Nettle Beer

Name: Nettle Beer
Ingredients: 4 oz. sarsaparilla; 2 oz. hops; 1 oz. creamed yeast; 1½ lb. caster sugar; 2 gallons young nettles; 1 oz. root ginger; 2 gallons water; 4 lb. malt

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Farmhouse Kitchen

By Audrey Ellis

Published 1971

About

Ingredients

2 gallons young nettles
1 oz. root ginger
2 gallons

Household
Drinks
Vegetarian

Method

Wash nettles well and bruise ginger. Put into a pan with water, malt, hops and sarsaparilla. Boil for 15 minutes and strain over sugar. Stir until sugar dissolves, then add yeast. Leave to ferment. Make sure fermentation is finished before pouring into bottles, cork and tie down with string. This beer is suitable for drinking in about a week.