Can I hop a ginger beer?

[cwiseman77]

Anyone ever hopped a ginger beer. I made a successful batch of fiery ginger beer and fancy doing it again but maybe adding some hops, either during the boil or dry hopping. Anyone ever do this, will it work?

 

[calumscott]

DON'T DO IT!!!

It's very strange... Go buy a bottle of Wychwood's Ginger Beard and take your decision from there...

 

[cwiseman77]

Just stick to the regular fiery ginger beer?

 

[calumscott]

I did mine with a mix of spraymalt and honey. Fabulous!

Just don't think hops would work...

 

[cwiseman77]

Spray malt instead of the sugar presumably. How and when did you use the honey? If its not too much bother could you PM me the recipe. Cheers

 

[calumscott]

It's on the Fiery Ginger Beer thread...

...viewtopic.php?p=229884#p229884 :thumb:

 

[cwiseman77]

Cheers Callum, think I'll give this a try. Did you add splenda after fermentation to counteract the dryness? I did on my first one and it worked well but was thinking maybe not all the honey would ferment and therefore might add some sweetness. Guess I can always taste and decide then.
Thanks again :

 

[RobWalker]

i've had ginger ale and it's good, but i wouldn't hop a ginger beer if it's dry, as supplying bitterness sounds like a bad idea...maybe aroma hops in a sweet ginger beer would work! splenda/malt and boil hops for 10 mins for flavour but no bitterness :thumb:

for ginger ale, you'd boil up malt extract and hops with a bunch of ginger :