Thread: I miss the sound of exploding bottles.

Ginger beer

I just buy the Bundaberg Ginger Beer from the drink fridge at all good stockists. Bloody hard to beat.

The Old fashioned ginger beer plant or wort you remember is alcoholic.
It carbonates as a by product of yeast and sugar fermenting.

The Bundy stuff is non alcoholic.

Hmm a bitta playin wif a recipe and with the right yeast could give 30% proof ginger beer.

Now that'd taste much better than the last lot of hooch I made
Drunk on 1 glass
Fall off a kitchen chair after 2 glasses :eek:
Crawl to bed after 3 glasses.

Hmmm, where did I put me fermenters an thermometers etc, sounds like a good exercize,

purely from a scientific point of view you realise

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

I just buy the Bundaberg Ginger Beer from the drink fridge at all good stockists. Bloody hard to beat.

Even better when you have a brother that lives in Bundy and visits every couple of months with a carton of Bundy Ginger Beer and a ctn of their real Sarsparilla as well.

Bleedin,

My mum used to make Ginger Beer like that, I'll ask her next time we're on the phone and see what I can do!

Originally Posted by Wood Butcher

...a carton of Bundy Ginger Beer and a ctn of their real Sarsparilla as well....!

I like the Sars but it has a bit too much sugar for old pharts.

Thanks Rowan.
Also Bob if you are right ....No wander I liked it so much when I was younger.
PS about 15 years ago or so I went through the home brew kick and made a few good bevies. I did do a ginger beer mix once only - alcoholic of course. I dont know what I did wrong but it was the best brew I ever made. I called it Ginger Champagne. It poured and held its bead just as champagne does but with a ginger beer taste it also had a kick...What more can one ask for.

Also Cliff there is no comparison between good home made and mass produced Ginger beer. Infact I bet there is a good Sars recipe out there waiting to be rediscovered.

Originally Posted by Bleedin Thumb

.....Cliff there is no comparison between good home made and mass produced Ginger beer.....

I'm lazy & I still reckon they can do a better job than me.

Guess your right, anyway at least you dont have to risk a whole batch exploding under your house.

Remember the Marchants bottles with the plastic screw on top? The glass was thick with channels all over like a hand grenade, come to think of it it behaved like a hand grenade as well

I remember waking up in the shower fully clothed water running after a few glasses of a rather effective batch. :eek: :eek:

i remember when i was a kid having a ginger beer plant in the kitchen and haveing to feed it untill ready to bottle then stashed under the house ,also remember my brother and i getting the jug cord around our butts for helping our selves to a few bottles

So we werent the only kids to get the jug cord?

Unless.... is that you Bro?

Doesn't seem to have done you any harm

All the good work done by the jug cord and the Catholic upbringing seems to have come unravelled once I discovered sex, drugs and rock & roll

Then I discovered the joy of wood. Helleluiah, Praise the Lord!

So no more sex, drugs and rock & roll