Dansk Mjød Viking Blod

Brewed by Dansk Mjød
Style: Mead
Brande, Denmark

Lemonade aroma. Flavors of jasmine, lavender, sweet. Not what I expected, but tasty.

My first mead ever so I don’t know how it compares. Pours clear amber, sweet honey spice aroma and the taste is much the same. Enjoyable but not something I will go out of my way to try.

Pours still with sticky legs and the color of a copper penny. Wooden aroma with a spiced background. Caramel, whisky, greenery, honey, cereal... Honeycomb cereal to be closer to fact. Smooth, sweet and alcohol-potent, the flavor finds a honey sweetness with a touch of wood and a mild "green" sharpness. Thick, sweet, warming and palate-coating, it performs on all the levels I expect a fine mead to accomplish. Quite excellent, this ranks right up there with some of my favorite Polish meads. ~~~~~~~~~~ Purchased June 2007 from Grapes of Mirth, Columbus, OH.

This is a monster. Deep gold body. Huge alcohol in the nose, with some honey and spices in there somewhere. The taste is sweet honey up front that quickly fades to the alcohol burn in your throat, while the herbal/spice presence hits the back of your tongue. Huge flavor, huge alcohol, and huge hangover if you drink too quickly.

Sampled at the Alexi TN distributor’s tasting; thanks Jim Bird! Clear amber pour with clearish minimal head. Sweet and honey with a massively hot nose. Sticky sweet finish. Somewhat like potpouri I’m not a huge mead fan to start, but this one was particularly not that great.

ceramic large bottle at home. pours dark orange, no head. spritty, sweetish apricot aroma. i’d say it is a little too spritty, and i miss some honey. the apricot is real nice. flavor is sweet fruity honey, spicy flowery from the hibiscus, burns from the alc. flavor is unusually well balanced for a mead, slight citrussy or flowery notes balance the sweetness. palate is thick, but not too thick. overall a good mead, but i think it is a little bit to stingy from the alc, and perhaps also from the herbs.

The Viking Blod from Dansk Mjod is a Nordic honey wine brewed with hibiscus and hops. Already I am thoroughly intrigued, especially by the addition of two unusual ingredients as far as I can tell. As she fills my glass a bright clear hay color, delicate whiffs of honey, hibiscus, nectarines and peach, warm mulled spices, and cooked spiced apples seduce. With each aromatic embrace, I can see how the Vikings of yore considered mead a heavenly experience. It would be unladylike of me to keep good mead waiting, so I raise my glass for our first sweet, honey-coated kiss. Delicately sweet with succulent honeycomb, soft floral notes of hibiscus permeate her whole body without overwhelming the palate. Slightly viscous, Viking Blod coats my mouth and tongue in a melting harmony of honey, peaches, and spiced apples. Like a good mead, she doesn’t smother me with her sweetness, and any hops used in the process are wholly indiscernible to me. It could be the slightly brisk finish of this particular mead is a result of the hops used, but otherwise, nothing. This is not a detriment to her brew though, and I find my dram of Viking Blod gone way too soon. Sweet with delicate hibiscus notes, Dansk Mjod has certainly bottled a taste of Valhalla for me to savor.

While not all early beers of yore were anything exciting to drink, much less bring back to enjoy today, mead will always be a decadent reminder of some our brewing history’s best. For as long as man has been able to, he has brewed, and for as long as man continues to live and breathe, he will continue to brew. As long as our brewing heritage continues to include mead, myself and generations to come will be truly blessed.

Bottle at the otown throwdown. Golden amber color. INCREDIBLY STRONG. and really sweet with hone y and spicy hops. Want to have again when I don’t have to drive.