Little Red Corvette 

Spring 2025 release 

Mead Details 

This mead started out on April 8th 2024. This was a special day. We experience almost a full eclipse here in Ypsilanti. I decided to make 2 meads this day using local wildflower honey from Dexter and then pitch the yeast during the full eclipse. One would be a traditional, and the other a bochet (caramelized honey). 

I caramelized the honey all day in preparation for the final moment of pitching the yeast. 

They both would then go in their own separate fresh dumped Detroit City bourbon barrels to ferment and sleep. These were both 55gal batches.  

Not too long ago we pulled 15gal out from the bochet barrel and that became the first member bottle after we added some fun stuff to it.  So then we topped the barrel off with an amazing super concentrated raspberry mead. We now have a raspberry barrel aged bochet ready for you to enjoy. 

This mead was bourbon barrel fermented. The yeast I used was VRB Yeast. 

Karl’s tasting notes.

Little Red Corvette

Drifting in with style now is our Little Red Corvette. A “simple” mead with a charming name, made in once-in-a-several-decade circumstances. Back during the last North American solar eclipse two barrels ended up gracing the Tasting Room. Until now these two barrels slept. Until now have we started to wake them up to play. First up? Delightful raspberry, just in time for spring.

Gathering the nose of this mead greets me with heavy raspberry huskiness, and I mean huskiness. The way the caramelized honey (not to mention the barrel) bolsters the tart n’ sweet raspberry is that perfect combo; like a sweet and sexy cologne in a dim bar. I’m feeling dramatic today, sue me! Opening this one up just releases more of that sweet raspberry scent experience that demands a taste.

Without further ado, a sip, and boy is it exactly what I wanted. A rich, sweet raspberry with just enough tartness. Blanketed in a soothing caramelized honey wave that ends with a kiss from the barrel right as you swallow. As I return to the tasting it’s just a blessed balance of fruit and honey that satisfies that berry mead craving our regulars have been having, with oh so much more to offer. Exceeds my expectations on another take at raspberry by us here at Maniacal.