Honey Ginger Beer

[Pale_Ale]

Put down a GB today for xmas...

Coopers GB kit (all I could dig up)
750g dextrose
500g ldme
400g Honey
400g fresh ginger
1 tbsp dutch cinnamon
2 lemons juiced and zested
Thomas Cooper yeast

18L volume

Also chucked a yeast sachet in the boil for nutrience.

Finger crossed, hopefully it will turn out well!

[Chris]

I did a quite similar one to that a while back with the difference of 500g honey and 2kg raw sugar. That worked very well. Yours should come out very well too. That recipe sounds pretty good.

[Chris]

PA, how is that brew going? Has it been a fast or slow ferment? I've been finding my honey brews have a tendancy to race through recently.

[Pale_Ale]

Lots of activity at the moment and still going strong. Got off to a pretty quick start with the boiled yeast surfacing early, making the krausen somewhat different-looking.

I suspect I may be able to bottle it this weekend but might wait until the one after.

[Chris]

Sounds good. Let us know the outcome.

[pixelboy]

Looks very interesting, I might try it.

I would of thought boiling the yeast would kill it ?

[Kevnlis]

Looks very interesting, I might try it.

I would of thought boiling the yeast would kill it ?

It definately kills it, but the skeletons are good food for the yeast you want in there. Add the nutrient yeast about 10 min before the end of the boil for best results. This is what I used to do with all the kit yeast I got, fed it to the nice liquid

[pixelboy]

ahhh now I understand.

Kit Yest in the boil and the Thomas Cooper yeast does the sugar -> booze business..

[Pale_Ale]

Just tried first tasting of this - it's not too bad but will need another few weeks to carb up a bit bit and staiblise a bit (by that I mean beer tends to change so quickly in the first few weeks after bottling it can't be assessed properly).

The ginger quantity is just right IMO with a great aftertaste. The initial flavour is a bit sweet for my liking - but overall by christmas it will be a nice drop I think.

The next gb will be the same but with the following changes:
sub the Coopers with a decent gb kit
double the cinnamon
use EC-118

[corks]

a bit of cinnamon goes a long way

i've got a kilo of ginger root in the fridge ageing, bout time it went in the brewpot i reckon. maybe i'll buy some more and put little cubes in the bottles...hmm.