Make Mead Like A Viking: Traditional Techniques For Brewing Natural, Wild-Fermen [Paperback]

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!

“A great guide . . . full of practical information and fascinating lore.”—Sandor Ellix Katz, author of The Art of Fermentation

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.

Inside, readers will learn techniques for brewing:

• Sweet, semi-sweet, and dry meads
• Melomels (fruit meads)
• Metheglins (spiced meads)
• Ethiopian t’ej (honey wine)
• Flower and herbal meads
• Bragots
• Honey beers
• Country wines
• Viking grog

And there’s more for aspiring Vikings to explore, including:

• The importance of local and unpasteurized honey for both flavor and health benefits
• What 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, l“¨