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The Viking Cooking Experience

Page history last edited by Skallagrimssonr 14 years, 3 months ago

This page is dedicated to realizing Viking recipes and documenting results. Recipes used on this page can be found in The Viking World Cookbook 


Brewing

   Ragna-Rock Mead

 

The recipe for Ragna-Rock Mead can be found here.

 

Ingredients:

 

Warm Honey

12 pounds of honey, warmed

         

Five Gallons of Water

5 gallons of water

         

Yeast and its Energizer

Yeast and Yeast Energizer,

mixed in water

 

 

Step 1: Mix water and honey 

 

Add 12 lbs. of Honey

               Adding Honey

        I let the honey sit in warm water for about 10-15 minutes so it became runny and poured much more easily. After the bottles were empty, I took a bit of water and shook it around in the honey jars, making sure to get all of the precious sugar out.

 

 

Step 2: Add the energizer

 

Add Yeast Energizer

     It is important to add the yeast energizer (or nutrient) before you add the yeast. When the yeast is finally added into the mixture, it needs to have something to feed off of.

 

 

Step 3: Stir well

 

     Stir the water, honey, and energizer together. I don’t know why this is an important step. Perhaps having ingredients mixed together thoroughly increases the desired result in yeast.

Stir

 

 

Step 4: Bring on the yeast

 

Add Yeast

     “Pitch” the yeast much like the energizer. Important note: pitching means slowly pour the yeast as close to the center of the mixture as possible. Again, I’m not exactly sure of the reason for this, but it probably has something to do with the reactivity of the yeast. To make sure I got all of the yeast, I left a bit of water in the bottom of the cup and swirled it around before adding it, too, to the mixture.

 

 

Step 5: Store and wait

 

     After all ingredients are added, stir the mixture for about two minutes to make sure the yeast is activated and spread completely throughout. The fermentation took a little less than two months total. I decided not to filter the mead (mostly because I couldn’t wait to drink it).

     I found the mead did not bubble (showing signs of fermentation) as much as the original recipe said it would. This made me nervous, but it turned out to be fine. The mead fermented and was mighty tasty.

Cover and Store

 

 

          In general, the mead was well received. I, for one, thought it was much better (and much different) than I was expecting. Before I tried my first glass, I tried to smell the mixture, but the only scent coming off of it was yeast. The taste was much sweeter than that—I could hardly taste the yeast at all. I expect filtering would further decrease the yeast. Most people who tried it gave the thumbs up, which I suspect means success. 

 

 


 

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Comments (2)

Robert Wordhoard said

at 12:48 pm on Dec 18, 2009

Awesome job Cari. It's helpful to see a stp-by-step picture-driven explanation. Thumbs up!

Skallagrimssonr said

at 1:06 am on Dec 18, 2009

The mead rocked, thanks for sharing! Nice pictures; that's a lot of honey.

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