Description

The Rookery is a rare Scottish meadery. Focusing on purity as well as historical accuracy, their meads are made using ingredients that would have been available to people in medieval times, where possible using locally sourced and foraged ingredients.
A strong Scottish heather honey is tempered by a milder polyfloral honey before being diluted with water and fermented along with selected additional ingredients up to 17%. This yields a warming beverage with only a mild sweetness, and one that allows all the flavours of the added fruits, plants, herbs and spices to be clearly tasted without being overwhelming. The clean flavours and aromatics make these meads quite popular among whisky-drinkers and as a lighter alternative for a post-meal tipple.

The Spruce Mead is made by adding the young tips of spruce trees to the fermentation. Picked during the spring, these tips are edible when new, and they impart a pleasant conifer aroma as well as a surprisingly fresh sweetness, with very little in the way of bitterness. While the woody notes appeal to whisky drinkers, the light sweetness gives it a broad appeal. Serve cool in wide glasses to get the most of the aroma.
Heathens have been known to mix this mead with ginger ale or tonic water, and some even with whisky or gin to give it an extra bite, but we had to go for a lie down when Sloe Gin cocktails were mentioned.