Sweetfern Chamomile Gruit Ale Recipe

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Sweetfern Chamomile Gruit Ale

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All Grain
5.5 Gallon(s)
7 Gallon(s)
60 min
75%
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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Recipe Facts

Sweetfern Chamomile Gruit Ale
  • 5.50 Gallons Liters Batch Size
  • 7.00 Gallons Liters Boil Size
  • 60  min Boil Time
  • 1.059 OG
  • 1.015 FG
  • 0.0 IBU (tinseth) Bitterness
  • 0.00 BG:GU
  • 11.1° SRM Color
  • 75% Efficiency
  • 5.7% ABV Alcohol
  • 199 per 12oz Calories
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