Orlando’s Zymarium Meadery announces a new bottled offering available on January 27th: Soliloquy of Nectar: Florida Black Mangrove.
From Zymarium Meadery:
If you’ve been to the Zymarium taproom, chances are you’ve had this big sweet Traditional Mead on draft! This is one we’ve gotten countless requests to release in bottles…and here it is!
This style of mead is the truest of meads as it showcases the honey and alcohol.
Full flavored, rich with dark caramel and butterscotch notes, you can taste that 16% (without it being hot).
Florida Black Mangrove is our favorite Florida honey (and we’ve tried a LOT of honeys!).
Tupelo gets all the fanfare, but this is the true hidden gem of the South. Out on the Space Coast is all uninhabited government land, and it’s thick with dense Black Mangrove groves. Our honey source is the only person with the permits to be allowed to put hives in the middle of these groves, making it the purest, most mono-floral, honey we can source!
These unique trees grow on the edge of the saltwater, and some people swear there’s a faint hint of salt to go with all the caramel flavors.
Our previous mead releases in our ‘Soliloquy of Nectar’ series have been sweet, and we do a great job of hiding the ABV, but this one we let show through a little to help balance the sweetness even better. This mead isn’t “hot” but the 16% comes through in a wonderful way, and we’ve been aging it since June to mellow to right where we want it.
The ‘Soliloquies’ have also been oak-less in the past, but we couldn’t resist working in a little blend of oaks to help smooth the finish, temper the sweetness, and compliment the existing flavors.
About Zymarium Meadery
Zymarium Meadery is an award-winning meadery focusing on using local honey, unique flavors, and quality ingredients. We make all of our meads onsite, just 20 feet from the taproom where they’re served.
Since a mead can never be better than the quality of its ingredients, we use only the best honey we can find. We source our honey from as many local sources as we can, usually within two hours of Orlando, ensuring that our our meads are not only hyper local, but the money goes back to growing local hives and bee population (drink mead, save the bees!). We only use honey that has not been heated ensuring that the volatile aromatics and enzymes of the honey are preserved. Our local honey is unfiltered, just like our meads, to preserve the local pollen.
We take a modern approach to mead making, applying all the latest science of both wine- and beer-making to ensure our meads unlock the true potential of the honey while focusing on continually exploring new flavor profiles, taking full advantage of the fact that all honey tastes different!