TimT
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I'm just wondering if anyone wants to pick and send me any horehound.
Apparently it's a weed here in Australia, that tends to grow in paddocks that have been grazed by livestock. Unfortunately here in the burbs I haven't seen any. Anyway, it's good stuff! You can use it to provide bitter in beer; it's a member of the mint family so there's some potential of getting minty flavours from the leaf, and apparently it was a popular hop-substitute back in ye olde early dayes of brewing.
I bought some dried horehound recently from a naturalist, but a) there wasn't very much, and B) if it's growing prolifically somewhere near me why would I bother?
So yep, if anyone could help me out that would be great. I'd reimburse for postage costs and send some bottles of the final brew. Alternatively, if anyone knows of somewhere around Melbourne that this stuff tends to grow, that would be great. (As it's a mint it probably would have been largely dormant over winter, but it will probably be springing up again all over the place soon.)
Apparently it's a weed here in Australia, that tends to grow in paddocks that have been grazed by livestock. Unfortunately here in the burbs I haven't seen any. Anyway, it's good stuff! You can use it to provide bitter in beer; it's a member of the mint family so there's some potential of getting minty flavours from the leaf, and apparently it was a popular hop-substitute back in ye olde early dayes of brewing.
I bought some dried horehound recently from a naturalist, but a) there wasn't very much, and B) if it's growing prolifically somewhere near me why would I bother?
So yep, if anyone could help me out that would be great. I'd reimburse for postage costs and send some bottles of the final brew. Alternatively, if anyone knows of somewhere around Melbourne that this stuff tends to grow, that would be great. (As it's a mint it probably would have been largely dormant over winter, but it will probably be springing up again all over the place soon.)