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ginger beer

Posted: Sunday Apr 24, 2005 7:42 pm
by pelican
i have been making home brew and want to make ginger beer, will taste transfer between brews from leetched smells in to fermenter

Posted: Monday Apr 25, 2005 10:12 am
by Oliver
It may. It didn't when I brewed a ginger beer, but I tasted a friend's pale ale the other day that had been brewed immediately after a ginger beer. The taste of ginger was definitely present in the pale ale.

Dogger will tell you that you won't have this problem if you brew in glass!

Oliver

Posted: Monday Apr 25, 2005 9:14 pm
by Dogger Dan
I have heard that a good cleaning will also do it (sodium met for example or tri-sodium phosphate). This is only hearsay from my side, as Oliver said, I brew in glass

Dogger