🍇 LAB SHEET: VIKING BERRY BLAST — MELOMEL CYSER HYBRID — 11.2% ABV

The full Rainford's Brew Lab Lab Sheet for our Viking Berry Blast — a rich, full-bodied, force-carbonated fruit mead that Pete calls the best thing to have blessed his taste buds in months. A kilo of frozen berries, half a jar of honey, some apple juice, and the fastest yeast on the planet. That's genuinely it. At 11.2% ABV this drinks like a premium sparkling red wine — and it's done in 48 hours.

Inside your Lab Sheet:

✅ Full ingredient list with exact quantities and costs calculated from the Rainford Price List

✅ Step-by-step method — from thawing your fruit to force carbonation

✅ The complete Rainford Scaling Table — scale from a 1L trial batch all the way up to a 25L big batch, with costs calculated at every volume

✅ The overflow warning — Pete's 2L fermenter ended up all over the brew lab walls overnight. The Lab Sheet tells you exactly which vessel to use so it doesn't happen to you

✅ Full Over 10% Safety Override — vessel warnings, Kveik temperature guidance, Pinter 3 advisory, and big batch notes at every scale

✅ Lab Notes — why Kveik yeast is non-negotiable here, the happy accident that made this brew exceptional, the vegetarian-friendly bentonite clearing method, and how to thin it out for more volume

✅ Target ABV, OG/FG readings, fermentation temps, conditioning timeline, and aging potential

The Vikings knew what they were doing. Now so do you. Shed-tested, wall-splattered, and wife-approved. Cheers! 🍺