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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Ginger beer fermentation produces thick, white foam, becomes viscous
I’m making a batch of ginger beer from a bug. 5l water, 400g white sugar.
Within just over a day, the fermentation started foaming heavily. The foam has a consistency and taste of egg whites beaten ...
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Is it common to refrigerate after 2F with ginger beer?
I've been having luck brewing kombucha this past year and am interested in trying out ginger beer since I have been lead to believe the processes are quite similar (besides the 1 way valve for 1F). ...
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What is the ginger bug, actually?
Recipes for spontaneous (wild) ginger ale sometimes refer to the starter as the "ginger bug". What is the ginger bug? Is it just an ordinary lactobacillus; is it a type of yeast? Is it something that ...
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Cold Brew Coffee with Ginger bug fermentation
I like experimenting with different liquids aside from ginger tea and was wondering if cold brew coffee would be viable for a fermentation.
I was not sure if the acidity of the instant coffee would ...
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tips to improve my Ginger Beer
Good day mates,
Just had my very first batch of GB. I have basically followed the stove-top recipe at (http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Ginger-Ale). I forgot botton-upping it to mix it all before drinking ...
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Ginger Beer ABV from Bakers Yeast
I’ve made ginger beer a few times. I usually make it with just fresh ginger and raw honey. Usually the I get well less than 2% ABV.
This last week though I used a different honey, sourced from a farm,...
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Exploding ginger beer?
I made some homemade ginger beer using a ginger bug and bottled in a glass flip top bottle. I brought a bottle to a friend we drank half and it has now been in the fridge sealed for a month and a half....
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Why are there raisins floating in my ginger beer?
When I buy homemade ginger beer (in South Africa), there are often small black raisins floating in it, about 1cm in diameter. Why did the makers decide to put them in?
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Is there any potential risk in making beer/mead in the same way as it was done in historical recipes?
To preface, I have zero experience with homebrewing. I mainly am interested in these recipes specifically because they seem super simple and don't require any specialty equipment.
I enjoy watching ...
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Home brewing for the first time ever
I am home brewing for the first time ever. I had the following queries pls. Hope someone will answer:
I mixed 200 grams of white sugar, 100 grams of ginger, 2 complete lemons, mint leaves and 1 ...
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Wild Ginger Bug Smells Like Buttered Popcorn. Keep or Toss?
This is a two week old Ginger bug developed from organic store-bought ginger (not a SCOBY). I've kept it in a warm cabinet, not my fridge while it got established. I'm new to fermentation and brewing, ...
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Any way to deal with bitter taste from turbo yeast?
I had some turbo yeast left over, and figured I'd try make a couple litres of ginger beer (sugar, grated ginger, a little lime juice) and elderflower wine (sugar, elderflowers, lemon juice and zest) ...
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Will bigger feed give faster increase in ginger bug?
I started making my first ginger bug a week ago and it finally produced a bubble on the 7 th day!
I’m planning to brew a big batch of ginger beer in a 5 gallon carboy and I’m need 7 cups ginger bug ...
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Stuck ferment - gingerbeer - or just strange yeast?
I've just (as in 2 days ago) laid down a gingerbeer (kit build - first time) - est finished ABV should be 4.0%.
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2 x Brigalow Gingerbeer Packs
3 kg Dextrose mono
43L Sterile Water
2 packets ...
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Crabbies ginger beer clone recipe
A few years back I tried brewing my first Ginger beer hoping to get a result that would come close to the one that Crabbies makes (which I love). The result ended up very bitter and it just wasn't a ...
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