Ginger Bavarian

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Wednesday Jun 13, 2007 1:14 pm

I looked in the back of the brew-cupboard yesterday, and found a hidden Coopers ginger, and a Bav lager. I was thinking of mixing them and seeing what happened.

Anyone tried this before?

Pale_Ale · Post by **Pale_Ale** » Wednesday Jun 13, 2007 4:02 pm

I think the artificial sweetner would ruin it...perhaps just get a large quantity of fresh ginger?

porridgewog · Post by **porridgewog** » Wednesday Jun 13, 2007 7:49 pm

Chris,

You never know until you try, but I would side with Pale_Ale. For me the artificial sweetner would put me off. A few years back I tried a commercial brew that was a lager style with ginger, quite nice for something different, I would guess that the fresh ginger would be the go.

Cheers for now
pw

drsmurto · Post by **drsmurto** » Thursday Jun 14, 2007 9:39 am

3rd that.

If you want ginger flavoured beer my suggestion is the same as PA, add 1 kg of fresh ginger to the boil when making a lager.

FazerPete · Post by **FazerPete** » Thursday Jun 14, 2007 11:59 am

If it's subtle ginger then it's actually not bad.

I accidentally did this a while ago when I did a GB and immediately did a Coopers PA in the same fermenter. The ginger flavour came out of the plastic and into the beer so it had a nice subtle ginger aftertaste.

I don't know whether you'd want to make it too gingery though.

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Friday Jun 15, 2007 11:19 am

Yeah, the sweetness ws the only thing that concerned me. I thought I may be ok as I wasn't going to add any malt- for the other kind of sweetness; and I was going to hop it pretty hard bitterness and flavour-wise.

Well, seeing no-one has tried it before, I might give it a go and report back.