Wholesale King's Mead 3. – Sweyn Forkbeard

Sven Forkbeard – with sloe, meadowsweet and oak. Fresh, tart and lightly spiced. Good for Easter and Christmas tables, salty and fatty meat dishes, heavy desserts like traditional apple cakes and pies. Award-winning mead internationally Bronze: Mead Madness Cup 2024 – category: fruit and ‘spices’ mead. Sven’s kingly mead is a solid mead brewed with the Scandinavian meadowsweet. Sloe berries give the mead a tartness that creates the impression of a dry mead, with a fresh fruit flavor. The meadowsweet comes forward nicely in the mead and gives a spicy aftertaste that lingers in the mouth. Accompanying our kingly mead is a handsome 10-page booklet, telling the story of each mead in the series. Sven’s mead is the third of 3 meads in our Kingly Mead series. Aroma – Pure honey, heather, straw, dried wood. Taste – Heather honey, eating apples, redcurrant, quince. Sven, to us, is the Nordic war-king who, unlike his father, wanted a return to the old virtues with Viking raids and Nordic self-awareness. At the same time he has been a fiery and aggressive lord. In our interpretation we chose to focus on Sven’s striving for the old virtues. Therefore we returned to our sacred herb, meadowsweet, which has been used in mead since the Bronze Age. To give the mead a bit of tart “anger” and something as sharp as Sven’s sword, we chose sloe, which also grew in Viking times. The combination of the sour sloe berry, which gives the mead a dry and tart expression, and the sweet, spicy meadowsweet has resulted in a mead with a distinctive character. Sven Forkbeard is a semi-sweet mead which, despite a very intensely sweet aroma, is much milder on the palate, as the sweetness is tempered by intense fruity acidity and a tannic bitterness. It is the least full-bodied in the king series and has a much more raw and rustic expression than its predecessors. Sven’s mead is fresh, tart and with a lovely aftertaste of the familiar meadowsweet that lingers in the mouth. Serving suggestions: The high acidity and bitterness in Sven Forkbeard make it suitable for savory dishes despite its intense sweetness. In savory cuisine it works best in combination with very salty and fatty meat dishes, such as confit pork and pork cracklings. Tart but heavy desserts like traditional apple cakes, apple pies or desserts made with autumn berries are its best friends among desserts. Sven Forkbeard should preferably be served in glasses that accentuate its sweetness; port glasses and tulip glasses provide the best experience of the mead.