My summer "forage Toronto" beer challenge...need s

atomeyes · Post by **atomeyes** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 7:19 pm

Hoping you guys can help me out in 2 ways. Read on...

So I thought about an ode to Toronto w/regards to my summer beer. I'm looking at using fruits or ingredients that I can either forage or that are in season in Toronto/Niagara. I've come up with a tentative list of fruit and beer.

Fruit: sumac, raspberries, apples, crab apples, peaches, apricots, mullberries, plums, pears.

The easiest beer styles would be blondes, heifweizens and possibly stouts (chocolate peach stout, anyone?). Also thinking of saisons (e.g. crabapples in a dry saison), brett-only beer, sours.

So what I'm looking for:

1. thoughts/suggestions on fruit matching or recipes that involve the above fruit
2. locations where I can forage for things such as crab apples, sumac (I have both of these), mullberries, etc.

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 1:17 am

I don't know much about trees, but some sumac is poisonous.

Rhubarb might work in a tart brew.

I haven't had mulberries in years... love those things. I'd never plant a tree though, too much purple bird crap!

atomeyes · Post by **atomeyes** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 6:58 am

Derek wrote:I don't know much about trees, but some sumac is poisonous.

Rhubarb might work in a tart brew.

I haven't had mulberries in years... love those things. I'd never plant a tree though, too much purple bird crap!

sumac that you mostly see around toronto isn't poisonous. that species is used for lemonade and arab spices.

http://blog.localfoody.net/wp-content/u ... nSumac.jpg

you'll find this along roads and in a lot of toronto parks. it makes excellent lemonade.

elproducto · Post by **elproducto** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 8:14 am

Goose shit?

I'm going to try racking a gallon of my Berliner Weisse on some rhubarb this summer.

duncan · Post by **duncan** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 3:59 am

www.notfarfromthetree.org