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Nettle and Ginger Brew (with piccies)

 
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Mogwyth



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Location: Pwllheli North Wales
PostPosted: Mon Jun 08, 09 9:27 pm    Post subject: Nettle and Ginger Brew (with piccies) Reply with quote
    

Something a bit simple but worthwhile.

3lb of Nettle tops (takes a bit of collecting, useful if you have a wife and daughter with thick gloves )

4" piece of fresh ginger
Juice of 1 orange and lemon
500gms Honey
500 light spray malt
Unrefined demera sugar
10 litres cheapo asda water.

You need a big pot to boil the nettle tops down along with 3 litres of the water.



30 minutes later and they are done.



Squeezing every last drop of the wort out to the nettles (now wrapped in muslin)



All that's left of the nettles....................



......except for this steaming bucket of goodness.



Topped up to 10 litres, added all the honey, malt and enough sugar to bring it up to 1.045 OG, the juice and the grated ginger. Once it cooled down enough I added half a packet of SAFALE S04.



24hrs on, bubbling away nicely and quite an interesting aroma.


 
gil
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 08, 09 9:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Sounds great ! Two of my favourite flavours.
Is boiling the nettles essential ?

 
Mogwyth



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 08, 09 10:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

gil wrote:
Sounds great ! Two of my favourite flavours.
Is boiling the nettles essential ?


I suppose you could steep them in the brew in a muslin bag, but you will get more flavour out by boiling and also given the amount of wildlife on them I would recommend it. oh and it detroys the formic acid . If you don't have a big pan you could always do it in small batches.

I pulled most of the tips off and made soup too, very nice it was too.

Bill

Last edited by Mogwyth on Tue Jun 09, 09 10:45 pm; edited 1 time in total

 
catbaffler



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 09 10:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I've been looking at various recipes for nettle beer - this looks very interesting though
Mogwyth wrote:
gil wrote:
Sounds great ! Two of my favourite flavours.
Is boiling the nettles essential ?


I suppose you could steep them in the brew in a muslim bag....


...would a pagan one do?

 
Mogwyth



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Location: Pwllheli North Wales
PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 09 10:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

There's a witty retort there somewhere but can't think of it this time of night. Perhaps a muslin bag would be better.

I had a sneak taste tonight, definitely got merit.

 
Mogwyth



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Location: Pwllheli North Wales
PostPosted: Sun Jun 14, 09 9:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It fermented out to 1004, ended up a bit drier/less sweet than I intended, but first impressions it has the makings of a nice summer sup . Bottled 21 pints with extra sugar and I will leave to condition only a few days before putting out in the shed to mature for a few weeks.

Cheers

BIll

 
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