Yep! I keep at least two kits going, one nonalcoholic and one alcoholic, a kit in reserve.Fair enough, seems like a large quantity. Standard yeast nutrient is used at 1g/5L so around 4 or 5 grams for a brew. 70g and 20g seems like a lot. But hey, there you go. Do you have the kit?
Hi BM I seen that product in my local Coles as well after I had brought my fresh ingredients. Maharajahs Choice brand I think it was at $4.90 1 kg. Go for it and give it a try. Its good value as I used $40 of fresh ginger in an all grain with ginger brew I put down a few weeks ago. Burnt out the wifes blender mincing up the ginger and galagal as well! I tried to stay away from additives and preservetives but whats in that jar is no worse than whats in the comercial GB's. I also added galagal, chilli and lemon grass to my brew. Had a taste a week ago and it is very bitter, needs more lemon zing and sweetness. I will have another taste today to see how it has progressed.Hi Guys, I've been working on a recipe for Ginger Beer that uses ginger from a jar (I know, I know). Its just so much more cost effective as Coles sells it in 1KG jars for $5. If anyone has any ideas on recipe improvements or wants to give it a brew I'd love to hear it.
Hi Guys,
Just to chuck my 2 cents in where it probably doesn't belong.
I've been working on a recipe for Ginger Beer that uses ginger from a jar (I know, I know). Its just so much more cost effective as Coles sells it in 1KG jars for $5. If anyone has any ideas on recipe improvements or wants to give it a brew I'd love to hear it.
For a 20 liter batch @ 2.5% ABV:
- 2kg ginger paste
- 1.25kg Light DME
- 0.25kg Brown Sugar (1kg for 3.8% ABV)
- 2 Red Chillis (blended). Omit if not a lover of heat or "Ginger Bite"
- 2 Lemons. Juice only
- 3 Black Teabags steeped in 1 litre hot water
- Safale S-04 yeast
- Yeast nutrient
Ferment @ 18 deg so you only get a bit of the "Ale' flavour from the yeast.
I've added the DME and the teabags to try and give it a little body and depth of flavour, the lemons to give the ginger a bit of a freshness lift.
Is this first go ? or what were previous results ?Hi Guys,
Just to chuck my 2 cents in where it probably doesn't belong.
I've been working on a recipe for Ginger Beer that uses ginger from a jar (I know, I know). Its just so much more cost effective as Coles sells it in 1KG jars for $5. If anyone has any ideas on recipe improvements or wants to give it a brew I'd love to hear it.
For a 20 liter batch @ 2.5% ABV:
- 2kg ginger paste
- 1.25kg Light DME
- 0.25kg Brown Sugar (1kg for 3.8% ABV)
- 2 Red Chillis (blended). Omit if not a lover of heat or "Ginger Bite"
- 2 Lemons. Juice only
- 3 Black Teabags steeped in 1 litre hot water
- Safale S-04 yeast
- Yeast nutrient
Ferment @ 18 deg so you only get a bit of the "Ale' flavour from the yeast.
I've added the DME and the teabags to try and give it a little body and depth of flavour, the lemons to give the ginger a bit of a freshness lift.
Hey Mick. Your brew sounds interesting, can't say i've heard of anything quite like it before. Sounds kinda like a Thai Curry flavour?Hi BM I seen that product in my local Coles as well after I had brought my fresh ingredients. Maharajahs Choice brand I think it was at $4.90 1 kg. Go for it and give it a try. Its good value as I used $40 of fresh ginger in an all grain with ginger brew I put down a few weeks ago. Burnt out the wifes blender mincing up the ginger and galagal as well! I tried to stay away from additives and preservetives but whats in that jar is no worse than whats in the comercial GB's. I also added galagal, chilli and lemon grass to my brew. Had a taste a week ago and it is very bitter, needs more lemon zing and sweetness. I will have another taste today to see how it has progressed.
Yes my experiment was inspired by my love of thai food. The galangal and lemon grass additions were to add citris/pine notes. Had a taste today. The ginger hit is there, but no citris/pine notes and way too bitter with a burn. Maybe to much galangal and chilli. Added some fresh lemon juice today so will have another taste tomorrow. Next stage will be to back sweeten it with honey or palm sugar.Hey Mick. Your brew sounds interesting, can't say i've heard of anything quite like it before. Sounds kinda like a Thai Curry flavour?
I've dabbled with adding citric acid powder to brew to give it that zing, played havoc with the yest though. I've had great results using EC-1118 yeast to get the dry zing flavour
I've been working on a recipe for Ginger Beer that uses ginger from a jar (I know, I know). Its just so much more cost effective as Coles sells it in 1KG jars for $5. If anyone has any ideas on recipe improvements or wants to give it a brew I'd love to hear it.
got a bottle today, 1kg for $4.90.Vegan certified!
I read the ingredients on the Coles Ginger Paste, from memory the additives were Safflower Oil, Citric Acid 330 and Xanthan Gum 415. All good there, as I said there is worse in some of the commercial GB's. I will give it a try in my next experimental GB. It was a hassle to mince the fresh ingredients and my current brew may not be salvageable to make it drinkable.
got a bottle today, 1kg for $4.90.
94% ginger, so unless i hear bad reports, it will go the next powderkeg (if my current and first attempt goes ok)
if we do get bad reports, i will have enough ginger for curries for a long long long time.
there wasn't any boiling as such, although i did have the fresh ginger in boiling water for a few minutes to clean it.Whats the plan with the ginger, drain the liquid and boil it with the other ingredients ?
Well I had planned on just chucking everything in together and letting it go. You gotta keep the ginger juice, needs the flavor.Whats the plan with the ginger, drain the liquid and boil it with the other ingredients ?
there wasn't any boiling as such, although i did have the fresh ginger in boiling water for a few minutes to clean it.
(i think i've read somewhere that ginger has some natural yeast on it's skin)
TBH i was just going to throw it all in, bits an all.
the 500gm of fresh ginger i used in the current brew wasn't peeled, just chopped finely and macerated with sherry, whiskey and cinzano as per recipe.
if it's 94% ginger, then there is just 6gm in total of sunflower oil, water, citric acid, salt & Xanthan Gum.
on the other hand, i know there's a difference in taste when i use fresh ginger as opposed to bottled ginger when i cook.
btw i tested the SG of the powderkeg yesterday after 12 days of slowly chugging along, it was at 1.011.
but i accidentally on purpose squirted a sample around my taste buds, very nice indeed.
there wasn't any boiling as such, although i did have the fresh ginger in boiling water for a few minutes to clean it.
(i think i've read somewhere that ginger has some natural yeast on it's skin)
$4.90 is the cost of a 1 kg jar of ginger paste from coles (maharajah brand, made in india)$4.90 a Kilo ?
I'm guessing it's from China and probably fertilised the same way their Garlic is ?
If so, there might be a bit more than 'natural yeast' in there
India !$4.90 is the cost of a 1 kg jar of ginger paste from coles (maharajah brand, made in india)
what can go wrong?
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