Has anyone out there used hemlock in a beer? If so what are your thoughts and recommendations?
Thanks
Has anyone out there used hemlock in a beer? If so what are your thoughts and recommendations?
Thanks
So are you brewing up a batch of brew for some “friends” that you don’t really like or are you referring to one of the species of Tsuga?
;D Just the Tsuga variety…
Here in southern maine we are surrounded by them. I’ve read that it makes a nice vitamin C charged tea. Was going to snip a bunch of the spring buds, as you would for any other evergreen adjunct but missed my chance. Did get into the mountains recently where I found fir and spruce budding. Filled up a sandwich bag and the resulting ale is bubbling away in primary as I type. I think you are out of luck until next spring. Cheers.
“Hemlock” caught my attention. I remembered that being the poison used to kill Socrates.
Didn’t know it also referred to pine trees.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuga
Tsuga = conifer (pine tree); smell of crushed foliage resembles poison hemlock
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conium
States that Poison Hemlock leaves emit a “rank, unpleasant odor sometimes compared to that of parsnips or mice.”
Yikes!
Hemlock poison :o
I was planning on doing a Christmas beer using spruce tips if I ever get around to it.
I’ve only used eye of newt…
I thought you meant the poisonous variety too…
As to the tree, I guess you could use the tips just like spruce. I’ve had a really good spruce stout once or twice.