Acorn Beer?

[Mylo]

A cereal mash of the nut meat would likely be in order.

Come on! He said mashing nut meet?!?!? What, nobody?




Mylo

[Dirk McLargeHuge]

A cereal mash of the nut meat would likely be in order.

Come on! He said mashing nut meet?!?!? What, nobody?




Mylo

[spiderwrangler]

A cereal mash of the nut meat would likely be in order.

Come on! He said mashing nut meet?!?!? What, nobody?




Mylo

I believe that Bug is referring to the stinging nettles. As long as you are harvesting young shoots, or the developing tips of the plant, the secondary metabolites are likely not present. I suppose that the process of making the tea may also break down some of the compounds that may be responsible for the stinging part.

[Bugeater]

Spiderwrangler is right. Just the emerging leaves of the stinging nettles.

Wayne

[alan_marks]

What...no video of mashing nut meat?

On second thought...

[crawfow]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LScN0PjagUE

[animaldoc]

I've always taken pride in the fact I will try any food once.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LScN0PjagUE

There is an exception to EVERY rule.

[Cliff]

How could one come up with a recipe to replicate this historical brew?

Easy. Just get yourself some acorns, toast 'em in the oven, grind them into a grainy flour and mix that into your Tun with the malt.
Then starch test test for conversion.

Ya might do a test run with some cheap 2 row just to see if the enzymes will convert the chestnut starches.
You might want to experiment with protein rests too because they are so very dense with protein.

The "beer" they brewed may not have been beer at all though.
The word beer gets used for pretty much any alcoholic drink that can't be labeled wine because of some effete sensibility about what wine is - or isn't.

It might have been like prison hooch or potato booze or whatever. They might have used a baker's yeast to ferment for the alcohol and then just strained it.