Spicy, delicate mead and barrel aged with a deep spicy richness. The mead has a light sweetness that gives way to spicy notes - both in the first impression and in the long aftertaste, where barrel aging dominates the experience.
This mead, along with Ladbykongens Kvanmjød and Ren Mjød, is our third special batch that we made in collaboration with the museum. Mead can normally only be bought in Mjødgård and the Viking Museum Ladby.
In the beautiful field of North Funen, next to the Kerteminde fjord, stands the majestic ship mound and the thrones of King Ladba. A ship mound, unique in the history of Denmark, where this great man for Denmark was buried on his expensive ship with rich equipment as early as 925.
Mjødgård's brewer has created a series of meads in honor of this great man, and Ladbykongens Porsemjød is the latest in the line.
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.