Sun Kissed

12%

Fall 2024

Mead Details 

This was a fun project for me. As this was my first experience using Kveik yeast. 

This was a 50gal batch using Mexican Orange Blossom honey.  

This mead was started in February. Trying to bottle in the Fall of 2024.

Tasting notes from Karl 

New to our roster is another traditional mead! Capital! The Sun Kissed makes use of one of our new -and more exotic- honeys: orange blossom, all the way from Mexico. This honey has appeared in other meads produced around the same time as this one, many already have therefore had the pleasure of enjoying this southern citrus honey!

Just smelling the Sun Kissed and it’s that perfect, simple, sweet pleasure of pure honey made unto mead. The nose demonstrates the delightfully bright and citrusy notes from the orange blossom flowers that spawned the honey. Each intake gives off that lovely light-orange sweetness and the expected intensity of delicious honey. Perfect.

One sip in and its just a lush splash of light honey with undertones of orange nectar. The texture is akin to warm honey with a bite of that welcomed citrus indeed. Each sweet sip is a loving wave of silky smooth honey, floral nectar tones, semi-citrus and interestingly, a bite of succulent plant. Unlike more delicate orange blossom honey notes in more northern varieties, the Sun Kissed’s profile does have the taste of a warmer climate; for those willing to search for it. All in all another unique traditional mead that captures the essence of what mazing is all about.