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Ginger Ninja Beer

Cider - Schwarzbier
Kit & Kilo
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Brewer's Notes

Other Ingredients:
1 Coopers kit ginger beer
750mL bottle of Buderim Lime refresher with Ginger
500g fresh ginger
50g ginger powder
4 small chillis
5 whole cloves
1/2 tsp nutmeg
2 sticks of cinnamon
1 lemon rind and juice
1 tsp of Vanilla Escense
2L Apple juice

Method:
Peel and grate ginger
Bash the cloves in a morter and pessle
Halve chillis
Into a pot put 3L water and add the Grated ginger, Golden syrup, Chillis (seeds and all), Cloves, Nutmeg, cinnamon, lemon, vanilla and Buderim refresher.
Bring to boil for 25 min.
Strain (or not) via BIAB bag into a 2nd pot (that was mission in itself)
Add the dextrose, LDME, and Coopers kit
Bring to boil for 5min.
Into the fermenter with the apple juice and top up to 21L.
Ferment @ 19deg

OG = 1.042
FG = 1.009

In primary for 2 weeks. Bulk primed with 160g white sugar

Malt & Fermentables

% KG Fermentable
0.5 kg Brown Sugar
0.3 kg Treacle
0.27 kg Dextrose
0.25 kg Generic DME - Light

Yeast

11 g DCL Yeast US-05 - American Ale
21L Batch Size

Brew Details

  • Original Gravity 1.023 (calc)
  • Final Gravity 1.006 (calc)
  • Bitterness 0 IBU
  • Efficiency 75%
  • Alcohol 2.2%
  • Colour 18 EBC

Fermentation

  • Primary 14 days
  • Conditioning 3 days
 
Drinking now. Here's my "tasting notes" from another thread.

I took a couple of these to a mates place on Friday (handy that I bottled in 1.5L PET), and I'm mighty impressed. Even my mate who's not a big ginger beer fan was well impressed.

Good upfront ginger hit, but not over the top with a decent lingering tingle. I actually expected more bite with all the extra ginger and the chillis I put in, but I'm kind of happy that it's not over powering. Good residual sweetness, while some of that is from the artificial in the coopers tin, to my taste buds it didn't have that "Equal sweetner" kind of flavour to it which I've gotten off a straight GB K&K before.

It's also seems to have a much bigger alcohol hit that I expected. FG was 1.009, so alc% should be about 4.25% + maybe 0.5% for bottle conditioning, but it certainly seemed stronger than 4.75% after I'd had a few glasses.

In terms of what the apple juice added... I think there is a slight hint of the apple flavour in there, but only a little. You could probably bump it up to 4L apple juice if you wanted a bit more.

Overall, Very very happy.
 
Made this up today and by god, the smell of the hot wort hitting the 2L of apple juice in the fermenter had my wife drooling!
Can not WAIT for this to be fermented down and carbed up!
 
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