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I did some fairly thorough research last night, following up on your question nick, about feeding and maintenance of a GBP. As it turns out, what is very commonly referred to as a GBP, actually isn't, and the "recipes" or instructions on how to create one are highly unlikely to succeed. What is actually created, unless you're extremely fortunate, is a ginger bug. I have most likely only created a bug and not a plant.There are so many YouTube videos and online recipes that use the terms interchangeably, and they are 100% wrong. Apparently the chances of actually creating a culture containing the correct yeast and bacteria strains in a symbiotic colony from ginger is next to nil. The best chance of obtaining it is to buy it. What used to be very common was nearly wiped out due to food rationing in WWII.The more I read up about actual ginger beer, the less I feel that this is an achievable outcome in a 23 litre batch scenario. The focus for me will be shifting towards a ginger flavoured beer type drink. I will now be looking further into recipe provided by Dino from NZ who makes a very lightly malted beer with ginger adjunct in the standard beer brewing fashion. I believe this holds the greatest chance of success.I will however, still play around with ginger bug and quick ginger beer. You never know, I might get lucky and end up with a GBP scoby.
I did some fairly thorough research last night, following up on your question nick, about feeding and maintenance of a GBP. As it turns out, what is very commonly referred to as a GBP, actually isn't, and the "recipes" or instructions on how to create one are highly unlikely to succeed. What is actually created, unless you're extremely fortunate, is a ginger bug. I have most likely only created a bug and not a plant.
There are so many YouTube videos and online recipes that use the terms interchangeably, and they are 100% wrong. Apparently the chances of actually creating a culture containing the correct yeast and bacteria strains in a symbiotic colony from ginger is next to nil. The best chance of obtaining it is to buy it. What used to be very common was nearly wiped out due to food rationing in WWII.
The more I read up about actual ginger beer, the less I feel that this is an achievable outcome in a 23 litre batch scenario. The focus for me will be shifting towards a ginger flavoured beer type drink. I will now be looking further into recipe provided by Dino from NZ who makes a very lightly malted beer with ginger adjunct in the standard beer brewing fashion. I believe this holds the greatest chance of success.
I will however, still play around with ginger bug and quick ginger beer. You never know, I might get lucky and end up with a GBP scoby.
