41st Cambridge Beer Festival Mead List

This list is a hopefully accurate record of the meads that were served at the festival.

  • Lurgashall West Sussex Reserve Mead 17.0% flavoured with honey and rum, matured in oak barrels it has slight hints of citrus and oak
  • Spiced Mead 13.0% Made using ingredients favoured by Elizabeth I, this has a medium sweet spicy taste with a crisp but balanced acidity.
  • Whisky Mead 20.0% Fortified with Scotch whisky, this has a sweet taste, with fine overlying tones of whisky and oak. Crisp but well balanced.
  • Lyme Bay Devon Christmas Mead 13.0% Rich, blended with festive spices.
  • Tournament Mead 11.0% dark and sweet with a discreet hint of ginger.
  • Traditional Mead 14.5% Sweet and full flavoured.
  • West Country Mead 14.5% Medium-sweet with spicy overtones.
  • Moniack Inverness Moniack Mead 14.6% Made with heather blossom honey.