How To Make Rhubarb Beer

Add to a saucepan with the sugar and water.

How to make rhubarb beer. In a clean and sanitised fermentation bucket add the rhubarb stalks cut up into inch pieces and chopped raisins to a straining bag. Tomorrow i ll strain the juice into a demijohn top it up with warm water adda sachet of wine yeastand fit an airlock. Simmer for 20 minutes or until the sugar has dissolved and the rhubarb is tender.

Thinly slice the rhubarb. Preheat fan forced oven to 180 c. Chop up the rhubarb stalks into 5cm 2 pieces.

Cook slowly until the juices start coming out of the rhubarb then turn the heat up a bit. When done tip the roasted rhubarb stalk into a large sterilised jar along with all its juices. Add the sugar and gin and stir to mix.

Carry on cooking until the rhubarb is completely soft. The process started by chopping up 3lbs of rhubarb bashing it up a bit with a rolling pin in a bucket and adding 3lbs of sugar. 2 spread rhubarb in a baking dish sprinkle with caster sugar or honey and orange juice and bake for 20 minutes or until tender then set rhubarb and pan juices aside.

In a pan combine the sugar with 1 9 litres of water and bring to the boil. Add a little extra orange juice if there are no juices left in the pan. I was thinking of putting a gallon or two of juice on the stove and adding the rhubarb as if i were mashing beer basically get it up to about 160 degrees and keep it there for an hour or so then drain the juice off add sweetener and cold juice maybe even frozen concentrate for additional sweetness and yeast.