Behind Mjøderiet stands five firefighters from Bergen with a passion for mead - an ancient cultural drink that has only in the last few years begun to return to Nordic palates.
With backgrounds as home brewers and beer enthusiasts at various levels, we at Mjøderiet have ambitions to revitalize mead in Norway. We believe Norwegians are ready to take part in the international development where mead has made a comeback in several countries. We think mead is insanely exciting and is a drink with great potential.
Mjøderiet wants to spread knowledge about mead, revive the classic styles and experiment with new and exciting flavors. We want to have a foot in the old mead tradition and one in the new craft brewery culture, where we experiment with fruits and spices, different alcoholic strengths and different levels of carbonic acid.
The meeting room will have diversity.
We want quality, and genuine passion for precious drops.
For painstakingly collected honey from diligent bees. For real fruits and berries, for flavorful herbs and spices. And of course for exciting and unique flavor combinations.
We want to meet the people.
Meilby (14731) reviewed Black Cherry Passion from Mjøderiet 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle 250ml @ home
Pours dark reddish brown with no head. Aroma has notes of passion fruit, cherry, honey, prunes, floral and alcohol. Taste is medium to heavy sweet and light sour with a long warm, passion and cherry fruity vinous finish. Body is full, texture is oily to sticky with no carbonation.
Cunningham (15598) reviewed Apricot Seduction from Mjøderiet 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6.5
Glowing pale yellow color. Looks nice. Solid aroma. Some strange and a bit sour notes. Full body and a balanced nice sweetness. Lots of apricot in this one. Also some honey and marzipan. Dangerously well masked alcohol. Feels fresh and easy to drink.
[Bottle at Haandgemeng -17]
Cunningham (15598) reviewed Julemjød from Mjøderiet 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6.5
Clear shining deep golden color. Solid aroma. Christmas o hoi! Full body and soft to flat carbonation level. Pleasant balanced sweetness. Honey and a lovely Christmas spiced flavor. Damned good!
[Tap at Haandgemeng -17]
Cunningham (15598) reviewed Gere from Mjøderiet 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Clear shining golden color with a ehhhh no head. Solid aroma. Unusual fresh mead! Full body and soft to flat carbonation level. Pleasant balanced sweetness and a mild nice acidity in the back. Honey, yeast, floral and citric flavor. Damned good!
[Tap at Haandgemeng -17]
Beer5000 (11295) reviewed Bringebær from Mjøderiet 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Tap @ Både &, Kristiansand. Slightly unclear red body with a rather big, foamy and lacing white to slightly pink head. Quite much carbonation. Strong aroma of sweet raspberry juice and candy. Flavor is very sweet raspberry juice with raspberry candy and a little hint of acid in the background that practically drown in sweetness. Despite the sweetness and lack of honey flavor its actually quite nice and somehow have some kind of freshness instead of the sticky feeling you might expect from the first impression. I’m not a big fan of too much honey flavor, but in case I probably wish for some more honey and a little bit less candy. But it’s tasty and kinda interesting anyway.
Cunningham (15598) reviewed Kirsebær from Mjøderiet 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7
Cherry and mead = love. This combination worked really nice together. Lovely red color. Good aroma, and not sticky sweet. Nice balanced cherry, mead and almonds in the flavor. Dangerously well masked alcohol.
[On tap at Haandgemeng -17]
Cunningham (15598) reviewed Husets Mjød from Mjøderiet 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6
A really nice and tasty straight forward mead. No as sticky sweet as feared and dangerously well masked alcohol. Pleasant honey profile.
[Bottle at Haandgemeng -17]
gunnfryd (21926) reviewed Utmark from Mjøderiet 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Håndverkølfestivalen 2017. Orange color. Aroma is honey, forest. Flavor is honey, hay, forest, juniper. Interesting mead.
_angst_ (8410) reviewed Julemjød from Mjøderiet 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Bottle courtesy of Timo. Sparkling hazy yellow pour. Ginger & lemon nose. Subdued honey. Fairly sour & spicy taste. Wheat dough. Sparkling slightly dry mouthfeel. Not a favourite. Infected bottle according to the meadery. --- Beer merged from original tick of Julemjød on 24 May 2017 at 20:35 - Score: 4. Original review text: Ginger & lemon nose. Subdued honey. Fairly sour & spicy taste. Wheat dough. Sparkling slightly dry mouthfeel. Not a favourite.
_angst_ (8410) reviewed Husets Mjød from Mjøderiet 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle courtesy of Timo. Deep golden pour. Pleasant earthy honey character with plenty of overripe apples pears. Sweet, slightly floral & fairly fruity taste. Round tiny peppery mouthfeel. Plenty of pomme esters & spicy smokey phenols. --- Beer merged from original tick of Husets Mjød on 24 May 2017 at 20:46 - Score: 6. Original review text: Pleasant earthy honey character with plenty of overripe apples pears. Sweet, slightly floral & fairly fruity taste. Round tiny peppery mouth