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I've wanted to brew more with foraged ingredients. I've got both The Homebrewer's Almanac written by the folks at Scratch Brewing as well as Brewing Local by Stan Hieronymus. Both books serve as great resource to the numerous ingredients you could forage within the US. They both contain recipes, potential users of the ingredients, and expected aroma/flavor contributions.
I live in a pretty large metro in the US, Atlanta. So perhaps foraging here is a bit more challenging than other places. I've currently got a blackberry and raspberry berliner on tap that featured about half a pound per gallon of wild picked blackberries. I've used wild blackberries in the past, the first time they were much more wild and tart tasting. This most recent batch offered more fruity/berry flavors.
I've also experimented with using Honey Suckle in a saison. That was quite a chore to pick all the Honey Suckle to use in a beer. I ended up steeping them at flame out essentially to make a tea. It turned out alright, but wasn't exactly a honey suckle character like you smell from the flowers. If I had to do those over again i'd definitely dry them and add them at secondary. I think that'd deliver a much more pleasant floral character.
Good luck.
Do yourself a favor and grab a copy of The Homebrewer's Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to Making Your Own Beer from Scratch. The author runs a brewery in southern Illinois called Scratch which has a huge emphasis on brewing with foraged ingredients and spices, which sounds like something you'd be interested in. Their Spring Tonic was a super refreshing standout beer for me, could be some nice inspiration for a recipe idea.
Scaling herbs in a gruit - does anyone know if this is linear? Trying to figure out a large batch (10 - 20 gallons) and trying to use some of the recipes from Homebrewer's Almanac and Against All Hops for inspiration.
We've made a Saison with Rhubarb and used the process described in The Homebrewer's Almanac (https://www.amazon.com/Homebrewers-Almanac-Seasonal-Making-Scratch/dp/1581573499). Chopped it finely, covered with water in a small kettle/saucepan, reduced that down into a syrup and racked the finished beer onto that in secondary. The aroma and flavor came through nicely.
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