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Dear Dave (Airgead)

Wow what a site Ibrew is. It looks really great and only 50mins away from where I live, I can go an have a look one day on my day off from work.

Thank you very much for letting me know about this website and brew shop.

Regards
Leanne
 
Earlier this morning, Leanne inadvertantly posted the following by using the "report this post link"
Dear RichLum where can I purchase a Country Ginger Beer Brew Kit.

Thank you for your tip.

Regards
Leanne

The "report this post" is at the bottom of every post to the board. You use it to report a post to the moderating team when a post contains inappropriate material such as porn, offensive language etc.

To send a private message to a contributor, use the "pm" link, which allows you to send a personal message to a contributor. Usually, people send a personal message rather than an email. When you send a pm, the ahb site notifies the reciever that there is a message waiting on the board to be read. It is netiquette, not to ask for, or give out personal email details. There are many stories of people whose email details have been abused.

In answer to your question, Country Brewer Ginger beer packs are available from the Country Brewer stores, link to webpage.

Back to the ginger beer discussion, the overall flavour is a balance of ginger flavour, carbonation, alcohol, body and sweetness. The sweetness cannot come from regular sucrose or dextrose, as these will be consumed by the yeast leaving no residual sweetness. So the end result is dry, unless you use an artificial sweetner, which then leads to other unusual flavours.

This applies to all fermented beverages. The sweetness in standard beer comes from long chain malt sugars that the yeast cannot convert. This leaves a malty sweetness in a beer.
 
Thanks Pint of Lager for clearing that up for me about the Report of Post. I am sorry if I inconvenienced anyone at AHB for my not knowing about this section of the forum board.

Thank you Pint of Lager for your answers with regard to the Country Home Brew Kit for Ginger Beer and also for explaining to me about the sugars etc.

I am learning more each day about home brewing from you guys and one day I will have it down pat.

Regards
Leanne
 
Leanne Deerain said:
I am telling you this so you can tell me what this Austro Vino Kit tastes like. Will I get close to Strongbow? How does it differ in taste to all the other ciders?

How much is it?

Regards
Leanne
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From memory it was about $35 for a kit plus postage. I bought 4 of them last time which is about a years supply. They leep in the fridge till you use them. It is an expensive kit but its worth it.

As for strongbow... I personally think its much better than strongbow. It actually tastes of apples. The only commercial cider that comes close to it in taste is the imported scrumpy jack. The strongbow and mercury ciders you get all over the place are sweet fizzy water by comparison.

It does ferment out quite dry though so if you like the sweet strongbow you may need to do some mucking around and re-sweetening at the end or use something (like sorbate) to stop fermentation early.

Cheers
Dave
 
Dear Dave (Airgead)

Thank you again for telling me the cost of the Austro Vino Kit and what it tastes like. I think I will purchase one of these in the future. I will have to experiment though with sweetners to get the taste I like.

Many thanks again.

Regards
Leanne
 
Leanne Deerain said:
Dear Dave (Airgead)

Thank you again for telling me the cost of the Austro Vino Kit and what it tastes like. I think I will purchase one of these in the future. I will have to experiment though with sweetners to get the taste I like.

Many thanks again.

Regards
Leanne
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Leanne. look in the winemaking section of your brew shop for Potasium Sorbate. It can be used to kill the yeast and stop fermentation before it finishes. taste every day and chuck it in when it is at the sweetness you like. You would end up with a still cider as there would be no yeast to carbonate but there are plenty of ideas on here for ways to force carbonate.

Cheers
Dave
 
Whattaya reckon some honey added in would taste like?
And how much to a ginger beer?
 
500g of light honey in a morgans/coopers kit with 500g of the sugar mix of your choice is really nice it balances out quite nicely
 
Blackrock apple cider with 6 grated red apples and brew blend #15 (light malt dextrose and corn syrup) turned out bloody great.
 

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