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Herbal Beer Recipes
Ginger
Beer
Ginger Beer used to be more
popular than hopped beer, or even Cider. This recipe is one that you enjoy
tremendously.
2 oz. ginger
3 lbs. malt extract
6 cups white
sugar
1/4 cup rice (to increase the foam on the beer)
5 gal.
water
and, of course, yeast
(try using a champaign yeast
for added crispness)
Crush the ginger, and biol it for an
hour with the rice. Strain it out, add the malt and sugar, mixing it well until
it dissolves. Let it cool, and then put it into your fermenter, along with your
yeast. Wait fir the fermentation to finish, and then transfer to bottles with
1/2 tsp. of additional sugar, and cap. Wait for about 3 weeks, and
enjoy!
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Mugwort:
4 lbs.
brown sugar
24 oz. molasses
4 gal. water
2 oz. dried
mugwort
Boil everything together for half an
hour, strain it into a fermenter, and add yeast. Allow to ferment until done,
siphon into bottles with 1/2 tsp. sugar, and cap 'em up.
Wait for about
2 weeks, and pop a top...see what you think...Mugwort Beer will give you a
pretty good buzz, so drink in the safety of your own
home.
Lemon
Balm:
4 lbs brown sugar
4 gla. water
1/2
lb. dried lemon balm
follow same proceedure as
above.
Lemon Balm is a pretty sweet herb, and you
might consider adding a little bit of hops to the wort to contrast some of the
sweetness. Those who don't generally care for regular beer tend to find this
rather enjoyable because of the sweet lemony flavor.
Wormwood:
1 oz
hops
2 lbs honey
5 lbs light malt extract
5 gal water
1/4 oz
wormwood during the last 15 minutes of the boil
follow same proceedure
as above.
Warning!...
wormwood has some psycotropic qualities to it. that's why you should only use a
small amount. If larger quantities are used, skip the hops because the beer
will come out extremely bitter. It will only take 2 or 3 beers to become
inebriated. Stay home, stay safe.
Yarrow:
5 lbs malted
barley
6 oz of dried yarrow
5 gallons water
Follow same proceedure as above, except boil for a full hour. You
could add some hops, or other herb during the last 15 minutes of the boil to
get it a little more bitter, and offset some of the sweetness.
To get a
stronger flavor of the yarrow, you can use half of the yarrow in the boil, and
then put the other half in a muslin bag, and allow it to remain in the
fermenter until fermentation is complete.(you can use the same method with any
of these recipes)
Any herbs could be used to create your own particular
beer. Just check out the herb description page, and decide for yourself which
herbs you are interested in trying.
Happy Brewing!
Oh yes, there
will be regular additions to this page coming in the near future, so please
check back soon.
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