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Brewing Beer
Tue, Jun 10 2008

Ground ivy is now growing abundantly where I live. This plant was used to brew beer and as a cure-all. I don't know if it adds any flavoring to the beer -- I must pay more attention to what beer brewed with ground ivy tastes like. But it's good for whatever ails you so now is a good time to keep your eyes on the ground and bring home a handful of ground ivy for your beer or teapot whenever you go out for a walk.

Posted Charlotte O'Neil at 3:14 PM BST
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Wed, Jun 11 2008 - 8:59 PM BST

Name: "saccharo "
Home Page: http://www.backwoodsbrewing.blogspot.com

I came across your site a few days ago, and find it very refreshing. I've just recently gotten into the whole homebrewing thing. I was sick of all the sci-tech homebrew sites. It looks like your mentality is very similar to mine. I've been making a bunch of gallon and half gallon experimental brews. My first beer was from oatmeal and coffee much like yours. Mine didn't turn out that great though. I started another one last night in which I used corn and toasted the oatmeal first (per an idea I saw on your page) I just started posting my experiments on my site, if you're interested in checking them out. http://www.backwoodsbrewing.blogspot.com

Thanks for the inspiration and keep 'em coming!

Tue, Nov 11 2008 - 7:55 AM GMT

Name: "Charlotte"
Home Page: http://yankeeharp.googlepages.com

Hi.

Thanks. I'm glad you found stuff on the site you could use. I'm sorry I didn't answer sooner. I thought I was supposed to be informed when someone posted a comment here but I didn't get a notification, I don't know why.

But yes, I know what you mean about the high tech brewing. Many times I would study how to brew and somehow end up finding out only that I couldn't do it, didn't have the equipment or ability or materials, etc. Finally, one day I decided I was just going to go ahead and brew something -- anything -- rather than be stopped by trying to learn how and learning only that I couldn't.

And I made many things that turned out terrible at first. But eventually I learned. Now I am amazed at how easy it is -- mix sugar and water and add yeast and you get beer. Why has modern civilization made it so complicated?

I looked over your blog. Very interesting. I like the idea about putting your grains in a cotton sock. I might try that someday. :-) I have more pages on brewing on websites. Here's one you might find interesting -- it's how to harvest wild yeast from the air (for free). If you like gathering plants in the backwoods, you might like getting your yeast there, too:
http://windintheroses.googlepages.com/wildyeast

Some other sites I have are:
http://windintheroses.googlepages.com/ale
http://yankeeharp.googlepages.com/7dayale.html and
http://yankeeharp.googlepages.com/breadbeer.html
http://yankeeharp.googlepages.com/rawbeer.html

The raw beer one is the one might try with the cotton sock trick. It sounds like fun and might even make it easier.

Best wishes,
Charlotte

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