Hi all.
Going to be putting something on in a demi John later and wanted a tiny bit of advice.
How much ginger is required for a 5l brew, it's it advisable to grate and boil it and use that water?
With lemons, I was thinking three and juice, shall I make use of the rind?
Lastly, 750g of sugar. This sound ok?
Do I need to worry about tannin?
Thanks.
Ps-any other recipes to try?
using ginger root
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Pinto
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Re: using ginger root
Depends on how much you like ginger - I found that a medium sized root (70-100g) was plenty in my Chilli-ginger TC a while back. Didnt use the rind in mine tho - peeled before use, and mine was simmered in a litre of the apple juice I was using so it all went in.
Tannin is pretty important if you want a little bite in the finished brew - its not hard, just brew a large mug of black tea with 4 teabags and leave it for 20 mins to stew/cool. Id also watch the sugar - the average pure juice TC has enough sugar in it to finish in the 5% bracket, although you mention watering back so a little sugar will help.
All my TCs are pure juice ones - most apple juice cartons are watered back anyway so why add more water ? it's more convenient to dump 4 of them straight in the FV than muck about, and cheap juice can be had for about 50-60p a litre....
And as to recipes - the cider section of this forum abounds with them - search is your friend here - just look for "turbo cider"
Two starters for you
viewtopic.php?f=65&t=66468&p=698717&hil ... de#p698717
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=16049&p=536695&hil ... de#p536695
Tannin is pretty important if you want a little bite in the finished brew - its not hard, just brew a large mug of black tea with 4 teabags and leave it for 20 mins to stew/cool. Id also watch the sugar - the average pure juice TC has enough sugar in it to finish in the 5% bracket, although you mention watering back so a little sugar will help.
All my TCs are pure juice ones - most apple juice cartons are watered back anyway so why add more water ? it's more convenient to dump 4 of them straight in the FV than muck about, and cheap juice can be had for about 50-60p a litre....
And as to recipes - the cider section of this forum abounds with them - search is your friend here - just look for "turbo cider"
Two starters for you
viewtopic.php?f=65&t=66468&p=698717&hil ... de#p698717
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=16049&p=536695&hil ... de#p536695
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Thanks.
I went ahead and did the following:
225g of ginger gingerly grated.
60 ml Lennon juice
400g honey
1 cinnamon stick
Ask boiled for 30 minutes in a litre of water.
Add 500g caster sugar to demi. Add all liquid and ginger, not the cinnamon stick. Top up with 4 litre of water.
Wilko beer yeast, and yeast nutrient. Start gravity 1.046. Smelt lush.
I went ahead and did the following:
225g of ginger gingerly grated.
60 ml Lennon juice
400g honey
1 cinnamon stick
Ask boiled for 30 minutes in a litre of water.
Add 500g caster sugar to demi. Add all liquid and ginger, not the cinnamon stick. Top up with 4 litre of water.
Wilko beer yeast, and yeast nutrient. Start gravity 1.046. Smelt lush.
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Re: using ginger root
My mistake - I thought you were brewing cider 
should read more carefully....
From your description, I think you'll end up with a sort of ginger beer, probably quite subtly flavoured and spiced; be interesting to see what comes out of the DJ. Keep us posted
should read more carefully....From your description, I think you'll end up with a sort of ginger beer, probably quite subtly flavoured and spiced; be interesting to see what comes out of the DJ. Keep us posted
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Re: using ginger root
I love ginger beer. I'm going to have to look into making it "properly" (as opposed to pouring it straight from the FV -- usually a demi-john or something similar) into the glass when I want to drink it.
James
James
Re: using ginger root
I will keep you updated and post picks of the finished article!
Re: using ginger root
Bottled this. Lovely light straw colour. Lovely powerful ginger taste and smell.
Would do again and add more lemon juice!
Would do again and add more lemon juice!