The Enduring Mead is part of the limited editions from the Danish meadery Mjødgård. This mead truly lives up to its name, as after each bottling, the remaining mead is reused as the base for the next batch of Enduring Mead.
Eternal Mead is an imaginative tribute to the kind of mead a völva—a Norse seeress—might have brewed in ancient times. Eternal, because it never truly ends. Each new batch is infused with a portion of the previous one, constantly revived with water, honey, herbs, shoots, and fruits.
It has a pronounced sweetness—true to the DNA of Mjødgård. Unripe gooseberries bring a crisp acidity, while apples add a natural fruity sweetness. A wide variety of wild herbs, such as hawthorn, yarrow, spruce shoots, and fresh young berry bush shoots, contribute to a complex, spiced character. The experience is rounded off by the subtle bitterness of walnuts.
At the table, it pairs beautifully with salads, fish, and meat. It also complements less sweet desserts and baked goods. It’s an excellent match for aged cheeses like Comté, Prästost, Vesterhavsost, or cheddar, and pairs well with fruits such as melon, dates, or caramelized figs.
Serve slightly chilled, at 8–10 °C.
mead
Mead is an alcoholic beverage fermented from honey and water, with possibility of addition of other ingredients such as spices or herbs or in combination with fruit juices.
Melomel
Melomel is a fruit mead with is fermented from honey and fruit juices.
Production process
This mead was made cold. This means that during its production, the honey was not heated above 40-45 °C, which is the normal temperature in nature to which honey is resistant. At higher temperatures, some precious components of honey can be damaged and degraded. Cold-made mead is the best choice.
Producer Mjødgård
A popular Danish mead producer
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We bring you the first swallow from Denmark in the form of honestly and artisanally produced Mjødgård brand meads. The mead farm was founded in 2008 by Odd Castmar with a clear vision and a written manifesto that set Mjødgård apart from other, as they say, "mead mixers" at the time.
Mjødgård should produce honest mead from local honey, local ingredients, herbs, go through artisanal production, the result of which will be a purely fermented product. Sufficient time should have been left for fermentation and maturation.
Mjødgård meads should have a delicate clean taste, which is given by the honey used, or traditional ingredients.
The production of Mjødgård mead should be sustainable, from local ingredients, gentle on honey.
In Denmark, just like in the Czech Republic and many other countries, honest and unfortunately more expensive mead has to compete with supermarket mead, which only looks like mead, is cheap and mixed in such a way that many people like it. Mjødgård meads gave me a taste and I believe they will appeal to you too.