Historical mead
In partnership with the Danish National Museum’s scientists, we have recreated two mead variants from the Bronze Age. Through analyzes of dried-up remains from Bronze Age burial gifts, the scientists have found two varieties of mead.
One the Bronze mead is the oldest variety and is brewed on linden honey and the plant meadow sweat and can be dated to about 2,000 years BC. The other variant the Egtved mead is 1,000-1500 years younger and is of the braggot type, where the alcohol is produced on a mix of sugar from honey and malt.
To get as close to the original method and taste, these two varieties are brewed on custom-made pottery from Florence.
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Bronze mead / Meadowsweet 350ml
A time travel 4,000 years back. With bronze mead, Snoremark, in collaboration with the National Museum of Denmark, has recreated a copy of the oldest finds of mead in Denmark.
In style, it can best be compared to a semi-dry white wine. -
The Egtved mead is a re-creation of the mead that two distinguished women from antiquity brought with them to the grave 3,500 and 2,000 years ago. On the basis of dried-up remains in the grave gifts from the to graves, researchers from the Danish National Museum have found that the mead was brewed on cranberries, porse, honey and malt, which means that it is the oldest find of the mead type braggot in Denmark. The tast can best be compared to a semi-dry rose wine.
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Vi drikker mjød og bliver klogere
Rundvisning og smagning har på vores juli og august arrangementer fokus på de to genskabte mjød fra bronzealderen samt den arkæologiske og historiske viden om mjød og dens betydning gennem historien. Der er desuden smagsprøver på Snoremark pribelønnede moderne versioner af mjød og cider.
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