Spring Mead is part of a limited series of seasonal meads from the Danish meadery Mjødgård.
Spring Mead is part of a limited series of meads produced by the Danish meadery Mjødgård, with an emphasis on natural character and seasonal inspiration. This mead is built on a base of clear honey sweetness, but its flavour profile is led by drier aromas and notes reminiscent of forest floors, heathlands, and the scent of grain.
The sweetness is balanced by a sharp acidity and mild bitterness.
It pairs particularly well with savoury dishes. It complements bold flavours such as venison and works beautifully with smoked meat and fish. While not suited to very sweet desserts, it goes well with desserts based on nuts and dried fruit without excessive added sugar. When it comes to cheese, Spring Mead is remarkably versatile — it suits both mild and mature varieties of all kinds.
Serve slightly chilled, at 10–12 °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.
Metheglin
Metheglin is a type of mead with added (maturated) spices and herbs.
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
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.