Airgead
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I was trying to brew a ginger beer for the missus. Something with that nice ginger 'zing'. I have done gingers before but been disappointed in the amount of ginger I have managed to get onto the finished beer. This time I wasn't going to be accused of using too little. I added 250g of grated fresh ginger to the boil at 60 mins and another 200 at 5 mins (20l batch). 3 weeks later its all fermented out and what I have smells like ginger but there is no ginger taste. No 'zing'. The main taste I get is sour. Its not infected sour, Its the sour you get out of fresh ginger if you take all the flavour and heat away.
Has anyone out there done a ginger beer and got that 'zing'? After all.. it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that zing...
I am thinking of trying a tea made of dry ginger next time. Anyone else had success with that?
Cheers
Dave
P.S... In case anyone is interested the recipe was 50% Pils, 50% wheat, 10 IBU target and 15g hallertau at 5 mins for a bit of flavour and aroma. Plus the ginger mentione4d above.
I was trying to brew a ginger beer for the missus. Something with that nice ginger 'zing'. I have done gingers before but been disappointed in the amount of ginger I have managed to get onto the finished beer. This time I wasn't going to be accused of using too little. I added 250g of grated fresh ginger to the boil at 60 mins and another 200 at 5 mins (20l batch). 3 weeks later its all fermented out and what I have smells like ginger but there is no ginger taste. No 'zing'. The main taste I get is sour. Its not infected sour, Its the sour you get out of fresh ginger if you take all the flavour and heat away.
Has anyone out there done a ginger beer and got that 'zing'? After all.. it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that zing...
I am thinking of trying a tea made of dry ginger next time. Anyone else had success with that?
Cheers
Dave
P.S... In case anyone is interested the recipe was 50% Pils, 50% wheat, 10 IBU target and 15g hallertau at 5 mins for a bit of flavour and aroma. Plus the ginger mentione4d above.