How to Make Nettle Beer Recipe | Homestead Honey (2024)

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Can you make beer with honey? ›

Often the types used with mead are best, depending on the style of beer you are brewing and desired character. The percentage of honey to use should be between approximately 2-10%. Adding too much honey will not only increase the needed fermentation time, but also give the beer a decidedly mead-like character.

- 500ml. A member of our Standard beer range, find out more on our Nettle IPA page. A member of our Standard beer range, find out more on our Nettle IPA page.

Aside from making a somewhat pleasant drink, stinging nettles (Urtica dioica) are a great source of vitamin C and apparently help alleviate rheumatic pain. They can also be used to make soup and are an important plant for a variety of wildlife. It's a Belgian dream - a beer with a lot of health benefits.

Mead (/miːd/), also called hydromel (particularly when low in alcohol content), is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey mixed with water, and sometimes with added ingredients such as fruits, spices, grains, or hops.

A good place to start experimenting is with one to two pounds of honey per 5-gallon batch (~0.5–1 kg/19 L) of mid-gravity beer. One pound (0.45 kg) will tend to impart a fairly subtle flavor, while two pounds (0.91 kg) will yield a much more pronounced and noticeable contribution.

Nettles are best eaten when the leaves are young and tender, so pick the fresh young tips of the plants in early to mid spring when they're at their seasonal best. You can also pick them later in the season when they're growing well, but before they flower.

Beer Snake Venom

Snake Venom is the winner of the title of the strongest beer in the world. The beer comes with a warning because the alcohol level is 67.5%. Yes, you read that right. The beer was born in Aberdeenshire in Scotland.

When taken by mouth: Stinging nettle is possibly safe when used for up to 1 year. It might cause diarrhea, constipation, and upset stomach in some people. When applied to the skin: Stinging nettle is possibly safe.

Honey will provide carbonation after bottling, and also impart a strong honey flavor. If using honey in this manner, it's recommended to boil honey in a water solution, pour the solution into the bottom of the bottling bucket and rack beer on top.

Can you use honey instead of sugar to make alcohol? ›

When using honey in wine making before the fermentation, you want to use it in-place-of or instead-of the sugar called for in the wine recipe you are using. As a general rule-of-thumb you can replace 1 pound of sugar with 1.2 to 1.3 pounds of honey. You can also use a wine hydrometer to determine how much honey to add.

Carbonating your beer with honey can produce very unique homebrew, with a strong initial honey aroma and flavor. To carbonate a 5 gallon batch of beer with honey, you can typically replace 5 oz of priming sugar and use 1 cup of honey.

Honey does contribute fermentable sugars but it also contributes a flavor and aroma of its own and adds value to beers by increasing their consumer appeal. Honey beer is often lighter and “crisper” than all-malt beer, but it does not lack character.