Style: Sweet Mead

All Styles

Style Profile based on 72 recipes

BU:GU

0.00

Hops

7.4 g/L

Style Guidelines BJCP 2015 Mead

1.035 1.17

1.097

0.99 1.01

1.007

IBU

0 0

ABV

3.5% 18%

12.1%

SRM

2 50

Description

Similar in balance, body, finish and flavor intensity to a dry white wine, with a pleasant mixture of subtle honey character, soft fruity esters, and clean alcohol. Complexity, harmony, and balance of sensory elements are most desirable, with no inconsistencies in color, aroma, flavor or aftertaste. The proper balance of sweetness, acidity, alcohol, and honey character is the essential final measure of any mead.

Examples: Moonlight Sensual, Lurgashall Christmas Mead, Chaucer’s Mead, Rabbit’s Foot Sweet Wildflower Honey Mead, Intermiel Benoîte

Typical Grain Bill

100% Pale

% of total grain weight across all recipes · sums to ~100%

Common Additions

39% Pale (100%)

% of Sweet Mead recipes using each malt category (addition % in brackets)

Dry-Hop Rate by Year

g/L · median with IQR range

2024

0 g/L 0 g/L

0 g/L

dated Sweet Mead recipes with at least one dry-hop addition

Common Fermentables

Colour = malt category · bar = % of recipes

Common Yeasts

% of Sweet Mead recipes using each strain

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