Tropical Stout Recipe - Appalachian Gruit Stout

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Appalachian Gruit Stout

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All Grain
5 Gallon(s)
6.5 Gallon(s)
60 min
75%
Using herbs from the back forty (sweetfern and mugwort) and locally grown base malt from Appalachian Malting in Portage, PA. No hops are needed for sanitation or bittering. Sweetfern imparts a spruce-lish, camphor type of flavor, and also seems to have strong anti-microbial properties (as does mugwort).

Fermentables

62% - Pale 2-Row - US
8
37
1
Mash
4% - Victory Malt - US
0.5
34
28
Mash
4% - Vienna - US
0.5
36
4
Mash
4% - Caramel/Crystal 60 - US
0.5
36
60
Mash
4% - Chocolate Malt - US
0.5
34
350
Mash
2% - De-Bittered Black - BE
0.25
34
500
Mash
2% - Roasted Barley - UK
0.25
29
550
Mash
2% - Red Wheat - US
0.25
38
2
Mash
17% - Brown Sugar - US
2.2
46
10
Late

Hops

No hops in this recipe

Yeast

Fermentis Safale S-04
75%

Other Stuff

mugwort leaves and tops, fall-harvested, dried
2
oz
Primary
sweetfern (Comptonia peregrina) leaves and twigs, fall-harvested, dried
2
oz
Primary
sweet orange peel, dried
1
oz
Primary
chamomile flowers, dried
1
oz
Primary

Mash Steps

Saccharification Rest
Infusion
151
60 min

Special Instructions

1.
All herbs in mesh bag at 5 min before flame-out to sanitize, then add to fermenter.
2.
Rack off of herbs into secondary after five days.

Tasting Notes (1)

Woodrat

Tasted on 11/26/2018 by Woodrat

Notes:

Delicious, considering the relatively few herbs in this gruit blend, although the orange peel and chamomile were a bit overwhelmed. If I make this again, I might save them for the secondary. Nevertheless, a good showcase for sweetfern, backed up by the solid, hop-like character of mugwort. It proves to me that you don't have to only harvest sweetfern at its peak in July to make good beer with it.

Recipe Facts

Appalachian Gruit Stout
Tropical Stout
  • 5.00 Gallons Liters Batch Size
  • 6.50 Gallons Liters Boil Size
  • 60  min Boil Time
  • 1.079 OG
  • 1.020 FG
  • 0.0 IBU (tinseth) Bitterness
  • 0.00 BG:GU
  • 36.4° SRM Color
  • 75% Efficiency
  • 7.6% ABV Alcohol
  • 272 per 12oz Calories
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