A rich and sweet dark mead with a complex sweetness that is balanced by fresh acidity and a slightly herbal bitterness. This special drink is the result of a collaboration between Mjødgård and Viking Museum Ladby.
We used our basic recipe for pure mead, in which we infuse fresh leaves from the Icelandic mountain angelica herb. We wanted to pay tribute to the king of Ladby and as a mead flavoring we chose an herb that was used in Viking times. It is said that angelica was used as a medicine and spice in food during the Viking Age. Angelica extract increases blood circulation and warms, is strengthening and helps against poor blood circulation. It was an important vitamin C supplement for the Vikings. However, this is not a medical prescription, so we are only passing on what was passed down as folklore among the people.
Around the year 925, a Viking king was buried in Ladby in Kerteminde. His magnificent Viking ship and weapons were stored with him. Today, the shipwreck, as a unique cultural heritage, can still be experienced in an authentic location in the Ladby Viking Museum.
A mead that you can enjoy with desserts, with coffee or on its own.
Mead can normally only be bought in Mjødgård and the Ladby Viking Museum.
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.
Metheglin
Metheglin is a type of mead with added (maturated) spices and herbs.
Producer Mjødgård
A popular Danish mead producer
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.