Gruit recipes

user 15122 · Sep 23, 2016

Has anybody got any gruit recipes for me to try. Preferably using ingredients that I can buy from eBay.

I always thought the sedative effect of beer was the alcohol, but after my second pint of mugwort porter I think the hops play a large part.

By the way it's very difficult to write the word gruit without being corrected! I think I may have stumbled upon a conspiracy.:-?

user 15122 · Sep 24, 2016

Ok! don't all type at once :lol:

I take it you are all hooked on hops.

GlentoranMark · Sep 24, 2016

I had to check this thread as I haven't a clue what gruit is!

I think that could be your problem :)

Enlighten us please :)

user 15122 · Sep 24, 2016

Before hops people used herbs to flavour and preserve their beer, herbal beer. Hops can have a sedating effect, whereas herbal beer can have the opposite effect. Herbal beers were banned by the protestants, which to my mind sounds like herbal beers(gruit) are too much fun!
Feel free to correct me on any of this, I've only recently discovered it.

TheRedDarren · Sep 24, 2016

There are a few in 'Radical Brewing' by Randy Mosher.

user 15122 · Sep 24, 2016

I've just ordered "sacred and herbal healing beers". The write up sounds interesting.

user 15122 · Sep 24, 2016

Just added radical brewing to my reading list:)

user 15122 · Sep 25, 2016

Looks like I'm on my own with this branch of home brewing, but for those of you who may be interested.

My mugwort porter, is the first unhopped beer I've ever brewed or drunk.
It is a basic all grain porter recipe brewed in my new grainfather (which makes the brew day much more fun than farting about with tea urns and grain bags!), but the hops are substituted with 70g of dried mugwort (bought of eBay) at the start of the boil.
The result is more mellow than a porter, more like Harveys old ale. The biggest difference is that you don't become drowsy, you become more alert, the effects only last for an hour or two, but very enjoyable.

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