Brewing ginger beer

[Kai]

I would like to brew some ginger beer (and some apple cider, too). However, I'd rather do it from scratch than use one of the ginger beer kits on the market. All the traditional recipes I have seem to rely on using the in-bottle pressure to kill off the yeast and prevent complete fermentation of the sugars. I would like to do mine in a way as similar to the normal home brew process as possible. Does anyone here have some tips and/or recipes they can share with a young grasshopper?

[Frank - Coopers Brewery]

This is the one I have used for years. Works well with a wine yeast too!

 

 

 

1.5 kg Coopers Light LME

 

1.0 kg Dextrose

 

1 X sachet Ale yeast

 

2 X large peices of ginger

 

1 X cinnamon stick

 

4 X cloves

 

 

 

Wash, peal and chop ginger into 5mm slices. Place all spices into hop bag with ginger and boil for 1/2 an hour in 3 litres of water. Once boiled, pour water into sanitised fermenter and add LME and dextrose. Dissolve sugar and malt then add hop bag and top up to 20 litres. Pitch yeast and ferment out and bottle as you would a beer.

 

 

 

Frank Akers - Coopers Brewery

[Kai]

Thanks, frank. That's an excellent-looking recipe