Ginger beer with cordial

[crafty john]

Hi all
The mother in law gave me a bottle of Belvoir ginger cordial and I was thinking that maybe it might make a ginger beer, the bottle makes 10 pints when diluted.

The ingredients are
Spring water
Glucose syrup
Sugar
Lemon juice 10%
Fresh ginger extract 8%
Concentrated ginger extract 2%

Any thoughts anyone, brew length etc.? I was thinking of using spraymalt.

Cheers guys

[dave-o]

The sugar will ferment, leaving it quite dry.

You could just add a bit straight into a pint you've already made.

[critch]

id lose the sugar as there be loads in the cordial and use more light spraymalt+1 for what dave-o says!

sounds rather interesting imo.what where you thinking of running the brewlength at, what og where you aiming at?, could always throw some crystalised ginger in too if your aiming for 20+l, or gently boil a little root and add the resultant mixture to it

[crafty john]

id lose the sugar as there be loads in the cordial and use more light spraymalt+1 for what dave-o says!

sounds rather interesting imo.what where you thinking of running the brewlength at, what og where you aiming at?, could always throw some crystalised ginger in too if your aiming for 20+l, or gently boil a little root and add the resultant mixture to it

I was aiming at 1.050 ish and a 10 litre brewlength, hoping for a nice refreshing summer drink, the problem is that there are no exact percentages on the label for the sugars.

[dave-o]

Just look at the carbohydrate %age. That will be mostly sugar.