1st go @ ginger beer

[taity]

6 small lemons
1kg ginger root
1kg sugar
boil for 30 mins
strain add jucie to fv
temp 23c after top up to 20 ltrs


bakers yeast( 3 table spoons) mixed with sugar and water for 2 hours
then added to fv
yeast nutrent 1 teaspoon full
givin a right good shake for 15 mins then
air lock on and withing 3 hours going made wif bubbles
smells luverly
will now take random samples in a few days to see when time to stop
and settle sg 1040

new to all this but use the forum for ideas and help
many thanks to all that posted there formulas : : :
ps do you think i should increase the sg

 

[Wendy1971]

Have you made it yet how did it go

 

[taity]

its almost done think maby i would add more ginger also have just added some sweetners to it next few days will till still bubbling aye abv is at 4.9% so will try again tommorow . bottles arrive monday so looks like a monday tues bottle job . i have a tester in a bottle at the mo to gass up and then cool down to see what its like very hard to tell with warm drinks i think :

 

[taity]

night before bottling a think the gb could do with some limes so added 3 squeezed and threw in the lumps and let them sit for 24 hours b4 bottling ( did taste test with ginger beer bough from shops and i can defo taste limes )

 

[periolus]

This sounds great and I am keen to try ginger beer in the future. Is baker's yeast okay? I always thought it was a golden rule to avoid baker's yeast for brew.

The addition of lime sounds yummy! Let us know how it tastes!

 

[taity]

bakers yeast worked abv only 4.9 to 5% but thats well worth the 64p for a 125gram tin