines were mulled i believe.

I've had Lurgashall and thought it was good enough to try brewing my own for my second taste of mead.
 
I tried lurgashall english mead, 357ml, $9. I must say, I really didn't like it and couldn't even finish the bottle. Was this a bad bottle or...?
 
I recently tried Lurgashall. It is rather sweet. Not overwhelmingly, horribly sweet, but very sweet nonetheless. I seem to recall reading in these forums that many have found an unpleasant licorice sort of flavor in the aftertaste. I agree. Bad aftertaste.

I certainly would not buy it again.
 
It was drier than I expected, and the anise aftertaste was unpleasant. I was fortunate to be able to try a sample. I won't waste the money on buying a bottle of it.
 
I was searching for the word .. anise will suffice i suppose .. but yeah, it was a toxic level for sure.
 
I picked up some of the Christmas mead at DiCarlo's liquor store. While it is ok, I think that even the few batches I've made myself are better, but those are mels, not traditional. I think I'll try it mulled later, see how that goes. Either way, the initial taste is good, but then it does taste like anise, which I am not too fond of.
 
I tried the Christmas mead mulled, and in small sips it is ok, but anything larger and it still tastes of anise. Probably won't try this again. Hey, they had Czech mead, I'll give that a whirl.

[EDIT]: Mixed 1/3 carbonated water, 1/3 lemonade, 1/3 Christmas mead. Pretty tasty.
 
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