[Stones] bronze age ale

[Merryn Dineley]

The meadowsweet is pretty good just now. Indeed it does like damp soil 
conditions. We were smelling the meadowsweet around Brodgar today; there 
is about half an acre or more of it. As I wandered the car park picking 
up litter (mostly cigarette butts)in my capacity as a volunteer ranger.
merryn

Ric wrote:
> ah, meadowsweet - if you only knew what that meant to
> me?
> 
> one of flowers from which the wizards Gwydion and Math
> conjured Blodeuwedd - 'flowerlike' - the god Lleu's
> beautiful consort
> 
> i found myself in a sunny glade of meadowsweet several
> years ago, in a part of Wild North Wales, with a
> hidden brook running beneath my feet, which i could
> hear but not see ...
> 
> also noticed meadowsweet growing around the base of
> Silbury, it seems to like damp soil conditions?
> 
> ;)
> 
> Ric
> 
> 
> --- Merryn Dineley <merryn at dineley.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>hi Ric, my mail went down for a while so I am just
>>catching up.
>>
>>Well, the fodder bit is interesting. Spent grain
>>makes excellent animal 
>>fodder. It is the barley husks that remain after
>>beer has been made. 
>>Cows love it.
>>
>>I think malts and ale are the only thing you can
>>usefully do with 
>>barley. It is impossible to grind unmalted barley
>>into flour using a 
>>saddle quern. But you can easily crush the malted
>>barley. The whole 
>>thing is complicated to explain but it is simple
>>really. If you are 
>>interested then I have some publications?....
>>
>>My husband is making some meadowsweet ale just now.
>>
>>Merryn
> 
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