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Kjelärd Mead is a mead hall in progress. This site references alcoholic beverages currently in development and not yet for sale.

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Colorado Springs · Veteran Owned

We're Close To Selling Legally

The mead is made. The flavors are dialed in. What's left is securing a licensed space and completing the process — help us cross that finish line.

The Honest Truth

The Mead Is Ready. The License Isn't.

To legally sell what we make, Colorado requires us to secure a licensed space and carry it through the full approval process. The mead's done — this is the last real step between us and pouring a legal glass.

A Real, Fundable Gap

This isn't an open-ended ask. It's a specific bridge to get licensed — and once we are, the business starts paying for itself.

Support That Speeds This Up

Every dollar shortens the runway between where we are now and the day we can legally hand you a bottle.

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Who's Behind This

Started By A Father And Son. Still Run That Way.

Veteran Owned & Operated
Nordic Heritage Craft

Kjelärd Mead started the way a lot of good things do — a father and son making mead together as a shared hobby, not a business plan. The name itself comes from "Kjeldgaard," a family name, not just a word that sounded Nordic. We're based in Colorado Springs, close to Fort Carson, Peterson and Schriever Space Force Bases, and the Air Force Academy — this city's roots are military roots, and so are ours. Our flavors are ready. Multiple locations are interested. What's left is securing our licensed space and completing the process — and we'd rather bring you in now, at the finish line, than only meet you once the doors are already open.

How To Close The Gap

Three Ways To Get Us Selling Sooner

STEP ONE

Fund the License

Every dollar goes toward securing our licensed space and completing the process, start to finish.

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STEP TWO

Join the Family

Get first word the day we're licensed to sell — plus real updates on the process, not just marketing fluff.

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STEP THREE

Wear the Brand

Coasters and stickers now, glassware coming soon — small ways to back us that don't touch the license itself.

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In Development

Our Signature Flavors

Not for sale yet — but these are the batches we're perfecting for the day we open the doors.

Ren
Pure / Traditional
Simple, honest mead — nothing added, nothing hiding.
Festlig
Mulled / Festive
Cinnamon, orange peel, allspice & nutmeg — a Christmas carol in a glass.
Søthet
Habanero / Orange
The heat. A fiery punch with a sweet, citrus finish.
Eik
Oak / Reserve
Our Ren, rested a year in new oak. Patience, bottled.
Perfecting
Mørk
In The Works
Still being dialed in.
Worth the wait.
The Shop

Rep The Hall Before It Exists

Coaster Set

Raven Coasters

$14.00
Sticker Pack

Crest Sticker Pack

$6.00
Glassware

Etched Tasting Glass

Coming Soon