I was disappointed with my mead entry. It was a dry, still raspberry melomel. I, and some other brewers, tend to get a "robitussin" flavor from it. Others don't. I entered it to see if there were any flaws. I think that the medicinal flavor is just what I pickup with the Raspberry.
It came back with a 22.5. However, no flaws were noted on the score sheets. (which is good, as that is what I wanted to confirm) Rather, they detracted points because it was dry?! There was even a comment to try a sweet mead as it would be better. My view is if I entered a dry mead, judge it as such, not against your preferential liking of sweet meads. Now I'm not saying it should of placed, but if it is within style and has no noted flaws, shouldn't it be scored as such?
I'm just surprised that I had points detracted for meeting style guidelines of what I declared it to be...does this seen strange to anyone else?