Ginger Beer Recipes

[Hairy]

I am not a huge fan of ginger beer but I need to brew a batch for someone else.

 

Does anyone have any good recipes they are willing to share for pimping out the Coopers Ginger Beer kit? Or even making GB from scratch without the kit?

 

I should have paid more attention to all the previous GB threads that I just glossed over [innocent]

[PhilboBaggins]

Didn't Chad have one which began with the Mexican Cerveza for a base? [unsure]

 

Edit: Here it is.

[Hairy]

Thanks Phil.

 

I am after a more traditional ginger beer rather than a normal beer that is ginger flavoured.

[ShaunaB]

I use the coopers base, but I also add extra ginger in a bag along with a cinnamon stick. I add double the sugar that's recommended and I use the demerara sugar as I love the caramelly flavour it gives.

With the extra sugar in there I tend to leave it to ferment for 2 weeks or more. The first brew of it I did, I was a little eager to get it bottled and I lost 7. [crying]

It does taste very sweet if you open just at the 3 weeks stage after bottling, but it does lose that slightly after a while and if it lasts that long.

I think the next time I brew it I will experiment with the type of sugar, I might try just raw sugar this time 'round. Hope this was what you were after!!

[Hairy]

That's the kind of response I was after.

 

Thanks for your input ShaunaB and welcome to the forum.

[PhilboBaggins]

Welcome ShaunaB!

 

First post and a member for over 3 years! Better late than never I say. [cool]

 

Maybe I'll do a GB as well for summer.

 

Edit: Just noticed my Zapp picture is broken again. Why can't folks on the internet just leave things the way they are? [pinched]

[LordEoin]

here's a recipe I pilfered and modified from somewhere at some stage:

 

2.5kg DME

1kg ginger root (peeled, diced, boiled 10 min, added to fv)

25g northern Brewer@ 30min

25g saaz @30 min

1 teaspoon of cayenne pepper

danstar nottingham yeast

to 23L

[PhilboBaggins]

OMG, yum!

[LeCoq/Rooster]

The GB base is terrible IMO. THe aftertaste has a foul almost chemical flavour, like those sugar/sweet additive tablets craxy people use, that turned me off it for good. I'm pretty sure, from memory, that it doesn't actually contain ginger.

 

I'm researching recipes at the moment for my brother. Unfortunately, my Pop didn't pass on his recipe that often resulted in minor explosions under my father bedroom as a kid. I recall a fantastic flavour, though.