With the aim of making use of underutilized Icelandic ingredients such as crowberries and blueberries, Ragnheiður Axel Eyjólfsdóttir and Liljar Már Þorbjörnsson have founded an Icelandic brewery. Their first two products, a blueberry beer and a crowberry wine were presented last Thursday at Skúli Craft Bar.
The new brewery, Og Natura, makes wine and beer using wild Icelandic ingredients through a natural process without the use of chemicals or preservatives.
The crowberry wine, called Axel, is the only wine being produced in Iceland at the moment. It was developed by Eyjólfsdóttir. "I think crowberries are underutlized. They're interesting for wine making because they contain tannin and oils which you can't find in other Icelandic berries," she explains and likes to describe the wine as a nature wine although by strict standards it's not exactly a nature wine because it contains sweetness from dates and apples.
Source: icelandmonitor.mbl.is
