Make Mead Like a Viking 10th Anniversary Edition

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New 10th Anniversary Edition! "A great guide . . . full of practical information and fascinating lore."-Sandor Ellix Katz, author of The Art of Fermentation A complete, practical, and entertaining guide to using the best ingredients and minimal equipment to create flavorful brews-including wildcrafted meads, bragots, t'ej, grog, honey beers, and more! Ancient societies brewed flavorful and healing meads, ales, and wines for millennia using only intuition, storytelling, and knowledge passed down through generations-no 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 mead-arguably the world's oldest fermented alcoholic beverage-can 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 t'ej, 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. Whether you've been intimidated by modern homebrewing's cost or seeming complexity in the past-and its focus on the use of unnatural chemicals-or are boldly looking to expand your current brewing and fermentation practices, Zimmerman's welcoming style and sp

• Binding: Hardcover

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