Hyldeblomst Likør

50 cl 23 % vol. Liqueur with elderflowers In 2024, the elderflowers sprouted almost 3 weeks early. In other years, the elderflower picking has taken place at the same time as the People's Festival on Bornholm and the cooking competition Sol over Gudhjem the following week. But in 2024, the elderflowers were finished picking by the end of June. In mid-June, I experienced (almost) being attacked by a male pheasant. I think he must have been lying on a nest or protecting his female... Pheasants have a breeding season in May-June, and their nests are on the ground, so it may well be that the couple thought it was smart to build a nest in the middle of the tall grass. In any case, the scenario developed incredibly quickly to resemble a scene from Jurassic Park, where a flock of tiny compsognathus's chase the main characters through the tall grass. When the pheasant first started to move a little dino-like, hissing at me and getting threateningly close, I ran away. This year's elderflowers were also picked in Ralf's garden in Gudhjem, at Lis and her husband's in Saltuna and on the Danish Nature Agency's areas. And it is in the Danish Nature Agency's areas out by the old settlements from the Stone Age that I can always hear the lark, see a buzzard, meet deer, pheasants, hares and other wild animals.