Non-alcoholic spruce beer recipe
Thu, 04/02/2009 - 06:02
Does anyone have a recipe for some good non-alcoholic spruce beer? A friend of mine is looking for one!
Help is muchly appreciated!
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Does anyone have a recipe for some good non-alcoholic spruce beer? A friend of mine is looking for one!
Help is muchly appreciated!
Instructions for Making Spruce Beer
Items needed for Spruce Beer:
1 clean and dry, 2 litre soda bottle with a screw cap
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Ingredients
1 cup of sugar (more if you desire a sweeter beer)
¼ teaspoon of powdered baker's yeast or dry champagne yeast - either will do so long as it is in powder form and is active (not past expiration date)
1 tablespoon of spruce beer extract (40 grams of outer twigs of spruce fir & 1 tablespoon of hops boiled in 500ml water until very sticky)
Any two litre soda bottle will do so long as it has been thoroughly cleaned and is completely dry inside. Baker's yeast can be purchased at any grocery store (usually found in the baking aisle). Champagne yeast can be found in wine making and home brew stores as well as on line.
Using the funnel, pour the sugar into the bottle and then pour in the yeast.
Remove funnel and shake bottle to mix sugar and yeast.
Replace funnel and pour in beer extract.
Leaving funnel in place, fill bottle half full with water from tap. Use this opportunity to rinse spruce beer extract from tablespoon and funnel into the mixture in the bottle.
Remove funnel and swirl contents in bottle until dissolved.
Fill bottle to the neck with water and screw cover on tightly.
Let bottle sit at room temperature for about four days or until bottle feels hard like an unopened bottle of soda in the grocery store.
Store in a cool place where the temperature is below sixty-five degrees Fahrenheit (18 degrees Celsius).
Before opening, place in refrigerator and chill thoroughly. Loosen cap slowly when opening to allow gas to escape and avoid liquid fizzing over.
Or try this blog for a more complex method
http://fourpoundsflour.blogspot.com/2009/01/try-this-at-home-spruce-beer...
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Thanks, Audax! Seems you've always got the answer to any baking/cooking/anything question on this forum!
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One more question... would the yeast in the recipe lead to fermentation/alcohol?
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One more question... would the yeast in the recipe lead to fermentation/alcohol?
It has the same alcohol levels as home-made root-beer (a very very small amount). In fact you can use any root-beer recipe for spruce beer just substitute spruce-flavourings for the root-beer essence.
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Oh, boo. That won't work. I guess it's not possible to get a recipe that's completely alcohol free? Even a little bit doesn't work.
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Oh, boo. That won't work. I guess it's not possible to get a recipe that's completely alcohol free? Even a little bit doesn't work.
A lot of foods are the result of fermentation (yeast action) which makes alcohol and CO2.
The above recipe using soda bottles will be roughly 0.35% alcohol. The gas build up in the bottle kills the yeast and this limits the alcohol to a small amount.
If you use 1/4 oz by weight of corn sugar (dextrose) instead of the 1 cup of sugar in the above recipe you will have about 0.09% alcohol and it still will be fizzy, you will need to add some sugar later in the beer after it is opened. Also add 0.5 ounces of maltodextrin to 2 liters (8 ounces per 4 gallons) in order to improve body and texture of the finished root beer. Maltodextrin does not ferment and does not replace normal sugar levels.
Remember even baked bread has 0.005% alcohol from the yeast action most of the rest is driven off when baked. Over-ripe fruit is 0.03% alcohol. In reality it is impossible to avoid alcohol in foods totally.
The only way to get totally alcohol-free spruce beer is to boil spruce sprigs in water add raw honey and let sit. This really is only a cordial.
Recipe
Four to one ratio, tea/infusion to honey (good, raw, organic honey). (1 litre of spruce infusion to 1 cup of honey)
Boil the roots and the sprigs for about an hour let the infusion steep for a few hours in a warm place add the honey. Place the liquid in soda bottles as in the above recipe and sit in warm place for 2 days.
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Thanks!
Yeah, I know that it's impossible to avoid alcohol 100%. This is for a friend, though, so he won't make it if it's got alcohol in it at all (religious reasons).
Thanks for the cordial recipe! I think he was going to experiement with that anyway later on.
You seem to always have the answer to anything. I'd say let me know when you're in Korea and I'll cook you a meal, but you're probably too far off for that, so here's a cyberhug *hug*!
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Thanks!
Yeah, I know that it's impossible to avoid alcohol 100%. This is for a friend, though, so he won't make it if it's got alcohol in it at all (religious reasons).
Thanks for the cordial recipe! I think he was going to experiement with that anyway later on.
You seem to always have the answer to anything. I'd say let me know when you're in Korea and I'll cook you a meal, but you're probably too far off for that, so here's a cyberhug *hug*!
I live in Sydney Australia so it is a long way off. Here's your *hug* back!
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Does anyone have a recipe for some good non-alcoholic spruce beer? A friend of mine is looking for one!
Help is muchly appreciated!
I happen to have a bottle of spruce beer in the fridge, so I checked, and the ingredients are as Audax has listed. To completely avoid alcohol, what about making the spruce extract, and dissolving the sugar in it, and then adding this to carbonated water? It wouldn't be the real thing, but I sometimes do this when I want ginger beer and don't want to wait.
Mary
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In my opinion any non-alcoholic beer is not a real beer the best beer is Beer of the month in my favorite bar and anything we try to do in our own kitchen is not a beer .
We make beer at home in our kitchen, and it's as good or better as anything you'll get in a bar.... just sayin'.
Spruce beer is a beverage flavored with the buds, needles, or essence of spruce trees. Spruce has been a traditional flavoring ingredient throughout the upper latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere where it is found, often substituting for ingredients otherwise not available, such as hops. Spruce beer can refer to either alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverages.
Spruce Beer Recipe from Pioneer Thinking.
5 gallons of water
1/8 pound of hops
1/2 cup of dried, bruised ginger root
1 pound of the outer twigs of spruce fir
3 quarts of molasses
1/2 yeast cake dissolved in 1/2 cup of warm water or 1/2 cup
of liquid homemade yeast
In a large kettle combine the water, hops, ginger root and
spruce fir twigs. Boil together until all the hops sink to the
bottom of the kettle. Strain into a large crock and stir in the
molasses. After this has cooled add the yeast. Cover and leave
to set for 48 hours. Then bottle, cap and leave in a warm place
(70-75 degrees F) for 5 days. It will now be ready to drink.
Store upright in a cool place.
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