Hellhound

[LordofMisrule]

I originally had two ideas in mind, an alcoholic Root Beer, and a more 'traditional' herbal beer/gruit (or rather, one using traditional ingredients). I hit a few stumbling blocks on the route to these recipes, most notably the difficulty of obtaining sarsaparilla root in anything other than half-kilo sacks and Bog Myrtle in any form. The malt base is inspired by a porter base, with what should be lots of toasty notes (here's hoping)

Anyway: the recipe is below

Malts

3kg Irish Pale Ale Malt
500g Crystal Malt
250g Chocolate Malt
250g Roast Barley
250g Melanoidin Malt

Hops

14g Fuggles (60 Minute Boil)

Spices

{28g Horehound
15g Meadowsweet
5 Allspice Berries
4" piece of licorice root
5g Cinnamon
7g Fennelseed } - 60 Minute Boil

{15g Woodruff
10g Meadowsweet
1 Vanilla Pod
14g Ginger
7g Spearmint} - 15 Minute Boil

 

[LordofMisrule]

For anyone whose interested, there was way too much Horehound in this, It tasted sour, tannic and awful, further, the meadowsweet was leaves, rather than flowers, so it had a fainttaste of antiseptic!