Best Ginger Beer Kit?

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Best Ginger Beer Kit?

Postby thisispants » Sunday Feb 19, 2006 5:29 pm

What's the best one>? The local brew shop has about 4 to choose from?

Any I should avoid?

I just want a good non alcaholic ginger beer flavour>
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Postby Chris » Sunday Feb 19, 2006 5:32 pm

The country brewer is pretty good. The coopers is a bit better. Brigalow is horrible.
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Postby thisispants » Sunday Feb 19, 2006 5:34 pm

also, how do you not make it alcaholic?

I've never made one before, i'm not sure how the whole thing works>?
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Postby Shaun » Sunday Feb 19, 2006 5:49 pm

thisispants wrote:also, how do you not make it alcaholic?

I've never made one before, i'm not sure how the whole thing works>?


Add a 1kg of fermentables and yeast and ferment like a normal beer.
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Postby thisispants » Sunday Feb 19, 2006 5:54 pm

so with a non alaholic ginger beer.....just mix it up, and bottle it straight away with some priming sugar?
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Postby velophile » Sunday Feb 19, 2006 6:03 pm

thisispants wrote:so with a non alaholic ginger beer.....just mix it up, and bottle it straight away with some priming sugar?


For non-alcoholic the Coopers kit says;

Mix with water in fermenter, pitch yeast, wait 2-3 hours, stir well, prime then bottle. Store at least 3 weeks above 18C etc

I'll be doing another Coopers kit soon but adding 1.5 - 2kg fermentables :)
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Postby dags64 » Sunday Feb 19, 2006 7:02 pm

anyone here done the Grumpy's ginger beer
I have one of theirs to put down in the very near future

I have done a couple of the Coopers ones and they have turned out very nice
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Postby Polar » Sunday Feb 19, 2006 8:19 pm

would not recommend the Coopers kit - has artificial sweetner in - terrible
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Postby Daron » Sunday Feb 19, 2006 8:29 pm

Coopers artificial sweetener is a bit of a put off... but it might go well with some scotch!
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Postby thisispants » Sunday Feb 19, 2006 9:30 pm

hmmm...artificial sweetener isn't good. Anyone know if the country brewer has it as well?
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Postby flosso » Sunday Feb 19, 2006 10:22 pm

Not sure about Country Brewer, I do know that Grumpy's have a ginger beer that doesn't use artificial sweetener - anyone have an idea how it goes?
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Re: Best Ginger Beer Kit?

Postby Chewie » Monday Feb 20, 2006 3:17 pm

thisispants wrote:What's the best one>? The local brew shop has about 4 to choose from?

Any I should avoid?

I just want a good non alcaholic ginger beer flavour>


Have only done one. It was heaps nice. A Beermakers Ginger Beer. added coopers brewing sugar (maltodextrin and sucrose) and a few hundred grams of dextrose. made a 2% alc. brew that didnt taste at all alcoholic, just a refreshing drink.

only problem was cleaning the fermenter of ginger- the stuff from the kit clung to the plastic :(
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Postby Mewshew » Monday Feb 20, 2006 3:20 pm

I've got a beermakers in the fermenter at the moment. Brewed it with 1kg of dex. I've pulled out the airlock to have quick smell and it smelled absolutely putrid. Worst rotton-egg smell I've ever experienced. I'm hoping that this is normal and not a sign of infection.
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Postby Chewie » Monday Feb 20, 2006 3:24 pm

hmmm..
i do remember mine smelt a bit weird, but i dont know if it was that bad :?
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Postby unicamrep » Thursday Feb 23, 2006 12:53 pm

Polar wrote:would not recommend the Coopers kit - has artificial sweetner in - terrible

I'd second this, I made some about a month ago non alcoholic, and it has that strange artificial taste through it.
They say pitch the yeast wait 3 hours then bottle, this is just to rehydrate the yeast. I only realised this afterwards otherwise I would've rehydrated the yeast in a glass then pitched it.
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Postby thisispants » Friday Feb 24, 2006 11:17 am

Has anyone tried Morgans>?
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Postby bkmad » Friday Feb 24, 2006 11:28 am

the morgans is exactly the same as the coopers, just a different label.

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Postby Chris » Friday Feb 24, 2006 3:21 pm

The Grumpys is good- but it's a ginger ale, not a ginger beer as such.
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Postby dags64 » Friday Feb 24, 2006 4:24 pm

Chris wrote:The Grumpys is good- but it's a ginger ale, not a ginger beer as such.


I have a Grumpy's bubbling away at the moment, does not smell as gingery as the Coopers at this early stage, smells good though
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Postby earle » Saturday Feb 25, 2006 9:35 am

Havn't tried the Coopers but I use the Morgans. It doesn't have the same artificail sweetener taste as a Brigalow I once brewed. I just use 1kg dextrose and everyone who has it likes it and wants more. Also goes well with a mates home distilled rum.
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