ben 10 Posted November 19, 2019 Share Posted November 19, 2019 There is some discussion regarding the departed Coopers Ginger thing here so I thought I'd start a thread for recipe discussion. I have used MJ's puch and it was good, others have not liked it. Here is Dr. Smurto's Quote Here is my most commonly brewed GB. 20L batch 1.25 kg ginger (0.75kg fresh and 0.5kg that has been stored in the fridge for >2 months) 2.5 kg raw sugar 1 cinnamon stick 6 cloves (the spice, not garlic.....) 2 lemons Champagne yeast Puree the ginger, skin and all. Chop lemon roughly. Boil everything for 30 mins to 1 hour. Cool. Top up to 20L in fermenter. Pitch yeast (and some nutrient if you have some on hand). Finishes close to 1.000. This results in a very dry GB with an ABV of ~7%. I often ater it down with lemonade for some added sweetness as I can't stand the idea of artificial sweeteners, they taste horrible. Without artificial sweeteners you can't make sweet GB in a bottle and in a keg it will still ferment albeit slowly. Other options include using honey or steeping some crystal malt and boiling the resulting liquid. Hope that helps. Which I am making today. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Journeyman Posted November 19, 2019 Share Posted November 19, 2019 Let us know how it goes please. I'd like to make some once I get a few beers in the cupboard. And I'm not thrilled over the artificial sweeteners they use in the kits. (and in the cider ones) There's enough carcinogens around without drinking them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben 10 Posted November 19, 2019 Author Share Posted November 19, 2019 Will do. It will be dry as a nun's nasty but kegged so I can sweeten it in there. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris75 Posted November 19, 2019 Share Posted November 19, 2019 I just put one of these down after reading the other post. The only change I made was using 3 cinnamon sticks, adding 10 small chillis and I had 100g of lactose in the cupboard so I added that as well to hopefully sweeten it a touch. I'm using Lalvin EC1118 yeast. What's the ideal ferment temp for this? I've set it to 20c. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben 10 Posted November 19, 2019 Author Share Posted November 19, 2019 I am using SN9 wine yeast as I had it. I have mine in the laundry without temp control. All my beers are without temp control atm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Journeyman Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 19 hours ago, Jumping jack flash said: (Hopefully might be some food for thought, i screen shot just incase the link fails...i suck at phones ) This is the link... https://www.thehopandgrain.com.au/brew-ginger-beer/ 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocean's of Ale- Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 @Journeyman cheers mate, Honestly i would fail a HIA concussion test, that's before i start drinking. Many thanks brother! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris75 Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 First time using a champagne yeast and it didn't kick off. SG still at 1.062 so I threw in 2 sachets of lager yeast left over from coopers cans as that's all I had on hand. Fingers crossed it works ok. It does taste amazing though at the moment although very sweet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris75 Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 On 11/22/2019 at 10:25 AM, Chris75 said: First time using a champagne yeast and it didn't kick off. SG still at 1.062 so I threw in 2 sachets of lager yeast left over from coopers cans as that's all I had on hand. Fingers crossed it works ok. It does taste amazing though at the moment although very sweet. OK, I'm stumped. Even with the lager yeast this still hasn't kicked off. I put a dessert spoon of yeast nutrient in when I pitched the first yeast. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocean's of Ale- Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 Just bottled my ginger beer, loosely based on wychwoods ginger beard. 15 liters batch/ 9 liter boil/ og 1.041 fg 1.010 +0.5% primmer 4.57%abv Base: 1.5 kg cws briess pilsner malt Fermentables :250gs of dark brown sugar. Grains: 250g's of caramunich 2 malt grain. 100g's of honey malt grain. 50gs of biscuit malt grain. Spices : 500gs of frozen ginger (peeled prior to freezing) 2 -3 heaped teaspoons of dry ginger extract. 2 heaped teaspoons of cayenne pepper. yeast: fermentis US04 Fermented for 10days & cold crashed for 1 just to drop out ginger. preliminary tastings suggest this won't be as sweet or hot as i'd hoped for, but it has an amazing scented smell of honey and fresh ginger about it. Bring on Christmas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris75 Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 It looks like the lager yeast just took a bit of time to get going and is moving along nicely now. SG is down to 1.030 already so about half way there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Von Blotto Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 (edited) Yeah it doesn't start fermenting as soon as you pitch it, there is a lag time. 24 hours is pretty normal. Perhaps it kicked off the champagne yeast, there's no way any beer yeast would drop it 32 points in a day. Edited November 25, 2019 by Otto Von Blotto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben 10 Posted November 25, 2019 Author Share Posted November 25, 2019 Mine is 1020... tastes great and still going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris75 Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 On 11/25/2019 at 5:40 PM, Ben 10 said: Mine is 1020... tastes great and still going. Mine is down to 1016 now. I hope it settles out when it's done though as it is completely opaque with at the moment. On 11/25/2019 at 4:50 PM, Otto Von Blotto said: Yeah it doesn't start fermenting as soon as you pitch it, there is a lag time. 24 hours is pretty normal. Perhaps it kicked off the champagne yeast, there's no way any beer yeast would drop it 32 points in a day. Yeah I thought it dropped pretty quick. I've just bumped up the temp from 13c to 20c bumped as per the quick lager method. I need to bottle it before next wed So i need to hurry it along and get it cold crashing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben 10 Posted November 30, 2019 Author Share Posted November 30, 2019 Kegged mine a little early today, it was around 1.005 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris75 Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 Mine is down to 1.000 now. I have to bottle Wednesday so I'll cold crash from tomorrow assuming I get a stable reading. I just hope this sediment drops out. How cloudy was yours Ben 10? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben 10 Posted December 1, 2019 Author Share Posted December 1, 2019 2 hours ago, Chris75 said: How cloudy was yours Ben 10? First pour from the keg looked like the Torrens River. Next was better. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris75 Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 6 hours ago, Ben 10 said: First pour from the keg looked like the Torrens River. Next was better. So it should settle out then hopefully. Did it look as bad as mine prior to kegging? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben 10 Posted December 1, 2019 Author Share Posted December 1, 2019 yes it did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris75 Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 Ok. So it's now down to 0.998. I'll check again tomorrow and hopefully it's stable, which I expect it to be, then I can cold crash for a day before I bottle. Not Ideal but i don't really want to leave it for 2 weeks while I'm away. This is going to end up close to 9% bottled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris75 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Well I bottled this today after reaching a FG of 0.996. Out of 20 L I only managed to bottle about 15 or so due to the amount of solids in the fermenter. I'm guessing this is why the ABV has ended up so high. I bulk primed allowing for 19L@5.5g/L so it will probably end up over carbed. If this actually ends up tasting OK I'd like to try it again but strain out the solids after the boil. Would this work or would I lose too much of flavour? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben 10 Posted December 5, 2019 Author Share Posted December 5, 2019 I juiced my ginger therefore did not have that issue. The first one I made - a few years back - did. 3 hours ago, Chris75 said: Would this work or would I lose too much of flavour? I'm sure it would be fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Naughty Corner Brewing Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 22 hours ago, Ben 10 said: That looks so good Benny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben 10 Posted December 9, 2019 Author Share Posted December 9, 2019 Annnnnnnd Keg is gone.. 1 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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