Ginger beer and small pot

[RexBanner]

Eyup all.
There's a recipen on this fine forum that explains how to make ginger beer from scratch, its been going a few years i believe.
Anyways I want to make some for myself (a 40 pint batch) but I only have a stainless stock pot that can safely boil 6 litres. Buying a mash tun isn't an option sadly.
My question is, can I boil the kilo of ginger/lemons etc in the 6 litre pot and add that to my FV then fill to the required level? I plan to add the sugar and yeast at this point.

Also, while leaving to ferment should I leave the ginger etc in the FV or filter it out before adding yeast and sugars?

Cheers people.:drink:

 

[Slid]

I have never done a ginger beer, but I would think your approach should work with a 6L pot as there is no mashing required. I would ferment on the pulp, but if I did so, I would rack the liquid off the pulp ASAP after fermentation to a secondary FV. So if you don't have 2 FV's, I would not add the pulp.

Hope this makes sense!

 

[IainM]

Yeah I think that should work. When I did it I fermented on the pulp, and left it in the fv for three weeks before racking and bottling it and it came out great.

 

[braziliain]

Mine didn't come out so well, as it was very bitter.

I think the problem may have been that I added all of the lemon including the white pith. Other recipes I have seen use only the peel and the juice. I'm going to try again soon.

I actually did a no boil version a while ago which was really nice using this for the recipe:

[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Df-4Hb5GFFk[/ame]

On both occasions I fermented on the pulp.

 

[RexBanner]

Cheers for the replies people, shall go at this with a fair amount of confidance.
Brazilian, how did the 2 day recipe go? It went swimingly in tv land ofcourse.