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Thread: Ginger Beer Brewers
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2nd June 2007, 06:51 PM #1
Ginger Beer Brewers
Ok,
lets not have these Ale and lager guys have this forum to themselves...
Let us know who you are, me I have only done a couple of brews, all using the standard recipe. Though I am thinking of making some modifications to the next brew.
So come on lets hear from the ginger beer brewers amongst usI may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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2nd June 2007, 06:54 PM #2
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2nd June 2007, 07:26 PM #3
Try the Cascade stuff too Cliff. I used to be a Bundy man but it's got a bit sweet for me.
BTW, I used to brew ginger beer using shredded ginger, brewers yeast and sugar, I'll see if I can dig out the recipe. I bottled half of it at half fermentation as a sweet beer and let the rest ferment out which ended up being like a beautiful ginger champagne.
Cheers
Michael
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2nd June 2007, 09:18 PM #4
mic-d
That would be great, I have been curious about the old way of doing itI may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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2nd June 2007, 09:52 PM #5
Ginger Beer.
To make the ginger beer "plant", place in a jar eight sultanas, juice of two lemons, one teaspoon lemon pulp, four teaspoons sugar, two teaspoons ground ginger and two cups cold water. Cover lightly with a cloth. In warm weaher, leave three or four days by which time it should be starting to ferment.
Then each day for one week, add two teaspoons ground ginger and four teaspoons sugar to the "plant". It should be ready at the end of the week to make into beer.
To make beer, place four cups of sugar, four cups of boiling water and the juice of four lemons into a large bowl. Stir untill sugar is dissolved. Strain the plant into it through a fine cloth, squeeze dry. Add 28 cups of cold water and stir. Pour into bottles and cork down.
Leave two weeks before using.
To keep the "plant" alive for another batch of beer, halve the "plant" in the cloth and place in a jar with two cups cold water. Continue to feed it with four teaspoons sugar and two tablespoons groung ginger for one week.
This is one that my father used when I was a child, but I can't remember how it turned out.Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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2nd June 2007, 10:20 PM #6
tameriska
You are a legend, every recipe I have seen say's add ginger beer plant, but none tell you how to make the plant.
Will have to try that with my next brew.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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2nd June 2007, 10:29 PM #7
Tameriska,
I can't remember if that is the same recipie we used, but my Grandparents, mother and myself all had the plants for our own kids. It turns out fine, but its a bit like those dragons of yours, dont meddle with the brew. I've got memories of bottles left two long in the cupboard blowing their tops, or opened with enough fizz to empty all but the last couple of centimetres of the bottle. For Gra, its great fun for the kids seeing the process and getting to drink the product.
Cheers, John
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2nd June 2007, 10:34 PM #8
John,
gotta agree there, the last bottling was a production line that consisted of my 18 mth old passing a bottle to my 3 yr old, who added the sugar cube and passed it to me. I then filled it and passed it to my wife, who added the top and boxed it.
Might as well get them involved, as they drink the most of it.I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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2nd June 2007, 11:23 PM #9
Think I mentioned this before but Tameriskas recipe was used by me as a teenager stopped when the corks in the bottles lying on their sides got tired of being there and 'escaped'. Unfortunately dads Mercedes had both the front side windows in the firing line. Not happy is a bloody understatement.
Mic-d share more on turning it into champane. We get ginger wine by the flagon from a MaClaren Vale winery.
TonyI would love to grow my own food, but I can not find bacon seeds
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2nd June 2007, 11:27 PM #10I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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2nd June 2007, 11:29 PM #11
yeah but you seen the shape they go.
I would love to grow my own food, but I can not find bacon seeds
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2nd June 2007, 11:36 PM #12I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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3rd June 2007, 09:34 AM #13
Ok, looks like I should have aded a warning to that recipie,
Use at Own Risk ,
(and keep it away from Mercs )Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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3rd June 2007, 10:46 AM #14
Not quite true Gra, I managed to detonate a dozen of them after misreading the hydrometer on a cider I made, was still in primary when I bottled and started the secondary, was not a pretty sight.
The shed has a nice bouquette for a while though, and the rats were enough that I could round them up and bag them without protestStupidity kills. Absolute stupidity kills absolutely.
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3rd June 2007, 09:05 PM #15
Coopers
Coopers make a fine brew for the homebrewer you can go either way non or alcholic which ever takes your fancy the alcoholic one is a very nice drop with a 3% alco content
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