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Well, the ginger bug is ready (gently fizzing when I poke it) and I'm trying a small amount of ginger ale (around 1L5) with a recipe I found on a french hippie website 50gr sugar 1L boiled water 5gr fresh ginger root 5gr homemade gingerbug (maybe I put way more, I dunno, I have no way of...

Will you try various dilution of bleach ? It's rarely used pure ... or is it ? :-?

Well, it's time ! FG at 1.012, I add sugar around 6gr/L (the manual says 7, the internet 5 ...) I kept a lot of bottles those days, so I have plenty ... I decided to choose one brand for the 4L batch and another for the rest, to be able to distinguish them after bottling without label...

Hum, slight typo, I meant "who" and not "how". Sounds like a 6th grade math wording : Jack is buying 18 watermelon, 5 pounds of cantaloupe and 1kg of ginger ... I wasn't thinking about ground stuffs. Definitvely easier than grating 1kg of roots :mrgreen: I'll give it a try with ground ginger...

1kg of ginger ?! Ok, I have too much on my hands, but how the hell buy a kilogram of ginger for real ? My problem is that I don't have yeast. Shipping costs are killing me, I can only find it abroad on the web and in this case, I'll pay like twice the price of the product only for shipping. I...

Hello For some reason, I ended up with a lot of ginger and no use for it. As I've been bitten by some sort of homemade brewing bug and got infected really quickly, I've thought about making a wine with ginger, and find what they call "Ginger Bug" on the Internet : apparently, you can...

After 1 week : gravity is still at 1.014. I switch FV : the liquid doesn't taste too much like yeast anymore, only flat beer. When I get at the bottom of the FV, I understand. Hello sir, I suppose you're Mister Krausen whom everyone talk about ... At least we meet. You have no idea how glad...

First brew for me : a Pils kit, 12L/20L As I didn't have 1Kg of sugar, I decided to split the difference and make 14.3L with 200gr f sugar. I assumed the thing was linear, and hope for the best Strictly followed the recipe on the user manual of the kit, add the yeast after some time in lucky...

Hello everyone I get it, we need to clean everything, all the time. I do get it, I'm used to make jam and canned food, desinfection is the key if you want good product at the end. However, I fell bad throwing that many water down the drain, 'just' to clean things. My FV are 30L, so cleaning...

For the sake of the argument : wouldn't alcool soaked fruits be clean enough to solve the sterilization problem ? Putting frozen fruit in some strong alcool until they thaw, then drop them in the FV ... that would add only a little of "external" alcool, I would think not enough to notice. But...

Thank you all for your welcomes @Tony1951 : I just looked it up, and it seems way easier than I imagined. I'll finish my current batch first, but maybe this is next :) I still need to be more comfortable with all the names, materials etc @Beechwood : As I'm simply not wired to follow a simple...

Hello everyone, After way too much time spent on comparing every offers on the internet, I just acquire a newbie brewer pack : two buckets and everything needed to make something out of those precious tin can I'll surely end up with a more advanced micro-brewery but (for once) I convinced...