Dansk Mjød: South Florida’s Largest Mead Selection at The Twisted Vine

Some drinks have a story. Dansk Mjød has a thousand years of them.

The Twisted Vine at Skillshotz Gaming in Deerfield Beach carries nearly the complete Dansk Mjød lineup — making it the bar with the largest mead selection in South Florida. If you want to experience authentic Danish Viking mead in Broward or Palm Beach County, there is no better place to do it than right here.

Who Is Dansk Mjød?

Dansk Mjød — pronounced roughly “dansck myod,” with mjød being the Danish word for mead — is one of the most recognized commercial mead producers in Europe. Based in Billund in Denmark’s Jutland region, the meadery has been producing artisan mead since 1994 using proprietary brewing equipment developed entirely in-house. That distinction contributes to a production style the meadery describes as totally unique. Nobody else makes mead quite like Dansk Mjød.

Their products don’t chase trends. They don’t make session meads designed to appeal to craft beer drinkers. What Dansk makes is rooted in Viking-era mead tradition — strong, complex, deeply flavored, and built to be sipped slowly and savored. At 19% ABV across their main lineup these are meads that demand your attention and reward it.

Why The Twisted Vine Carries Nearly the Complete Dansk Lineup

Most bars that carry mead at all carry one or two bottles as a novelty. The Twisted Vine made a deliberate choice to go deep on Dansk Mjød specifically — stocking nearly their complete lineup so guests can explore the full range of what this Danish meadery produces in a single visit.

That decision reflects what Skillshotz is built around. This is a venue for people who take their experiences seriously — whether that’s a D&D campaign, a competitive TCG event, or the drinks they choose to enjoy while doing it. Carrying one token mead would feel out of place here. Carrying the full Dansk lineup feels exactly right.

In a state where Florida’s mead scene is concentrated in Tampa and Orlando, The Twisted Vine stands alone in South Florida as the destination for serious mead exploration.

The Dansk Lineup at The Twisted Vine

Viking Blod — Viking Blood

Viking Blod — meaning Viking Blood — gets its characteristic deep reddish color from dried hibiscus, evoking the blood Vikings spilled in fierce battles. The name is dramatic. The mead delivers on it.

Dansk Mjød combined traditional wildflower honey mead with dried hibiscus and ginger to create Viking Blod, giving it a distinctive color alongside a spicy, aromatic, and floral taste. It then spends six months aging in oak barrels with hops — a technique that borrows from both brewing and winemaking traditions to create a mead that defies easy categorization.

Tasting notes: Wildflower honey leads the nose followed by tart hibiscus florals and a subtle cherry-like fruitiness. A faint hop presence and warm ginger spice round out the aromatics. The entry is rich and sweet with bold honey quickly balanced by tangy hibiscus pulling the palate toward a drier mid-section. The six months of oak aging introduces structural dryness and woody complexity that most meads simply lack.

ABV: 19% · Style: Metheglin/Melomel hybrid, oak-aged with hops
Often compared to: A good Madeira — balancing sweetness with genuine complexity

Best for: Wine drinkers comfortable with dessert wines or fortified styles, anyone who wants to understand what serious traditional mead tastes like, D&D players who want something that genuinely feels like it belongs at the feast table.

Serving tip: Slightly chilled at 55–60°F in a tulip glass or small wine glass. Its 19% ABV and viscous body make it a strong candidate for sipping neat after a session, much like a dessert wine.

Odin’s Skull

The mythology behind Odin’s Skull is one of the most compelling stories in Norse legend. According to the legend of Suttung’s Mead, Odin stole the first mead from the giants. That mead was brewed from honey and the blood of Kvasir — the wisest human being who had ever lived — and whoever drank it received supernatural powers including exceptional poetic abilities.

Dansk Mjød cannot promise supernatural poetic skills after drinking Odin’s Skull. But the characteristic taste of cinnamon and apple is, in their words, unrivalled.

Odin’s Skull is fermented from a base of honey with malted barley and ale yeast — a process closer to braggot-style brewing than traditional still mead. The deliberate addition of hops introduces a dry, bitter counterpoint to the honey sweetness, alongside cinnamon and apple that give it a warm spiced dessert character.

