The following recipes are meant as a starting point for anyone interested in brewing herbal beers. These recipes are not perfect in and of themselves, and I welcome any feedback, questions or suggestions. Most of these are modern interpretations and experimentations on gruit, which means mostly standard brewing equipment and methods are necessary. Gruit ales are relatively uncharted territory, don't hesitate to send in and share your own recipes to be posted here.

Author: Håken Hveem
Details: An inspired beer from Norway,
using Mugwort, Yarrow, Sweet gale and Juniper
berries. Interestingly, Håken suggest the possible
use of a Lambic blend yeast.

Author: Scott Carr & Joe Kaufmann
Details: This makes a very strong and heady
brown ale, with an intense herbal character and a
slightly spruce-like aroma. Needs to age properly,
it comes into its own about 8 months into the process.

Author: gruitale.com
Details: Recipe and a step-by-step brewing of an
unhopped "dubbel" beer. The recipe is used in part II
of the Gruit Ale'ploration project. Herbal bitters and
aromatics tinctures are added before bottleling.

Author: gruitale.com
Details: This beer is modeled on a Scottish Ale.
The taste balances quite well between the maltiness,
alcohol and gruit herbs. Herbs used are the 3 true
gruit herbs: Yarrow, Bog myrtle & Wild rosemary.

Author: Dave Bonta
Details: Dave's recipe calls for no less than
Mugwort, Licorice, Chicory, Chamomile, Lemon grass,
Orange peel, Vanilla extract and Sarsaparilla.
Talk about brewing a revolution!

Author: gruitale.com
Details: A modern recipe spiced mostly with Yarrow
and Mugwort, adding only a small amount of Bog myrtle
and Wild rosemary (at the end of the boil),
providing a unique herbal bitterness.

Author: Christopher Moore
Details: Chris offers a variant of the above Modern
Gruit Ale recipe. He adds Dark Crystal and Cara-Pils
specialty grains to the grain bill and malto-dextrin
for added body and mouthfeel.

Author: John Harrison
From: Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers
Details: This recipe is not a true recreation of a 14th
century Gruit, but rather a small and easy all grain
recipe for 5L / 1Gl batch. With true Gruit herbs.

From: Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers
Details: A small collection of 3 Sage ale recipes
+ A Modern Recipe,
+ A Nineteeth-Century Recipe with Hops,
+ An eighteeth-Century Recipe

From: Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers
Details: A very basic all grain Bog Myrtle (a.k.a.
Sweet gale) recipe. It calls for 110g / 4oz of fresh
Bog myrtle, with half boiled and half added later
to fermenter.