Sprout Beer
I remember seeing someone mention homemade sproutbeer (I think) I dont know if it was here or on Sproutlore however.
If it was true and not a figment of my imagination could the inventor please pass me the recipe 
On a side note does anyone else on here make a drop of the homebrew? I personally make wine in various guises but have never had much luck with beer surely me and my imaginary/real counterpart cant be the only ones.
Not personally but I have friend who makes a wide array of ales, stouts and meads on quite a regular basis, and my brother makes wine from nettles, elderberries or whatever other plants he gets his mits on.
I regularly make my own ale which goes onto my bar and is dipensed using a proper hand pump.... I do use kits, usually woodfordes, and it generally is as good as that on tap in the pub - though I have had a couple of failures, probably down to poor sterilisation of equipment.
Considering buying a mashing kit and trying from scratch later this summer, I'll share the results here if I ever get it off the ground
@bioniciguana I have also made wine from allsorts of things, a personal favouritehas to be strawberry jam
My brother and I used to do home brews using grain malt and dried hops. The method we used involved a tea urn to do the mash. It worked pretty well for the most part and we made some pretty good ales.
As for sprout ale, I doubt that would work out terribly well. Sprouts are mostlikely just full of starch which is of course non-fermentable unless you convert it to sugar using some kind of enzyme. So in theory it may be possible. I would not volunteer to try the first batch however.
I've tried Ales with limited success.
I keep meaning to try ciders & wines sometime too...
I've tried Ales with limited success.I keep meaning to try ciders & wines sometime too...
I have to say wines are real easy, the only problem I had was when I went lift a demijohn of elderflower to find the pressure had cause the bottom to break off, that was one hell of a mess
I make a variety of beers and ales. Often use kits but had an abundance of nettles at the allotment this year so have put them to a better purpose than stinging me! I haven't tried it yet as it's only been maturing for a couple of weeks and the sediment isn't casting so well in this hot weather (it's hard to find a cool spot to store it!)
To make sprout beer you could probably just adapt a nettle recipe.
So something like 750g of sprouts, 1lb of spray malt, 3 tablespoons of black treacle, 6oz brown sugar and a sachet of good quality beer yeast.
Bring the sprouts to a boil in about 2 pints of water, simmer for 20 mins. Strain off liquid and cool. (do whatever you wish with the discarded sprouts!). Pour cool sprout liquid into a fermentation bin, add spray malt and stir until dissolved. Add 2 pints of just boiled water, treacle and brown sugar then mix. Top up to 10 pint mark with cold water. Sprinkle yeast on top ...leave for about 15mins then stir yeast in. Move to a warm place for about 5 -6 days until fermentation stops (bubbles stop rising). If a scum develops on top remove this on day 2 and day 4. Move to a cooler place for a further 2 days to begin clearing then bottle into 8 sterile 1 pint beer bottles and add tops. Leave until clear. The beer will contain an amount of sediment, so will need to be decanted before drinking. Enjoy...although it might just taste like alcoholic sprout water!
That recipe sounds wrong, makes my stomach churn just thinking about sprouts infecting beer
lol...not sure I'd try it either!
lol...not sure I'd try it either!