Tasting notes: Intense honey dominates the nose joined by warm cinnamon bark and baked apple. The entry is rich and honey-forward, thick with toffee and dried fruit sweetness. Mid-palate, cinnamon and ginger spice build a genuine warming sensation while the hops arrive late to pull sweetness back toward balance. The finish is long and warming — honey sweetness lingers before giving way to a drier slightly tannic character with baking spices and a faint trace of citrus peel.

ABV: 19% · Style: Hopped spiced mead — braggot adjacent
Untappd rating: 4.2 across nearly 3,000 reviews
Often compared to: A warming spiced dessert wine with unusual structural complexity from the hops

Best for: Anyone who enjoys warming spiced drinks, whiskey or bourbon adjacent flavor profiles, D&D enthusiasts drawn to Viking drinking traditions — the mead literally has a Norse mythology origin story built into the bottle.

Serving tip: Slightly below room temperature at 55–60°F in a tulip glass or wine goblet. Given the 19% ABV this is a sipping mead — two ounces tells you everything you need to know.

Viking Blod vs Odin’s Skull — Which Should You Order?

Both are produced by Dansk Mjød at 19% ABV so strength isn’t the differentiator. The difference is in flavor direction:

Viking Blod — hibiscus and hops for a tart, floral-forward profile. Drier and more acidic. Closer to a fortified wine in character.

Odin’s Skull — cinnamon, apple, and a dessert-spice character. Generally sweeter and spicier with hop bitterness providing balance rather than dryness.

Our recommendation: Order both as a 2oz flight and compare them side by side. The contrast between the two is genuinely fascinating — same producer, same ABV, completely different drinking experiences.

Klapojster, Ribe Mjød, Vikingernes Mjød, GL Dansk Mjød, and More

The Twisted Vine carries nearly the complete Dansk Mjød lineup — not just Viking Blod and Odin’s Skull but Klapojster, Ribe Mjød, Vikingernes Mjød, GL Dansk Mjød, and more. Each represents a different expression of traditional Danish mead from the same Billund meadery.

This is the most comprehensive Dansk Mjød selection available at any bar in South Florida. If you want to explore the full range of what this meadery produces — from their lightest expressions to their most complex — The Twisted Vine is the place to do it.

Ask our bar staff about what’s currently available and what they’d recommend based on what you already drink. The Dansk lineup rewards exploration and each pour tells a different part of the same Viking heritage story.

Why Dansk Belongs at Skillshotz

The connection between Dansk mead and the world Skillshotz was built for isn’t accidental. D&D, fantasy gaming, and Viking culture share deep roots — the same mythology, the same imagery, the same sense of gathering around a table with your companions for something that matters.

When a Dungeon Master dims the lights, fog rolls across the table, and combat red fills the room — reaching for a glass of Viking Blod feels like the most natural thing in the world. That’s not marketing. That’s just mead being exactly what it has always been.

How to Order at The Twisted Vine

First-timer?
Start with a 2oz flight of Viking Blod and Odin’s Skull side by side. Two ounces of each gives you a complete picture of what Dansk does and which direction your palate prefers.

Know what you want?
Ask for Viking Blod if you prefer something tart, floral, and complex. Ask for Odin’s Skull if you prefer something warm, spiced, and sweet.

Want to go deeper?
Ask our bar staff about the full Dansk lineup. Klapojster, Ribe Mjød, Vikingernes Mjød, and GL Dansk Mjød each offer something different — and all are worth exploring if you’re serious about understanding traditional Danish mead.

Visit The Twisted Vine

The Twisted Vine is the themed bar at Skillshotz Gaming in Deerfield Beach — South Florida’s home for serious mead. We’re open Tuesday through Friday from 5:30 PM and Saturday through Sunday from 2:00 PM. No game booking required — just show up, sit down, and let us pour you something worth drinking.

Find us at 616 SE 10th Street, Deerfield Beach, FL 33441. Contact us to ask about our current Dansk selection or what’s on tap this week.

New to mead entirely? Our complete guide to what mead is covers the history, styles, and everything you need to order with confidence. Want to see how Dansk compares to our other mead brand? Read our Crafted Artisan Meadery guide.