“Bochet is a French word for caramelised honey mead. Technically it resembles traditional Lithuanian Keptinis beer style, that is brewed by baking your mash in an oven until it darkens and caramelises. In this case the same happens with honey.
To make this barley Bochet we used 300 kilograms of honey. The honey was boiled until it reached its liquid state and we did not stop there. We continued boiling it until it started bubbling, black smoke appeared and its volume increased 8 times. It started looking like tar but had a pleasant smell of smoky honey and caramel. At the end of the caramelising process the honey reached 125 degrees Celsius. Further caramelisation was prevented by diluting it with some pale malt wort that we have prepared in advance. No hops or other spices were used in the boiling process. Wort gravity was so high that the fermentation could only be completed by champagne yeast.
This tough work was awarded by the final result – a gently carbonised, sweet barley and honey mead hybrid. We used only light honey and pale malts but caramelisation turned it into brown / deep amber colour beverage. On the nose it carries some beeswax notes and flowery aromas. In the taste it has some light acidity from champagne yeast fermentation, and some deep toffee notes. Due to its full body and sweetness, serious ABV is well masked under the bold taste.”
Robert –
Sweet honey 3.5
Tom –
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Chris –
Very nice. Malty and sweet.
Elisabeth –
Lovely sticky honey sweetness with hints of caramel, nuts & dates on a soft bready base. The light carbonation cuts through the sweetness before a big boozy warmth finish
Alun –
too meadie for me
Chris –
Stephen –
liam –
Wowza. Big honey and caramel. Shalln’t be drinking this too quick. Very nice though
Kieran –
James –
🤯 Strong and very sweet, the description nails it. Would struggle to enjoy more than one
Diana –
A most unusual rich and wonderful tasting drink. Quite special.
Phil –
This is one of the more unique drinks I’ve ever had. Fruity, seriously strong and a good aftertaste.
Tom –
Very impressive and complex flavour
Kathleen –
Drink nice and cold, lovely honey taste!
Charles –
Very tasty, full depth of flavour. Hides it’s strength well
Oliver –
Unusual flavours, quite nice though.
Matthew –
Intense honey flavours. Unusual and memorable among the carbon copy IPAs and stouts
Scott –
Not a huge fan of this one, but was worth a try but now i know I prefer a still mead
James –
Sweet caramel flavours
MIKKEL THEISS –
Sweet and flavourful mead that has nice notes of honey barley. Very good on its own or as a dessert beer
Dean –
michael –
Ill be honest i enjoyed this beer but it had a bit of a funny aftertaste to it which to me made it taste a bit like a lager top from the good old 1990’s. did not really pick up any honey either which was odd