Instead of hops

[TC2642]

I'm planning on adding a few hundred grams of fresh elderflowers to a brew for my next beer club (brewing group) meeting, if it smells half as good as the "champagne" that's bubbling beside me then it should be a refreshing cracker.

I've done this with my current brew, 150gms in the last 15mins. Had good results too, should be bottling in a week or so.

[onelegout]

I see you were interested in Hugh Fearnley whittingstall's recipe for ale bittered with Spruce, and others are talking about Heather ale. You should check out Hugh's pre-river cottage series, 'A Cook on The Wild Side'. In it he travels to the scottish highlands and picks heather with a load of brewery workers before making his own 5 gallon batch - it has a recipe in I could probably dig it out if you're interested? I remember it being pretty primative though!
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[floydmeddler]

Cheers for the heads up... found it here for anyone who wants to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCYgTaPWKSE

Found this one too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPBBQ8s_ ... re=related

Cheers

[mysterio]

I don't really care for Fraoch at all, the same brewery do a spruce beer which is actually pretty nice, though. They also do an IPA for Tesco, another good beer.