Belgian Gale Ale
Sweet gale or bog myrtle is a classic northern European gruit ingredient.
experimental beers with a botanical twist
Herbs and spices
Fraoch Porter
Fraoch, or heather ale, is a legendary unhopped beer from Scotland, said to date back to Pictish times.
Gruit Ale with Kveik
One of the herbal beers I typically make, but using the yeast (kveik) from Norwegian farmhouse beer.
Appalachian True Root Beer
A hopped alcoholic root beer with mostly wild-harvested roots and herbs and a bock-ish grain bill.
The terroir of London homebrewing
A summer in London gave unparalleled opportunities to exploit terroir through local or regional malts, hops, herbs, fruit, and water.
Ginger-Angelica Gruit Porter
Fennel, licorice, lemon balm, coriander… YUM. A delicious backdrop to a delicious beer.
Elderflower Wheat Beer
A Belgian-style wheat beer with elderflowers from the back garden tree in London.
Sweetfern Red Ale
This experiment confirms that Comptonia peregrina is the best all-around native North American “hop substitute” I’ve ever used.
Sweetfern Chamomile Gruit Ale
My first new experiment worth writing up since last year’s Pennsylvania Native Plant Gruit Beer, where I first tried brewing with sweetfern (Comptonia peregrina) in a big way. This time I combined it with some other reliable brewing herbs for a trans-Atlantic gruit.
Wild Ginger and Lemon Verbena Wheat Beer
Might lemon verbena have anti-microbial properties? My one experiment with it was a success.
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