Funny my family doctor says no beer but the witch doctor says its good for me. Guess who I listen to?
This is kind of a dead post but.......
I did a worm wood beer, basically your standard pale with 3/4 oz of worm wood.
When it was fresh it was a really weird bitter, won a silver in a pretty tough competition, but not something you would drink a pint of.
I just cracked a bottle open tonight 3 years later and it's a pretty good beer. It's a pale and the beer didn't age well but the bitterness on the side of the tongue and that weird back side bitterness is gone. It's actually pretty good for a pale that's been sitting for 3 years.
I think I'm going to try it on something that will age a little better that I want some bitterness to after a few years.
It does mellow out but it takes a lot of time.
As far as a flavoring agent goes, wormwood tastes like....hmm, how can I say this...POISON:cross:.
3-10% of a beer batch is alcohol. If I drank 5 gallons in a night it wouldn't be the thujone that got me. Nutmeg in high enough doses can produce actual hallucinations - apparently they're pretty scary. A lot of spices can do damage if you overuse them. Things like renal failure and so on.
I'm bottling a very batch tonight (unspiced leftover from the bigger batch) we'll see how it goes. I expect an hour in heavy traffic with the windows down to be more dangerous.
Not too scientific, I used about like a tea bag in a pint of cold water. It was way too much. I would use just a pinch in the same pint now.
How do you like the sweet gale? I have thought about it, but I would have to order online and for now just haven't done it since my herbal tea works nicely
Sorry to hear of your bad experience. I tried a wormwood sour brewed by a friend of mine and it was delicious. I don't know the quantities he used, which is kinda why I'm on this page, to find out. I'll make sure not to use yours tho. ThanksSmash you head with a brick and walk away. Wormwood is bad. It tastes bad. It is like pure tannis. Unless you like the sides and back of you tongue covered in bitter as #$^*#@$(&# stuff along with with your throat being squeezed really hard, in that case give it a go. I used less than 1/8oz in a 6 gallon batch, in just under 2 years it is barley drinkable.
FWIW there is NO, I repeat NO, "extra effects" either. That was a medieval sales pitch that was used to sell booze that was really high ABV and tasted worse than a hot, flat, festering in the sun, BMC product.
You have been warned...
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