Best Ginger Beer Kit?

[thisispants]

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>

[Chris]

The country brewer is pretty good. The coopers is a bit better. Brigalow is horrible.

[thisispants]

also, how do you not make it alcaholic?

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

[Shaun]

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.

[thisispants]

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

[velophile]

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

[dags64]

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

[Polar]

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

[Daron]

Coopers artificial sweetener is a bit of a put off... but it might go well with some scotch!

[thisispants]

hmmm...artificial sweetener isn't good. Anyone know if the country brewer has it as well?

[flosso]

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?

[Chewie]

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

[Mewshew]

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.

[Chewie]

hmmm..
i do remember mine smelt a bit weird, but i dont know if it was that bad

[unicamrep]

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.

[thisispants]

Has anyone tried Morgans>?

[bkmad]

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

Cheers
BK

[Chris]

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

[dags64]

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

[earle]

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.