Dried Elderflowers in beer

[floydmeddler]

Has anyone ever tried using dried elderflowers when making beer before? I've just drank a bottle of Badger Golden Champion and thought it was amazing. It is brewed with elderflowers and the only elderflowers I can get my hands on are dried.

Any thoughts/advice/warnings etc?
Cheers

[haz66]

I`ve brewed 2 brews with elderflower, the first was amazing, the second is still a week or so off being ready.
Brew with hops as normal and bung between 15g and 25g in for the last 15mins, turns a normal ale into a summer ale

[booldawg]

Worked well for me too. Think I used 20g in a 20L brewlength, boiled for last 10 minutes.

[charlie]

I've done a couple as well.
Turns out fine, but a little hazy.

[floydmeddler]

I`ve brewed 2 brews with elderflower, the first was amazing, the second is still a week or so off being ready.
Brew with hops as normal and bung between 15g and 25g in for the last 15mins, turns a normal ale into a summer ale

Cool. Did you use dried or fresh?

[haz66]

I`ve brewed 2 brews with elderflower, the first was amazing, the second is still a week or so off being ready.
Brew with hops as normal and bung between 15g and 25g in for the last 15mins, turns a normal ale into a summer ale

Cool. Did you use dried or fresh?

I used dried as there were no fresh ones around when i did them,so bought some dried ones off Ebay.

[Billy Hunt]

Did you use the elderflowers in addition to the aroma hops or in place of the aroma hops?

[floydmeddler]

Did you use the elderflowers in addition to the aroma hops or in place of the aroma hops?

That's interesting. Would be nice to add some as aroma as well as flavouring.

[haz66]

Did you use the elderflowers in addition to the aroma hops or in place of the aroma hops?

No i still put aroma hops in, i guess if you put more elderflower in you could do away with aroma hops, but
god knows how much you would need and what it would taste like, depends on how much elderflower taste you want.

[Billy Hunt]

Cheers Haz.

[Mike the pint supper]

Just a quick addition badgers golden glory has a elderflower addition to it if I remember correctly the AG recipie I've seen it's 10g for the last 10mins

[Billy Hunt]

Well I finally got round to making an Elderflower type beer last week. It was basically a Big Lamp brew based on Graham Wheelers recipe with 50g of dried Elderflower added at the last 20 minutes of the boil. I racked the stuff this morning and the beer is very light and clear with a slight aroma and taste of Elderflower.

[critch]

did one with styrian goldings(bobek) a few months ago had a few mates raving about it i used 50g for a 10 gallon batch(60l brewlength), i used dried elderflower the elderflower taste was a little muted so ive redone it using organic elderflower infusion (basicly its bottlegreen elderflower cordial, but from the supplier i got it from, its 2 pound a litre not 3.99 for 750 ml....)