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Ginger Bavarian
Posted: Wednesday Jun 13, 2007 1:14 pm
by Chris
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?
Posted: Wednesday Jun 13, 2007 4:02 pm
by Pale_Ale
I think the artificial sweetner would ruin it...perhaps just get a large quantity of fresh ginger?
Posted: Wednesday Jun 13, 2007 7:49 pm
by porridgewog
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
Posted: Thursday Jun 14, 2007 9:39 am
by drsmurto
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.
Posted: Thursday Jun 14, 2007 11:59 am
by FazerPete
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.
Posted: Friday Jun 15, 2007 11:19 am
by Chris
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.