Named after the Viking Ship Museum’s latest reconstruction of a Viking ship, Estrid Byrding, the mead is a sweet mead that is delicately balanced with the tartness of sea buckthorn and a dark hint of walnut and oak.
The shared name is not a coincidence. We had harvested a good portion of chipped shavings during the construction of the Viking ship Estrid Byrding, which was launched in the spring of 2022. We have specially treated the shavings to bring out the vanilla and oak smoke flavor. The mead has then drawn on the shavings to create its unique flavor.
Estrid Byrding’s Mead has already achieved great recognition, even though it has only just been ‘launched’. It earned a prestigious silver medal at Mjøden Day 2022.
The incredibly beautiful stern from Estrid Byrding adorns the label on the bottle.
Alcohol percentage: 15% al.vol.
Content 35 cl.
Manufacturing
Estrid Byrdings Mead is an exclusive dessert wine fermented with honey, apple juice, sea buckthorn and walnut. These are raw materials that we know were present in Denmark in the Viking Age and were used for cooking and making mead. Estrid Byrding’s Mead is therefore a reinterpretation of the legendary Viking Age drink.
We don’t have any recipes or remains of mead from the Viking Age. They drank it all themselves, unlike the Bronze Age and Iron Age people who gave mead as grave gifts to the afterlife, but in collaboration with the Viking Ship Museum, we have selected the raw materials for brewing that researchers know the Vikings appreciated.
The Viking ship ‘Estrid Byrding’
‘Estrid Byrding’ is the museum’s latest reconstruction of one of the five Viking ships excavated at Skuldelev in 1962: Skuldelev 3.
Skuldelev 3 is a small, elegant and sturdy merchant ship, built to carry goods in the inner Danish waters and the Baltic Sea. The ship is the best preserved of the five Viking ships found in Roskilde Fjord and is built from Danish oak.
Therefore, the ‘Estrid Byrding’ is of course also built from Danish oak, which has now become both a new, fantastic Viking ship – but also an ingredient used in the production of Snoremark’s tasty mead. Read more about Estrid Byrding
Info:
Contains 350 ml, equivalent to about 8 glasses
Alcohol: 15% al.vol.
Shelf life: after opening approx. 3-6 months, keep in a cool place. Unopened: here the mead can be aged as a quality wine and develops with further richness and complexity.
