Viking age brew The craft of brewing sahti farmhouse ale
Book - 2019
"Viking Age Brew takes readers on a lavishly illustrated tour of rustic brewhouses fueled by wood and passion. Sahti is a Nordic farmhouse ale that is still crafted in accordance with ancient traditions dating back to the Viking Age. It is often thought of as an oddity among beer styles, but this book demonstrates that a thousand years ago such ales were the norm in northern Europe, before the modern-style hopped beer we drink today reached the masses. Viking Age Brew is the first English-language book to describe the tradition, history, and hands-on brewing of this ale." -- Back cover.
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Chicago, Illinois :
Chicago Review Press Incorporated
[2019]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- viii, 232 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781641600477
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. Tradition, Culture, and History
- 1. An Introduction to Farmhouse Ales
- A Few Sips and the Bigger Picture
- 2. Brew Day with a Master
- Learning the Craft the Traditional Way
- 3. The Landscape of European Farmhouse Ales
- A Family Tree of Folk Beers
- 4. History of Farmhouse Ales
- What Beer Was Like a Thousand Years Ago
- 5. Drinking Sahti
- Is It a Beer Style?
- 6. Commercial Production
- Like Homemade?
- 7. Low-Alcohol Farmhouse Ales
- Nourishment for Work
- Part II. The Craft of a Farmhouse Brewer
- 8. Grain and Malt
- Once Brewers Did It All Themselves
- 9. Yeast
- That Mysterious Touch in Liquid Lore
- 10. Brewing Herbs
- Preserving, Filtering, and Flavoring Too
- 11. The Brewing Process
- How Sahti Is Born
- Part III. In your Kitchen or Brewery
- 12. Doing It Ourselves
- Tips for Brewing
- 13. Re-creating Medieval and Viking Ales
- Brew Like a Viking
- 14. Recipes
- Examples and Starting Points
- A Review of References and Bibliography
- Index