[MR] In search of Bog Myrtle seeds/plants

[Layne R. Sunderlin]

Bog Myrtle is also known as Sweet Gale.

 

From:

 Mead Lover's Digest #233  18 November 1993

 

            Forum for Discussion of Mead Making and Consuming

 

Date: 01 Dec 92 12:33:46 EST

From: James Spence <70740.1107 at compuserve.com>

Subject: Gale Seed Source

 

We have found the following source for those of you who have been looking
for

sweet gale seeds to brew Pierre Rajotte's Belgian Ale recipe:

 

Desjardins Herboriste

3303 Ste. Catherine St. E.

Montreal, Quebec  H1W 2C5

Tel: (514) 523-4860

 

Pierre says 250 grams is $3.56 plus shipping (Canadian dollars I assume).
He

also says 250 grams is more than a lifetime supply.  The recipe for Santa

Claus' Magic Potion calls for 1 gram of seeds.

 

James

 

Also: 

 

Myrica gale (in the wax myrtle family - Myricaceae) is a boreal species
common to northern latitudes in both the eastern and western hemispheres.
Some botanists treat this single somewhat variable species as several
distinct species (thus your different scientific name). It's all pretty much
the same animal. Myrica gale occurs in the Southern Appalachians (as far
south as Henderson County, NC, where it is exceedingly rare in bogs). In the
mtns of West Virginia you will find it occurring in fairly large numbers in
such areas as Dolly Sods in Monongahela National Forest. It occurs almost
continuously across boreal Canada and Alaska, northern Japan and adjacent
Russia, and Scandanavia and northern Europe. It was a common ingredient in
the gruits of early ales, the use of which was displaced by the introduction
of hops..."

 

Hope this helps. 

 

YIS,  Hargrove the Wanderer

 

 

  "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment 

  that something else is more important than fear." 

 

                                -Ambrose Redmoon-

 

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Subject: [MR] In search of Bog Myrtle seeds/plants

 

Greetings Listmembers,

We are looking for bog myrtle seeds or plants.  Does anyone have any 

sources, or someone in Scotland who could get us some?  We wish to grow 

it, not brew with it (at least not yet).

 

Sincerely,

 

Lady Margaret

Baron Llywelyn

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