A complete guide to using the best ingredients and minimal equipment to create fun and flavorful brews
Ancient societies brewed flavorful and healing meads ales and wines for millennia using only intuition storytelling and knowledge passed down through generationsno fancy expensive equipment or degrees in chemistry needed. In Make Mead Like a Viking homesteader fermentation enthusiast and self-described Appalachian Yeti Viking Jereme Zimmerman summons the bryggjemann of the ancient Norse to demonstrate how homebrewing meadarguably the worlds oldest fermented alcoholic beveragecan be not only uncomplicated but fun.?
Armed with wild-yeast-bearing totem sticks readers will learn techniques for brewing sweet semi-sweet and dry meads melomels (fruit meads) metheglins (spiced meads) Ethiopian tej flower and herbal meads braggots honey beers country wines and even Viking grog opening the Mead Hall doors to further experimentation in fermentation and flavor. In addition aspiring Vikings will explore:
"??? The importance of local and unpasteurized honey for both flavor and health benefits;
"??? Why modern homebrewing practices?? materials?? and chemicals work but aren??t necessary;
???? How to grow and harvest herbs and collect wild botanicals for use in healing?? nutritious?? and magical meads?? beers?? and wines;
???? Hops?? recent monopoly as a primary brewing ingredient and how to use botanicals other than hops for flavoring and preserving mead?? ancient ales?? and gruits;?
???? The rituals?? mysticism?? and communion with nature that were integral components of ancient brewing and