Questions tagged [ginger-beer]
The old-fashioned fizzy ginger-flavoured drink, carbonated with yeast; this comes in both alcoholic and non-alcoholic versions.
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How do I increase the quantity of Ginger Beer Plant using ingredients I would use anyway?
Very similar to this question I would like to know how to best make my Ginger Beer Plant grow. Another but related question would be what the most important factors for growth are. Water? Temperature? ...
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How to increase quantity of Ginger Beer Plant
I'm looking to increase my quantity of GBP to share with a friend. I've brewed a few batches of ginger beer, but I always end up with the same amount or slightly less GBP than I started with. What ...
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I am brewing alcoholic ginger beer. How much sugar to prime it?
I am looking for this ginger beer to be sweet, spicy and very fizzy. Something which should violate your tongue's human rights.
I have never produced a fizzy brew before so know nothing about ...
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Looking for a WARM ginger beer
recent homebrewer and even more recent SE member. Hoping for a little advice...
I've been searching and searching for a ginger beer with a strong, warm burn. I had some in Canada and have been ...
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Ginger Beer recipe, how do you finish up?
I made a two gallon batch of ginger beer, based on a recipe I found on Stack Exchange. It fermented dry, is quite tasty, but obviously still full of yeast. I plan to make a dry, fizzy, alcoholic ...
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How long can I leave my Ginger Beer (kit) in the primary?
Another fact finding question: How long can I - theoretically - leave my Ginger Beer brew in the primary (a 5 gallon glass carboy) before bottling?
The instructions suggest 8 days, hovever it's ...
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How can I filter out a large amount of loose sediment from my primary?
My current brew is a hard ginger beer, calling for a pound of grated ginger in my 3 gallon primary. Fermentation is slowing and unfortunately a lot of that ginger remains unsettled--the bottom 3" of ...
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What is the best way to stop fermentation?
I am thinking about brewing ginger beer for a bar I work at. This means it would be in a keg on a tap. I would like to ferment the ginger beer instead of pumping in CO2 but am unsure how to go about ...
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Creating the perfect ginger bug?
Can anyone suggest the best recipe for making a ginger bug?
I understand that it is just ginger root and unrefined sugar, but is it better to use organic ginger (if so why?), what is the best sugar ...
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Relation of CO2/alcohol/yeasts in Ginger Beer
The article making_ginger_beer mentions using bread yeast so you get more carbonation and less alcohol. Isn't carbonation a by-product of the process that makes alcohol? Wouldn't that mean more ...
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ReaLemon's preservatives
I'm trying a simple recipe for ginger beer (Method 1 here). Would using ReaLemon be ok instead of an actual lemon? I understand that preservatives in an apple juice can harm the yeast when making ...
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Ginger beer that lasts
I want to make a batch of alcoholic ginger beer. However, I know from past experience that one problem with ginger beer is that the bulk of the fermentation happens in the bottles, and I can't drink ...
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How long does bottle priming take? (Ginger Beer)
I've test bottled one 500ml bottle of Ginger Beer with one Coopers priming drop. How long does priming take? If I opened it in a day would it have some pressure/fizz/gas or does it need a week or so? ...
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Side-effects of 'lower than recommended' fermentation temperatures?
I have a Ginger Beer kit on the go. It's sitting in the kitchen and ambient temps are ranging from 15 to 20ºC (59-68ºF). The beer was started 3.5 days ago and I was away for the weekend, I can see ...
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Considering adding Fresh Ginger to a 'Simply Ginger Beer' kit
I'm about to start a brew using a 'Simply Ginger Beer' kit. I've heard that it's sweet, and light which is what I want, but it's not very gingery. Would it be ok to add some grated and boiled fresh ...
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