Advice on ginger beer

[James Flynn]

Hi all, first thanks to the people who got this site up and running. I've been meaning to join something like this forum for a while now and found RealBeer this morning. Any way I'm hell keen to try my hand at brewing some ginger beer. In particular a carbonated non alcoholic brew using natural ingredients and not from a kit. So I'd really appreciate some advice on where to start maybe a good book, links to good posts etc anything really that I can sink my teeth into. I've done a search on here and found a few recipes but some of the terminology was a bit over my head. Thanks in advance for any info and I look forward to contributing in some way to your community.


Ohh and also who's a moderator around here?,don't how I missed it when signing up but not really keen on having my real name as my screen name.Is there a way to change it? Might just have to sign up again.....

[denimglen]

'nzbrewer' is the admin here, PM him and I'm sure he'll be able to help you out.

But for the ginger beer - I'm not sure.

IIRC, you need a mix of ginger and sugar, probably boil it up and add some yeast. The yeast will ferment and create a small amount of alcohol and carbonation. Bottle it, let it sit for a few days until it's carbonated and refrigerate. Refrigeration is necessary to stop the yeast fermenting which in turns stops them making a lot of alcohol and carbonation - which can lead to exploding bottles.

If you don't want to go the route of yeast giving you minute amounts of alcohol and the possibility of explosive bottles you would need to either buy a keg setup if you're doing large amounts (around 20L) or make a syrup and use it with a soda stream.

Hope that helps a little.

[MrC]

A few guys on here have had a crack at ginger beer. Check out the Ginger Beer thread

[James P]

No idea about ginger beer, however go to your settings and change the full name to be your username. :)