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Pine needles as an adjunct to beer for sale.

Started by Mc Doc, February 29, 2016, 10:22:51 PM

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Mc Doc

February 29, 2016, 10:22:51 PM Last Edit: March 01, 2016, 02:26:23 PM by Eoin
Pine needles for beer.
All pine needles from Siberia. Collected after 1 month after ripening.

Beer brewed similarly as the needles of spruce.

Pack 150 gr. = 10 euro.

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BEER - 1

Spruce Juice Pale Ale (Our own family recipe, which has won ribbons!):

(5 Gallons – Mash Extract)

1.5 lb Light Dry Malt Extract

2.75 lb Pale Malt Liquid Extract

2 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row)

1 lb Munich Malt – 10L (Great Western)

½ lb Carapils

¼ lb Caramel / Crystal Malt – 60L

1 oz New Zealand Hallertauer (8.5% - 60 minutes)

.5 oz Cascade (8.6% - 20 minutes)

4 to 8 oz Spruce Tips (15 minutes - less for subtle flavor, more for lots of flavor)

1 tsp Irish Moss (15 minutes)

1 oz New Zealand Hallertauer (8.5% - 5 minutes)

Ale Yeast

(priming sugar for bottling)

Mash crushed grains at 150 degrees for one hour. Remove grains and bring to a boil. Cut heat and add extracts. Bring back to a boil and start hop additions. Cool wort in a fermenter and pitch yeast. Rack to secondary after primary fermentation has slowed (usually 3-5 days). Condition in secondary for two weeks before bottling or kegging.

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Beer 2

Kumdis Island Spruce Beer:

(5 Gallons - Taken with permission from Charlie Papazian's book The Complete Joy of Home Brewing, where you can find even more spruce recipes and TONS of other great brewing info. His book is highly recommended...)

6.6 lbs Briess CBW traditional dark malt extract syrup

4 oz Spruce Tips

2 oz Vanguard or Hallertauer hops (Boiling – 10 HBU)

American Ale Type Yeast

¾ c. corn sugar or 1 ¼ c. Dry malt extract (for bottling)

OG – 1.046 – 1.050

FG – 1.010 – 1.014

Bitterness – 32 IBU; Color 20 SRM

Add the malt extracts,  spruce tips and boiling hops to 1.5 gallons of water and boil for 60 minutes. Strain, sparge and transfer immediately to 2 gallons of cold water in the fermenter. Top off with additional water to make five gallons. Add the yeast when cool and ferment to completion. Bottle when fermentation is complete.

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++ Also, you can find more recipe in Internet.

++ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spruce_beer

fishjam45 (Colin)

Are you selling these needles or sharing a recipe?
Garden County Brewers

https://gcbrewers.wordpress.com/

Mc Doc

Quote from: fishjam45 on March 01, 2016, 08:23:45 AM
Are you selling these needles or sharing a recipe?
I sale Pine needles for beer.

The recipe were as small example.

Mc Doc

Quote from: CH on March 01, 2016, 08:41:18 AM
Wicklow is full of em FJ

You can grow barley. Make malting. Grinding and make a beer.
Also, if you have time, you can move to Wicklow in specific time, pick up needles and make beer as well.
Not everyone can do it, so many people buy it.

LordEoin

Information would probably sell more than sarcasm.

What kind of pine trees are they from?
How old are they?
How much are they?
How many grams per package?

Mc Doc

Quote from: LordEoin on March 01, 2016, 11:36:02 AM
Information would probably sell more than sarcasm.

What kind of pine trees are they from?
How old are they?
How much are they?
How many grams per package?
Good questions. Thanks Lord Eoin.

1 - It is a pine tree from Russian Siberia - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus_sibirica
2 - 2015
3 - 900 gr.
4 - 150 gr.
5 - price 10 euro per pack.