Misbeehavin' - Sycophant

Sycophant is a fig mead made with star thistle honey and orange zest by Misbeehavin' Meads.  This mead was available as a free bottle to members of Misbeehavin's mead society. It was a 1 bottle per member allotment, came in a 375mL bottle and was released in early June 2016.

This mead pours a bourbon brown with nice alcohol legs but zero carb.  The aroma is sticky sweet fig, a bit of earth, like mushrooms, and citrus.  The taste follows closely with the nose.  At first this honey drenched fig hits you, then it opens up to a refreshing citrus zest that leaves a clean refreshing taste.  Almost like a boozy fruit salad of oranges, strawberries, and green apples.

This mead is very complex.  There's these layers of flavor that, at first, I didn't think would work; but taste so right together.  The honey is in perfect balance with the orange zest, the citrus bursts onto the back end while the fig gives you almost a nuttier version of a cross between an apple and a strawberry.  There's also a booziness to the mead that reminds me of a tamer version of Pirate Love, the rum barrel aged date mead by Misbeehavin.  Although Sycophant is much smoother.  It's dangerously drinkable. I finished the 375mL in less than an hour with very little effort.  

All in all I loved this mead.  It was so unique and unlike any other mead I've ever tasted.  It is bursting with nuance and extremely drinkable.  This might be my favorite mead that Misbeehavin' has done thus far.  A superior mead from a meadery that isn't even a year old (*Opened April 2016).  I'm extremely sad I only had a singular bottle of this, I really hope they make this mead again.  Clint, if you are readying this - produce this mead again, please and thank you!