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Produce => Drink .... => Topic started by: GlentoranMark on May 30, 2009, 16:53:59
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Bit of an experiment this one. Basically I've taken the River Cottage recipe and added a few extra fruit ingredients that need used up in the house.
Ingredients:
3 gallons water
1 carrier-bagful of young nettle tops
juice of 3 lemons and rind of lemons + pulp
2 plums, chopped
2 apples, chopped
100g pulped grapes
1.5kg / 3lb sugar
55g / 2oz cream of tartar
3 teaspoons yeast
I sterilised everything then boiled my nettle tops in 4l water, strained into my brewing vessel then re boiled another 4l water with the pulp that was strained previous. I topped up to 3 gallons then I put in all the other ingredients.
Specific gravity was 1.042.
I tasted it, very sweet with the grapes of all fruit the strongest. I'll check again tomorrow.
This is a quick brew beer, it will be bottled after around 3/4 days and drinkable after a week.
I'll see how it develops.
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Cracked open my first bottle, not much fizz and pinkish in colour. Very fruity but also yeasty, I'll leave this brew for 2 months and see what it tastes like. Its strength is 4.2%