Garagiste's Bangkok

Garagiste Meadery, a new upstart meadery from Florida doesn't have a physical location for their meadery yet, but while Chad is working on getting the physical meadery up and running he's been pumping out small batch meads at a very high rate.  Thus far all of his released meads go to either pouring at festivals or bottles are raffled off to Garagiste's Indigogo investor campaign.  So these bottles tend to be few and far between thus far.  Thankfully I was fortunate enough to try a great number of his meads.

One standout was Bangkok.  Described as follows: Bangkok is part of our destination series of meads.  In Thailand there is an indigenous tea made using butterfly pea blossom flowers call Dok Anchan.  It's visually striking and often a blue or lavender color.  Dok Anchen is typically flavored with honey which made it well suited to mead.  We accented it with ginger and finished it sweet.

The color on this mead was crazy.  Unlike anything I've seen in a mead.  It was this vibrant, almost iridescent purple.  The nose was very floral and tea-like. The taste followed the nose with a very soft, floral taste with lots of green tea and a hint of ginger spiciness.  It does finish a bit sweet but is really an herbal mead.  I loved it, it was unique, fun, and unlike any other mead I've had. 

I'm very much looking forward to more meads like this from Garagiste.  For me, this is what mead making in this currant day and age is all about; taking an extremely class fermented drink and taking it to the next level with new flavor/techniques to create a newly unique drinking experience.