I've brewed a number of different heather ales over the last handful of years. This is the most recent one, as requested in the 'Pics of recent brews' topic. This was a 5 gallon batch.
Fermentables:
10 lb - Golden Promise
2 lb - Vienna
1.5 lb - Crystal 40
1 lb - Honey Malt
1.5 lb - Honey (I used tupelo honey, but whatever you want)
Mash at 152° for 75 min
Boil schedule:
60 min - EKG - .5 oz
60 min - Heather tips - 2 oz
30 min - Fuggle - .5 oz
30 min - Heather tips - 2 oz
30 min - Meadowsweet - .25 oz
30 min - Mugwort - .25 oz
5 min - Heather tips - 2 oz
5 min - Meadowsweet - .25 oz
5 min - Mugwort - .25 oz
Yeast - WLP028 Edinburgh Scottish ale
3 additional things to mention:
After kegging, I added another 8 oz of dissolved honey (again tupelo) to backsweeten. I believe my amounts on the heather tips were a bit too high, and the beer was a little bitter in the finish. The backsweetening took care of this, as well as adding a nice full honey flavor to the beer. Although this won't be possible if you're bottle conditioning.
As mentioned in the previous note, I believe I had a little too much heather in the recipe. What I have posted above has already been adjusted to reduce it. When I brew this again, I will follow the recipe posted above.
Heather tips can pretty much be found at any homebrewing supplier at this point. Some of the other things (like mugwort) can be harder to locate. I usually get heather tips this kind of stuff here:
https://wildweeds.com/.