Nettle beer

From Sorgawiki

Ingredients

• 900grams (2lb) young nettle tops
• 3.8lts (1 gallon) of water
• 230 grams (8oz) of sugar, brown or demarrara sugar works best.
• 7.5 grams (0.25oz) of fresh yeast
• small piece of toast
• 7.5 grams (0.25oz) of ground ginger

Method

1. Boil the nettle tops in the water for half an hour (you will need a very large pan for this or preferably a cauldron).
2. Keeping the mixture, strain and add sugar, stirring to dissolve. Also stir in the ginger. Pour mixture into a sterile container
3. Spread the yeast onto the toast and float on the surface of the nettle liquid. Cover and leave for about 3 days at room temperature, do not allow the temperature to fluctuate too much as this will ruin the fermentation process.
4. Strain again and put into clean, strong screw top beer bottles, or sealable wine bottles (I used plastic bottles and it still worked). This can be drunk after about 2 days.