We all like a wee tipple now and again. Alcohol is a feature of the Scottish landscape and culture as much as Haggis and Kilts. Brewing has a big history in Scotland.
Here you’ll find a collection of the different brewing recipes I have come across that might make for good beers, ciders,meads and other things. Where appropriate, I have referenced the source so you can go and look out more and to give full credit where possible.
The below recipe for Mugwort and Lemon Beer has been taken from Grow Forage Cook Ferment. I have just changed it a little bit and put it here for prosperity. This recipe is from The New Wildcrafted Cuisine by Pascal Baudar ad it’s well worth a look. So, let’s begin … The first step with any home brewing recipe is to make sure that everything is properly sanitised. There are many sanitisers to choose from, but to save a bit of money you can use a Milton tablet for sterilising baby bottle tops etc. (honestly it’s A LOT cheaper) or you can use …
The fear creeping up on you when your still in bed… the taste of a small animal that has crawled into your mouth used it as a toilet and the subsequently died there without any last rites or a word from their relatives. Open one eye, light cracks from between the curtains instantly hurt… headache pounding, stomach churning and perhaps even a little room spin to go with it all? Any feelings of regret are creeping over your imagination, did I really do that? did I really drink that much? did I really tell them THAT story ?… then the …
Ah the majestic and humble Rowan Tree. I have to say this is one of my favourite trees, its flowers in May, and the way its leaves turn fantastic colours of red in autumn. Rowan is best known for its use in Rowan Tree and Red Thread Charms or the berries strung up as decoration and used for protection, but also for its very direct Celtic connotations to the Ogham and other deeper folklore uses. It’s an enticing tree with much mythology behind it and its Berry with a little five-pointed star at its end leads us to ponder other questions …
