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| - If you enjoy wine or craft beer, you must try mead! It's a classy and delicious way to enjoy your alcohol and get buzzed, and Apis Mead is a great place to imbibe it. The ambiance is classy, service is friendly, and the mead is delicious!
Before I came here, I'd never tried mead before, but now I'm totally hooked. In order to try as many flavors and versions as possible, I ordered the sampler, which I'd recommend to anyone unfamiliar with mead. It came with six types of mead, ordered by alcohol content/strength: Peach apricot, melliflora, blackberry-raspberry, tangerine-ginger, blueberry-chai, and cranberry. Quite frankly, I found all of them delicious, to the point that I had difficulty deciding which one was my favorite! My friends, who came with me, ordered samplers of the remaining types of mead not included in the sampler (florea, dorsata, and sangiovese), and I ended up liking the dorsata best, which I never would have guessed! It was complex--both dry and semi-sweet at once, with a distinct honey-like flavor that I loved. My other favorites were the florea and blackberry-raspberry, so if I return (which I'm sure I will), I'll be sure to order a bottle of one of those next time!
Just to be clear, the flavored meads were each based on one of the basic meads (florea, melliflora, or dorsata). In my opinion, the melliflora was the least distinctive (it tasted like a standard chardonnay to me), which surprised me, since I thought this was the version I'd like best. Having said that, I think the flavors added to this version the most, since the flavored meads based on it were my favorites.
Aside from the mead itself, I was very favorably impressed with the service and ambience. Since we came relatively early, we called ahead and asked if we could bring in some food (so we had something to absorb the alcohol), and the owner, Dave, said it was fine, since they don't offer any food aside from cheese and crackers. So, we hit up Don-Don Chinese next door, and enjoyed some General Tso's chicken with our mead.
I'd highly recommend Apis Mead to anyone who hasn't tried mead before, as well as to seasoned mead aficionados. Based on my experience, I'm sure I'll be back soon--I'm hooked!
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