Lilly Belle Meads

We visited Lilly Belle to see one very special band, Shaky Stage. Mead isn't one of our favorite drinks but we decided to give it a try. Visiting during "Restaurant Week" we opted for a restaurant week deal: 1-flight of mead (4 samples) and trusted the bartender to give a good choice. Not exactly sure of the names, but we believe we tried "Bobby", "Vintage", "Solstice", and "Black Magic". The Solstice was the one with a great strawberry charm that we liked best. We chased the...read full review

Honey based wine or beer - that's a simplistic way to describe what I think a meade is. I was surprised that the sweetest of the meades I sampled were really not sweet. Honey is supposed to be sweet- wrong! Unlike a reisling or traditional sweeter, grape based, wine variety.So I opted for the meade cocktail instead simple it had a pina colada vibe. Cocoanut, pineapple juice added to sweeten. Now that was tasty! It was called the "Polish" something (can't remember the exact name,...read full review

Honey based wine or beer - that's a simplistic way to describe what I think a meade is. I was surprised that the sweetest of the meades I sampled were really not sweet. Honey is supposed to be sweet- wrong! Unlike a reisling or traditional sweeter, grape based, wine variety. So I opted for the meade cocktail instead simple it had a pina colada vibe. Cocoanut, pineapple juice added to sweeten. Now that was tasty! It was called the "Polish" something (can't remember the exact name,...read full review