Coopers Ginger Beer

[mobydick]

Last night in the supermarket I noticed kits of Coopers Ginger Beer. Has anyone tried it, and was it any good? I tried a 'search' - but came up with nothing. Is it new?

[wambesi]

No not new, been out for a while.
From what I have read most people have added real ginger and stuff to it to get it to taste good though.

I'm now using plants myself, I dont think I will ever try another GB kit after the latest plant based GB I did up - just hope I can get the next one as good!

[corks]

care to post the recipie, or is did you already post it in a thread of its own? i suspect you may have.

[wambesi]

care to post the recipie, or is did you already post it in a thread of its own? i suspect you may have.

Sure, mine is based upon wildschweins thread here my variation is actually here on aussiehomebrewer but I'll post it here also.

As I said follow his thread for all the ins and outs and my variations were:

The plant was done exactly how he said except I switched between dry ground and fresh grated ginger, also 1 tsp of raw and 1 tsp of LDME.
The actual "beer" was 2 large oranges 1 "normal" size lemon, and 900g of ginger all juiced with a juicer and 1 kg dex made to 6L then the plant strained in. Probably will add another litre of water next time as it seems a little thicker than stuff I normally drink.

Kept the plant going and will be bottling another batch shortly.

Very nice drink, but after the three days or so to carb up must stick em in cold storage or they will keep carbonating and gush when opening.

Cheers