Marlobobo

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Only about 3 weeks left until all the fun breaks loose in Copenhagen🎉

Hope to see you all in person at our stand, and at our events in the city!

Thursday 9th of May - Bottle release and pours at

Sunday 12th of May - Bottle release at

Expect limited releases and MAGNUMS❤️

MERCH ALERT FOR NORWEGIAN COSTUMERS (Some glasses will be shipped to our international partners):

Vi har en limitert mengde Marlobobo-glass i vinterutgave på vei fra Rastal i Tyskland! Vi rakk dessverre ikke få det hele i havn før jul, men vi åpner for forhåndsbestillinger for de som ønsker allerede nå.

De rommer ca. 230 ml fulle og har linje på 60 ml som er perfekt for mjød.

I første omgang selges glassene i pakker a 6 stk til 600 kr + 120 kr frakt. Dette er for å sørge for at de kommer hele frem! Evt. kan de hentes i Sande. Da kan de enklere kjøpes i valgfritt antall.

For bestilling, send fullt navn, addresse og telefonnummer på DM/MESSENGER. Førstemann til mølla! Ønsker noen vinåpner eller t-skjorte i tillegg, gi beskjed.

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What a day! We had a special visit all the way from Japan. Masahiro from Uchu Brewing spending the day with us in Sande for our annual Stevnsbær cherry harvest.

9 people, 9 hours = 1050 kg of Stevnsbær cherries prepped, sorted and handsquished to fill two tanks. One spontaneously fermented and one carbonic macerated.

The last 3000 kg arrives tomorrow and will be pressed to juice pre-fermentation 🍒🍒🍯🍯

Warmed up with 500 kg of Fanal cherries this week. Getting ready for the real work when we recieve 4000 kg of Stevnsbær cherries next week🍒🍯

Most the of the Fanal cherries are being spontaneously fermented. Haven't decided on the time of skin contact yet. Tasting every day 😉

Fresh arrival of Saga strawberries! Some of these were gigantic. Fruit season 2023 is finally here!

Soon soaking in honey🍯

What a weekend! Thank you to everyone that came by and queued - Our hands are sore from all the corkscrewing and we can't seem to wipe the smiles off our faces.

Thanks to the organizers and top-notch volunteers for the great vibes and hospitality ❤️💚💙💛 2024

Happy easter! 🌞🐥

We've been using the holidays to empty and bottle new barrel aged mead releases + driving the used barrels to to fill them with our first barley wine 🤎 In addition to the bourbon barrels that had previously held some of our melomels (wish you could have smelled those when being filled..), we also filled new maple syrup- and rum barrels. And then we had to drive the newly filled barrels back to storage🤞

We never get tired of searching for and explore new fruit varieties. It's not the first time we are using these, but it's the first time we are making a product solely from this strawberry variety, as we haven't been able to source enough before this year.

Saga is a fairly new, Norwegian strawberry variety with a great sugar/acid balance, incredible aromatics and a really dark, beautiful color throughout its flesh. 🍓🍓🍓

Picking at perfect ripeness also makes a world of difference in getting the most flavor out of the fruit. Thanks to working with an incredible, local fruit farmer this was possible. We picked up cases with only perfectly ripened Saga strawberries throughout the season and immediately vacuum sealed and froze them to get enough berries to make a small batch.

After thawing and cold soaking for a day, the strawberries were pressed and added some really good pails of honey we had saved for something special. After followed a long and cool fermentation, conducted to retain as much flavor and nuances as possible.

We can't wait to share this with you when it's ready! 🍓🍯

Thank you so much to everyone that has been with us since the start, and everyone that has tried us for the first time this year. Both customers, distributors and retailers/bars/restaurants. We appreciate every single one of you, and are so grateful that we are able to keep on pushing forward thanks to everyone's support 🙏❤️ To everyone that celebrates Christmas - Happy holidays! And all the best for the new year! 🍾🎄🎉🎆

2022 has been a lot of fun, and a lot of work. Releasing 35 meads (were only 3 had been released previously in earlier vintages), 4 beers and 6 fruited Pét-Nats. Attending legendary festivals like and were huge highlights of the year. But also getting our products all the way to Japan, South Korea and China have been surreal.

In 2023, we are really looking forward to attend more wild festivals, as well as moving into our much needed new production facility before the 2023 fruit harvest knocks on the door. It's been huge steps in such a small amount of time - Moving from a tiny space at only 35 m2 were we produced our first vintages and barely managed to move around at the end. To our current location (approx 250 m2) a little more than a year ago. Which is already filled to the brim with tanks, barrels and equipment.

