{"id":82,"date":"2008-11-09T22:25:07","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T21:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/?p=82"},"modified":"2026-01-28T23:54:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:54:35","slug":"nettle-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/nettle-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Nettle Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/20170520_190831-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1459\" style=\"aspect-ratio:4\/3;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/20170520_190831-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/20170520_190831-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/20170520_190831-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/20170520_190831-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/20170520_190831-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/20170520_190831-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>6 ltr water<br>A small carrier bag of nettle tops, washed<br>Juice of 1 lemon, strained<br>Juice of 1 orange, strained<br>750g caster sugar<br>30g cream of tartar<br>5g yeast<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Bring the water to the boil in a large pan.<br>2. Add nettles, stir, then remove the pan from the heat and leave to infuse for at least an hour until it is at blood temperature.<br>3. Carefully \u2013 you might want to enlist a helper at this point &#8211; strain the nettle liquid through a colander lined with a large piece of unbleached muslin into a large brewing bucket or pan. Once the liquid has filtered through, squeeze the muslin to get the maximum amount of liquid into the bucket.<br>4. Gradually add the sugar, stirring constantly to ensure it is thoroughly dissolved, then add the cream of tartar, and lemon and orange juice.<br>5. Finally, once the mixture is tepid, stir in the yeast. Cover and leave for 2-3 days in a warm place, until it\u2019s obviously fermenting.<br>6. Remove any scum which has risen to the top in fermentation and siphon the beer into sterilised bottles and seal with corks.<br>7. Leave for at least a couple more days or up to a month before drinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 ltr waterA small carrier bag of nettle tops, washedJuice of 1 lemon, strainedJuice of 1 orange, strained750g caster sugar30g cream of tartar5g yeast 1. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[65,64],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drinks","tag-beer","tag-nettle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notnick.com\/cookbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}