Hi all, I'm building a recipe in an amateurish attempt to recreate a mead, the make up of which was found by some Norwegian University after analyzing a wine skin found in a Viking grave.
I'm taking those components and adding a twist of my own, using a large amount of lingenberries to make the mead as red as possible. There's a story in the Poetic Edda's about the Odhroerir which was a mead made out of the blood of the first man Kvasir.
Anyway, the wineskin from the grave, showed that amoung other things, Yarrow and Sweet Gale were present.
I've been reading around, and there seems to be some different schools of thought about the quantities, duration and stage that these two herbs should be used.
Thought I'd check in here, and see if anyone has any experience with either, or hopefully both at the same time.
thanks for your time
I'm taking those components and adding a twist of my own, using a large amount of lingenberries to make the mead as red as possible. There's a story in the Poetic Edda's about the Odhroerir which was a mead made out of the blood of the first man Kvasir.
Anyway, the wineskin from the grave, showed that amoung other things, Yarrow and Sweet Gale were present.
I've been reading around, and there seems to be some different schools of thought about the quantities, duration and stage that these two herbs should be used.
Thought I'd check in here, and see if anyone has any experience with either, or hopefully both at the same time.
thanks for your time