I guess the cat is out of the bag! You'll be seeing us in Copenhagen in May .2023 ❤️

It feels surreal having attended on the other side of the bar for so many years. Dreams do come true❤️

The building of our new production facility is happening as we speak! The foundation is soon finished - hopefully before the winter sets in 🤞❄️☃️

The biggest newspaper in Norway (VG) really loves mead❤️🍯🍒

After testing 165 beverages for Christmas, they highlighted one of our meads as one of the three best products. They also gave great scores to the second product we participated with.

The whole article can be read here:
https://www.vg.no/forbruker/mat-og-drikke/i/JQbR0R/stor-vg-test-julens-beste-og-verste-oel

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We've had the most amazing time at Billie's Craft Beer Fest in Antwerp this weekend. Thank you to everyone that came by to either taste or talk, and to everyone that queued up at our booth long before new products were served. You are the fu***ng bestest of the best! 🙏❤️

We are blown away by how well the festival was organized, the level of enthusiasm from both volunteers and guests, and the quality of every single attending brewery. We've traveled home with many new acquaintances and friends.

And last, but most importantly, a huge thanks to the man behind it all, Stéfan. For inviting us and putting together such an incredible festival. We wish we got to meet Billie in person, but we felt he was with us in spirit and in beer! ❤️

Photo credit: Photos number #1, #3 and #6 taken by the most charismatic and wild photographer, Kris De Meester, who photographed for the festival the whole weekend.

The first mead ready from the 2022-vintage is about to hit your nearest mead slinger🌍🍯🍒 It's called Stevnsberry Nouveau (2022) and is a semi-carbonic macerated cherry mead with wildflower honey.

Whole cherries were put in a fermenter and closed off without any yeast added. The weight of all the berries crushes the cherries at the bottom of the tank, while the ones higher up remains whole. The crushed cherries starts spontaneously fermenting and releasing CO2, giving anaerobic conditions inside the tank, which in turn causes the whole, intact cherries to start an intracellular, enzymatic fermentation of the juice inside each single berry.

This gives a cherry mead with less tannins and a very fruity, bright and perfumy cherry flavor and aroma. Vibrant and easy-drinking, yet complex.

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Another new mead is currently being packed on pallets to leave the motherland🚛🌍

SCULLY'S DREAM (2021) is a blackberry and raspberry mead with vanilla beans.

Being closely related to each other, blackberries and raspberries are a natural perfect match. The berries were fermented separately, and thoughtfully blended to what we felt was the perfect expression of both berries together. Letting this blend further rest on vanilla beans of two origins (Ugandan and Madagascan) gave it additional layers compared to its partner in crime, MULDER'S DREAM

They both share the same bright, acidic and juicy fruit expression. Already being kept in check by Norwegian wildflower honey, this release is further smoothened out by vanilla with its creamy and fluffy notes of caramelized marshmallows.

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A new product we have waited for long to share with everyone around the 🌍:

Introverted Escapism (2021) is a gin barrel-aged raspberry mead.

Ripe and juicy Glen Ample raspberries were drenched in wildflower honey and fermented slow and cool with a yeast chosen to preserve all the nuances both ingredients brought to the table. Not a droplet of water was added.

Three months later, we got our hands on a very special gin barrel we are not allowed to state the name of, and filled it to the brim with the glorious nectar above. The barrel wasn't juniper forward at all, but bursted of soft, sweet citrus fruits and floral botanicals. The product took a six-month break in this very special and fragrant gin barrel, before it was ready to come back even stronger and be released to an extroverted world.

As well as obviously bursting of fresh raspberries drenched in honey, the barrel brought it to another dimension in terms of complexity. Giving away new flavors and nuances from each and every sip. From the sweet and fruity notes of fragrant lemon verbena, citrus rinds, spruce shoots and coriander seeds.To bright notes of forest berries like lingonberries and cranberries, and flowery notes of jasmine, sage and lavender.

Take your time with this one, and savor all the different nuances! ❤️🤯

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More new stuff out and about🌍:

BUMFUZZIZZLE VANIZZLE (2021) is a blackberry mead with vanilla beans

Made with a portion of caramelized heather honey, and conditioned on vanilla beans from both Uganda and Madagascar.

Lending complex notes of caramelized marshmallow fluff inbetween the bright and juicy bursts of blackberries. Their bold acidity is tempered by sweet and sticky wildflower- and heather honey, giving the mead both floral, caramelized and slightly earthy characteristics.

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Blended a bourbon BA imperial stout from the barrel stock we have cooking at ❤️❤️ Set for release early 2023.

