Mircula Braggot (Specialty Mead)
Mircula Meadery & Brewery
- From:
- Mircula Meadery & Brewery
- Bhutan
- Style:
- Braggot
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.25 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 31, 2025
- Added:
- Oct 31, 2025
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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“The Drink of the Gods & Kings”
Ingredients: Pure Malted Barley, Hops, Honey, Yeast, Mead, Chamomile & Water
Ingredients: Pure Malted Barley, Hops, Honey, Yeast, Mead, Chamomile & Water
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by hopley from Massachusetts
2.25/5 rDev 0%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2.25
2.25/5 rDev 0%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2.25
Drank first in Bumthang, Bhutan in October, 2025, bottle said best before June 2025 - rated this bottle 1.45. It was pretty bad. I saw another bottle in a shop with a different label with a May, 2026 date so I bought this and tried this chilled a few days later in Paro. These ratings reflect this second tasting which were much better.
Look - tiny white head and limited carbonation, slightly hazy yellow color. Looked a lot better than the aged version.
Smell - kind of an organic grassy smell, as if you crossed up chamomile flowers and whiffed them. I’m not going to say it was the best smell in the world but I’ll give props for intent. Smelled similar to the aged version.
Taste - about the same as the smell but mixed with water. Hot chamomile tea might be good if you’re a tea drinker, but cold chamomile beer that lacks any resemblance to beer as I know it doesn’t really work for me, even in the land of the Thunder Dragon. It tasted roughly the same as the aged version albeit slightly more refreshing given the chilling.
Feel - felt flat like water despite a few bubbles, similar to the aged version.
Overall - probably one of the worst beers I’ve ever had, but again, drinking a braggot produced by a Bhutanese brewery, I tried it and tried to find the light…but couldn’t. I’m better because of it. I’m going to try to find a fresh bottle on our way out of town tomorrow and update this review.
Overall - the conclusion is that - this still is one of the worst beers I’ve ever drank - but my overall rating rose from 1.45 to 2.25 when I drank the lesser aged version. I think I appreciate the Bhutanese trying to brew a braggot but nonetheless, I guess braggots typically aren’t brewed for good reason…!
Oct 31, 2025Look - tiny white head and limited carbonation, slightly hazy yellow color. Looked a lot better than the aged version.
Smell - kind of an organic grassy smell, as if you crossed up chamomile flowers and whiffed them. I’m not going to say it was the best smell in the world but I’ll give props for intent. Smelled similar to the aged version.
Taste - about the same as the smell but mixed with water. Hot chamomile tea might be good if you’re a tea drinker, but cold chamomile beer that lacks any resemblance to beer as I know it doesn’t really work for me, even in the land of the Thunder Dragon. It tasted roughly the same as the aged version albeit slightly more refreshing given the chilling.
Feel - felt flat like water despite a few bubbles, similar to the aged version.
Overall - probably one of the worst beers I’ve ever had, but again, drinking a braggot produced by a Bhutanese brewery, I tried it and tried to find the light…but couldn’t. I’m better because of it. I’m going to try to find a fresh bottle on our way out of town tomorrow and update this review.
Overall - the conclusion is that - this still is one of the worst beers I’ve ever drank - but my overall rating rose from 1.45 to 2.25 when I drank the lesser aged version. I think I appreciate the Bhutanese trying to brew a braggot but nonetheless, I guess braggots typically aren’t brewed for good reason…!
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