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These are wooden carvings used to store dried kveik. Their use is simple: drag the kveik ring/kveikstokk through the krausen of a fermenting beer, and then hang the ring/kveikstokk to dry. On the next batch, the ring/kveikstokk is dunked into wort to reactivate the yeast <ref>[https://www.facebook.com/groups/MilkTheFunk/permalink/1505143962847146/?comment_id=1505145579513651&reply_comment_id=1505163232845219&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R%22%7D Lars Marius garshol. Milk The Funk Facebook group post about using a kveik ring. 2017.]</ref>. Note that not all yeast reacts well to drying. Kveik has this exceptional ability. For example, ''Brettanomyces'' is known to not be tolerant of drying/desiccation <ref>[https://www.facebook.com/groups/MilkTheFunk/permalink/2237938229567712/?comment_id=2237959286232273&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R%22%7D Justin Amaral. Milk The Funk Facebook group post on kveikstokk and drying ''Brettanomyces''. 08/16/2018.]</ref>.
Kveik rings for sale:
* [https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2013305902258162&id=1521916121397145 Tim Oelke of Suds n' Sawdust offers kveik rings in the US for sale.]
* https://www.facebook.com/groups/MilkTheFunk/permalink/2239698849391650/?comment_id=2239947889366746&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R%22%7D William Holden offers kveik rings for sale in EU.]
See also:
* [http://mutedog.beer/blog/kveikstokk-beer/ Matt Spaanem's blog post on using a smaller kveikstokk for a wild caught yeast culture.]
* [https://homebrewingcondor.blogspot.com/2018/08/conservare-il-kveik-su-legno-kveikstokk.html Antonio Golia's write up on making and using a kveikstokk (in Italian; use an online translator).]
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