Brewing with red raspberries: two approaches
Red raspberry imperial mugwort stout and raspberry-black currant wheat beer.
experimental beers with a botanical twist
Red raspberry imperial mugwort stout and raspberry-black currant wheat beer.
This was one of my two most successful experiments of the winter brewing season, and the first I’ve used hops in fifteen years. I wanted to make it basically because the portmanteaus amused me, but as it happened, mugwort and Fuggles hops go together in more ways than just linguistically.
Mugwort and Indian sarsaparilla are an excellent combination; that’s why I brew with them so often.
My tasting notes say only “very tasty and strong,” but the fact that I still remember how good it was five years later ought to tell you something.