Brimming Horn Meadery, Milton, has introduced its fourth metal and mead series.
This time Brimming Horn is teaming up with Chicago post-metal band The Atlas Moth.
Also, Chicago coffee purveyor Dark Matter Coffee sent a special blend for the collaboration known as Detective Valentine’s Proprietary.”
The brew is made from buckwheat and wildflower honey, coffee, vanilla beans and then aged in bourbon barrels for three months.
Contact between Brimming Horn and vocalist/guitarist Stavros Giannopoulos began in mid-January about joining forces to create a specialty mead just for them. Co-owner J.R. Walker says “Stavros happened to mention that Dark Matter Coffee was doing a specialized coffee for the release of their new album Coma Noir, so I sent Jon the message and he got the creative juices flowing, so of course we had to use their own coffee for their mead. We couldn’t be more excited to work with a band of their caliber and I think everyone will love this new mead”.
Mead-maker Jon Talkington continued, Once I heard that The Atlas Moth had their own coffee it just seemed too perfect not to put it in the mead. I chose dark buckwheat honey and wildflower honey as a base; coffee beans and vanilla beans were added right after fermentation and then the mead was transferred into a bourbon barrel to age and mellow for three months. I wanted the coffee to flavor the mead but not take over the honey, vanilla and barrel notes. All the ingredients shine through in “Detective Valentine’s Proprietary” and it’s a sweet complex mead with a lot of flavor. ”
“Detective Valentine’s Proprietary” is based on the Atlas Moth’s latest album Coma Noir which was released in February on Prosthetic Records and hit the Billboard Music Charts at #24 for Top New Artists albums. This mead will be bottled in 500ml black ceramic bottles and available for $26.99.
Brimming Horn meadery ships to 42 states.