Two different base beers, two different ages. Split between 10 bourbon barrels from five different producers:
- Woodford Reserve Double Oak
- Widow Jane 10 yo
- Wild Turkey
- Buffalo Trace
- Heaven Hill

6 barrels were picked for the final blend

CARE FULL (2021) is a product that will soon be shipped out internationally, and that we are extremely happy with. 🍎🍯🍏

It's an apple mead made with caramelized honey and apple reduction, vanilla beans and cinnamon.

Bearing resemblance to a vanilla cinnabun with sticky apple glaze.🥧

The fruit base of the mead consists of a blend of fresh and fragrant Sunrise apple juice, together with a deep and complex apple syrup made by reducing apple juice for hours and hours. As it was not complex enough on its own, only caramelized honey were added (mainly wildflower, but also some heather for additional complexity).

After fermenting slowly and maturing for many months, it was conditioned on Ugandan and Madagascan vanilla beans, as well as a pinch of the most flavorful cinnamon sticks we could get our hands on. Voila!

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We're getting closer to shipping out new stuff!🌍🚛

One of them will be Bourbon BA Stevnsberry (2021), which is a barrel aged variant of our beloved Stevnsbær-based cherry mead🍒🍯. It was put to rest in a Buffalo Trace barrel for 7 months before it was bottled, labeled and waxed.

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The harvest of Stevnsbær cherries🍒🍒 Our favorite week of the year, although being extremely exhausting😌😍 Standing knee deep in the best cherries the world has to offer, day and night to fill up our tanks.

Thank you to all friends and family for participating❤️ And all of our loyal customers letting us buy more and more cherries every year! We cherish you all! 🙏🍒🍷

More mead to look out for: LEVITATING GRAVITY (2021) - A strawberry and plum mead with vanilla beans and cinnamon.

Bearing resemblance to a freshly baked pie with fresh strawberry and plum topping.

The fruit base of the mead consists of a blend of two varities of strawberries (Saga and Korona) and mallard plums. Fermented seperately and blended.

To pie-ify it, the mead was conditioned on Ugandan and Madagascan vanilla beans, as well as a pinch of the most flavorful cinnamon sticks we could get our hands on.
🍓🍑🍯🥰

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Just as last year, one of our beekeeper friends placed his beehives in the garden of
the house I grew up in. Being placed just as the linden trees covering the area started blooming, it will hopefully result in a lot of linden honey.

This year looks good for varietal honey and some exciting traditionals! 🍯🍯🍯

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Another newsie is ready to be poured around the world: GHLORPH (2021) - A raspberry, cherry and black currant mead.

All the berries were fermented seperately, and blended thoughtfully to what we felt was the perfect expression of all the berries together.

It has a bright and juicy fruit expression, similar to freshly picked berries. Taking your tastebuds on a trip through three of the most flavorful berries around, amplified by complex honey notes from the Norwegian wildflower honey. 🍯🥰

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One of our most special products this year has been popping up in very limited quantities in different countries recently.🛸🧳🍯

PUFFY SELECT (2021) is a cloudberry mead with wildflower honey from Sveen Vestre and cloudberries from the mountains of Østerdalen. Handpicked and meticulously selected at perfect ripeness.

The berries got soaked in honey and went through a three-month-long, slow and cold fermentation to preserve every nuance of the mega-exclusive cloudberries.

The result is an intense expression of freshly picked cloudberries straight from the plant. The cloudberry aroma fills the room and the flavor lingers forever.

Only 114 bottles were made and numbered by hand.

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MERCH ALERT FOR NORWEGIAN COSTUMERS:

Vi har en limitert mengde Marlobobo-glass tilgjengelig for salg! De rommer ca. 230 ml fulle og har linje på 100 ml som er perfekt for mjød.

I første omgang selges glassene i pakker a 6 stk til 540 kr + 100 kr frakt. Dette er for å sørge for at de kommer hele frem! Evt. kan de hentes i Sande eller Horten ved avtale.

Ved interesse, send fullt navn, addresse og telefon på DM/MESSENGER. Førstemann til mølla!

Om du kunne sett for deg å kjøpe færre. Send en beskjed, så skal vi se hva vi får til 😊

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Our local newspaper, , wrote a really nice article about us. It's only a couple of years ago that most of our batches were made in 10-20L plastic carboys. And now we own 15 stainless steel tanks ranging from 300-1100L. Thank you so much for the support, everyone🙏 We love you all!❤️

https://www.sandeavis.no/bryggeriet-er-blant-verdens-beste-planen-er-a-flytte-til-nye-lokaler-i-sande-i-2023/s/5-72-194085