Fatgodzilla
Beer Soaked Philosopher
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I just made this kit up last week after the packaging promised me a nice malty finish.
I added 500 LDM, 250 Dex, 250 Malto-Dex
Lge Tbl spoon grated ginger soaked in 50ml port strained
Kit yeast
I didn't use the artificial sweetener so to make it was drier.
When tasted at bottling, I'd have to say there is bugger all ginger flavour, after reading a few peoples recipes I'd add 500gms of fresh grated to this at least or take MHB's advice and use the Buderim Refresher. It was very dry - which I don't mind, it had a nice zing which tasted as if it came from lemons - not ginger. Strange. I'm not sure that conditioning will bring out any extra ginger flavours, previous GB's have tasted pretty much the same at bottling as they do 2 months later. The colour was not to bad, probably a bit darker than a corona. I could taste the malt as well.
Ever since I tried a GB at Dux de Lux in Christchurch, NZ I've been trying to recreate it. It looked like a lager, had a head like a lager, tasted a lot of ginger and malt. So since I've wondered if it was a ginger beer at all, maybe it was a lager of sorts with ginger through it, as opposed to a GB that had lager characteristics. I guess I was looking for that with the Brewcraft kit. Has anyone tried theDux de Lux GB and know what I mean?
Anyhow if anyone has better luck with the Brewcraft kit let us know...
matt
The big problem is we all want a different result but no one seems to find it !
Is a real home brewed ginger beer the modern day Holy Grail ???