Ginger beer

[Patty]

G'day guys,

I've got a old crown 12 gallon copper washtub, I'm wanting to make ginger beer in it, would it be alright to brew in it, or would i need to like it.

[Peter Rundle-Curry]

Just completed primary fermentation on a ginger beer, selected a Morgans (makes 20l so just halved the ingredients) but used Y9 yeast (cos I like it..) fermented for 13 days at 12C (didn't have a hydrometer so monitored the bubble action) when bubbles stopped gave it another day. Just hope it doesn't blow!! used the standard 1 pack of sucrose will give it 4 weeks in secondary.  Also used Dextrose in the primary should be about 3.5% alcohol.

Tasted after primary and it gave me a big smile, tasted great

Note the Droid doesn't detect fermentation so I used it as a temperature controlled vessel.

Will let you know how it goes

 

Pete

[Beard Droid]

G'day Peter

Thats looks great, thanks for sharing I love ginger beer.

I'm surprised that the BeerDroid didn't detect fermentation though, if it ferments then it should detect it. was your yeast stored in the fridge?

please keep us posted on the progress of it, ?

 

[Peter Rundle-Curry]

I always store the yeast in the fridge, the brew was certainly fermenting as there was a great deal of activity throughout the 12 days, also the small taster I had after primary had a nice bite..

[Peter Rundle-Curry]

I tried the ginger beer after 4 weeks in the secondary, tasted wonderful, great flavour with that ginger bite, bubbly, smooth and about 3.5% alcohol..

[Peter Rundle-Curry]

Pic of the ginger beer (after the first mouthfull!)

[Beard Droid]

That looks and sounds incredible, Look at that head!
Thanks for keeping us posted Peter, I may need to brew one of these in time for summer