Years back I found this book Called "Brewing the World's Great Beers: BY Dave Miller and and found a flyer from Seven Bridges Cooperative out of Santa Cruz stuck between the pages. Looks to be from the 1992 era, which had this recipe:
Heather Ale (Mash Extract)
Ingredients for 5 gallons:
5# Organic pale malt extract
2# Organic 2-row malt
1# Organic Munich malt
½# Organic caramel 60L malt
1# Organic clover honey
2 oz. Heather tips
1 oz. Organic Pride of Ringwood hop pellets
½ oz. Organic German Select hop pellets
Yeast: WY1728 Scottish Ale or dry Whitbread ale yeast
Optional: ¾ cup corn sugar for bottling, ¼ tsp Irish Moss, and 1 tsp. gypsum
O.G: 1.060-1.066 F.G. 1.012-1.018 Approx IBU’s: 36
Directions for brewing:
Mash the whole grains in 1 ½ to 2 gallons of water for 30 in. to 1 hour at 150 degrees F. Rinse the grains with 2 gallons of 150 degree F water. Add the extract & honey to the water collected plus enough water to make 5 ½ gallons. Bring to a boil. Once boiling, add 1 oz. of the Heather tips and the Pride of Ringwood hops and boil for 49 minutes. Add ½ oz. German Select hops and the Irish Moss and boil for 15 minutes. Add 1 oz. of Heather Tips, boil 5 more minutes, and turn the heat off. Let steep for 5 to 10 minutes before cooling to 70 degrees F. Pitch the yeast and ferment for 2-3 weeks, until complete. Add ½ to 1 oz. heather tips to the secondary fermenter if desired. Add priming sugar (3/4 cup corn sugar, ¾ cup organic cane sugar, or ½ cup honey) and bottle. Enjoy after 1-4 weeks of bottle conditioning.
Heather Ale (Mash Extract)
Ingredients for 5 gallons:
5# Organic pale malt extract
2# Organic 2-row malt
1# Organic Munich malt
½# Organic caramel 60L malt
1# Organic clover honey
2 oz. Heather tips
1 oz. Organic Pride of Ringwood hop pellets
½ oz. Organic German Select hop pellets
Yeast: WY1728 Scottish Ale or dry Whitbread ale yeast
Optional: ¾ cup corn sugar for bottling, ¼ tsp Irish Moss, and 1 tsp. gypsum
O.G: 1.060-1.066 F.G. 1.012-1.018 Approx IBU’s: 36
Directions for brewing:
Mash the whole grains in 1 ½ to 2 gallons of water for 30 in. to 1 hour at 150 degrees F. Rinse the grains with 2 gallons of 150 degree F water. Add the extract & honey to the water collected plus enough water to make 5 ½ gallons. Bring to a boil. Once boiling, add 1 oz. of the Heather tips and the Pride of Ringwood hops and boil for 49 minutes. Add ½ oz. German Select hops and the Irish Moss and boil for 15 minutes. Add 1 oz. of Heather Tips, boil 5 more minutes, and turn the heat off. Let steep for 5 to 10 minutes before cooling to 70 degrees F. Pitch the yeast and ferment for 2-3 weeks, until complete. Add ½ to 1 oz. heather tips to the secondary fermenter if desired. Add priming sugar (3/4 cup corn sugar, ¾ cup organic cane sugar, or ½ cup honey) and bottle. Enjoy after 1-4 weeks of bottle conditioning.