The chamomile taste is up-front but not dominant, and most of the other herbs are present as spicy background notes. There’s a bit of camphor taste from the sweetfern. Probably one of my most well-balanced herbal beers yet, with good head retention and full mouthfeel—a very pleasant, malt-forward, summertime ale.
Add half of sweetfern (loose, not in a bag) and honey at beginning of boil and the rest ten minutes before the end. Add lemonbalm and 1 oz. of chamomile five minutes before end of boil.
Fermentables
61% - Pale 2-Row - US
7
37
1
Mash
9% - Vienna - US
1
36
4
Mash
4% - Caramel/Crystal 90 - US
0.5
35
90
Mash
4% - Caramel/Crystal 60 - US
0.5
36
60
Mash
9% - Red Wheat - US
1
38
2
Mash
4% - Biscuit Malt - BE
0.5
36
23
Mash
9% - Honey - US
1
35
1
Late
Hops
No hops in this recipe
Yeast
Fermentis Safale S-04
75%
Other Stuff
sweetfern (Comptonia peregrina) leaves, dried
3
oz
Boil
lemonbalm leaves, dried
0.5
oz
Boil
chamomile flowers, dried
1
oz
Boil
chamomile flowers, dried
1
oz
Secondary
yarrow tops, dried
1.25
oz
Secondary
juniper berries, crushed
1
tbsp
Secondary
Mash Steps
No mash steps in this recipe
Special Instructions
1.Add half of sweetfern (loose, not in a bag) and honey at beginning of boil and the rest ten minutes before the end. Add lemonbalm and 1 oz. of chamomile five minutes before end of boil.
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