INGREDIENTS & METHOD
Ingredients
- 4 gallons water
- 5 pounds malted barley
- 4 ounces fresh leaves and berries of Myrical gale
- Yeast
Method
- Malt the barley at 150 degrees F for 90 minutes. Sparge (run the test of the heated water through the malt) and boil all together with 2 ounces of the Myrica gale.
- Stain and cool to 70 degrees F, pour into fermenter and add yeast. Hang the remaining 2 ounces of Myrica in a muslin bag in the fermentater. Ferment until complete, siphon into bottles, prime, and cap.
- Ready to drink in 10 days to two weeks.
SOURCE
Stephen Harrod Buhner, "Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers: The Secrets of Ancient Fermentation", (Boulder, Sirus Books, 1998)