480ml salt
240ml brown sugar
3 carrots, 3 onions, 3 stalks of celery, roughly chopped
1 Lemon & 1 Clementine, quartered
5 bay leaves
A bunch of fresh thyme
A stick of cinnamon and a couple of star anise
All this is boiled up with 2 L of water then poured into an old fermenting bin
Topped off with 6 more L of cold water and 5 cans of Newcastle Brown Ale.
I think Newcastle brown ale is a nice easy drinking brown ale, clean as a whistle and not bad at all, if not the most inspiring of ales. It is cheap too and you don't want to spend too much on a brine. I had a couple of cans of it last night and was surprised at how clean it was, compared to a selection of bottled ales I got which were, without exception, oxidised to varying degrees.
I've never brined anything before so hopefully I haven't ruined a perfectly good Turkey, i'm not telling anyone it's brined in beer until after they've eaten it
