I look forward to this yearly treat nettle beer is just delicious and has its own wonderful scent and flavour flowery nectar and very easy to drink. If you read my Nettle tea post then this will not taste like the tea, far from it.
Ingredients
12 litres of water
1kg young nettles and well worth the arduous pick
juice of 1 lemon and 1 orange
1.5kg sugar
55g cream of tartar
brewing yeast
(recipe source river cottage)
Bring the water up to boil in a very large pot and put in the nettle mix well and leave to infuse for 1 hour add the sugar and stir until dissolved there should be enough heat left to melt the sugar. Leave to stand until has cooled down to blood temperature.
Strain into a brewers bucket and add the lemon, orange, and cream of tartar leave the mixture until it is tepid and stir in the yeast started in a little warm sugar water to help feed the yeast. cover your brewers bucket and leave to stand for 2-3 days in a warm place. do not leave for any longer as this beer has no preservatives in it and will go mouldy if left any longer.
Strain off any scum and leaves, sterilise bottles and caps and syphon from the bucket into bottles and seal. Leave for 2 more days and up to 1 month. Yummy !
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