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Hi Tsuyako, Long time since you post, but did you try? I have tried myself with not very good results (see my thread Massive hangove with Nettle beer), so I'd be interested to see if you were succesfull.

Thanks! I was beginnignto feel like a right weirdo for brewing something out of Nettles, glad to get confirmation that, if not commonplace, it was at least known somewhere. Thanks for the suggestion of too much citric acid, that could well be as the original recipe did call for cream of...

The nettle leaves are boiled for 15min to infuse the water and also I was told to get rid of the toxic chemicals. I've had nettle soup with no ill effects which is why I am so confused. The extra strength medicinal effect could make sense I guess though I still don't get is, if this is the...

Did have half a pint of weak lager one of the nights, you think the effect multiplied? Not sure how to tell if I'm allergic, but if you have tried similar beer with out any problems I am tempted to find a human guinea pig and ask him to try the beer and see what happens...

Hi I'm new to homebrewing with out a kit and decided to try a nettle beer recipe I saw in a self sufficiency book. Was more of self-sufficiency that real proper homebrewing (it used bread yeast...) but decided to give it a try. After bottling and waiting for a week for the beer to mature I...