Viking's Blood | Cherry Juice Melomel | Easy Recipe

This easy recipe it made using pasteurized cherry juice for a melomel base. Viking's Blood is quite tart and sweet, but is very tasty. I did mess up on the honey amounts and 3lbs should be sufficient to 1 gallon of cherry juice.

[@stephenhegarty6032]

That’s interesting vessel and airlock and looks awesome recipe 👏🏻

[@thebrewtank7665]

The vessel is called a Little Big Mouth Bubbler and is sold by Northern Brewer Co. It's a good hobby/experimenting fermenter, but when you do whole fruit it can be a pain. The one drawback I mostly get is that I have to fill the airlock every few days when it's fermenting rapidly. But, it's such easy access that it's not too bad like an S or three piece where I have to remove a cover.

[@JovinGhoul23]

So, I'm really loving this whole process. Just started my home brewing journey, and quite excited and pleased with the results! Had a question about one thing though, when you said "Say our Yaar Caulk, and pitch" pitching is of course adding the yeast to the carboy, but what did the rest mean? I assume it's probably Norse in origin, but I could be totally wrong lol.

[@thebrewtank7665]

You're right! It's Nordic and spelled Gjærkauk. Basically waking up the yeast and cheering them on to feast on the sugars. It's just a fun little ritual I borrowed. I just do a booming "Feast!" For mine.

[@JovinGhoul23]

@@thebrewtank7665 Awesome!! I love the history of it

[@danajoyner8156]

Good. I love it.

[@dockofthebaycountrywines69]

Looking good!

[@thebrewtank7665]

This is probably one of the tastiest ones I've made with simple ingredients. Too bad they don't sell the juice in higher volumes.

[@D1rtyCanad1an]

Do you have a pdf version of your recipe?

[@marks9197]

Cool flannel. The brand please? and thank you.

[@thebrewtank7665]

Croft and Barrow

[@spanthrax]

you mixed before taking a reading after adding water right?

[@thebrewtank7665]

Yes, after adding the water I mixed again to make sure the sugars were well dispensed. I did not do it after the yeast pitch, but it would have dropped it slightly given the og of the juice was around 1.03

[@magacop5180]

2:00 How is your honey pouring that quickly?

[@thebrewtank7665]

It sat in warm water in the sink while I setup the shoot. Some people put them in tubs with a sous vide machine while they sanitize their equipment.

[@user-zm9gc1kt8b]

Fake 🍯