You EFers should make some Ginger Beer, so we can talk about it.

I'll attach my favourite recipe.

It takes about 2 weeks, 1 week in a cup, and then 1 week bottled. Although this time of year I sit mine next to the radiator to keep it warm; maybe a few days more quiet time in the bottle is necessary.

Once it's bottled keep it inside a plastic tub, and with a towel on top in case your bottles explode. My brother uses 2L coke bottles - he squeezes them every day to see if they're hard. When hard they go into the fridge to slow (stop?) the fermentation. I've been using those resealable beer bottles (0.5L) none of them has broken yet, but a 0.75L "Pelforth Brune" bottle blew out it's bottom (very cleanly actually, looked like it was sliced off).

Since it's a fermentation process, there is at least some alcohol in the final drink. I've only just received my hydrometer, so am yet to determine the amount. Although we always made this stuff as kids, so I wouldn't expect it to be much ... *shrug*

Maybe someone with elite brewing skills can enlighten me.

So ... get those "plants" going. The whole process will take you about one hour over 2 weeks - and 45 minutes of that is putting it in the bottles.

Looking forward to some brewing chatter!

cheers,
(Mr)Wibble

Attached Files

NewGingerBeer.pdf (68.3 KB, 94 views)