highland_dave
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Just wanted to say hello! I am new to all this homebrewing malarkie, so I thaught I should introduce myself.
I have made a few kit alchopops and lagers before, but wanted to start making real home brews. I am currently making some WOW (questions about that in a sec) and a ginger beer.
Now, I am a total newbie, so im sure what im doing is probably totaly wrong, but here goes - for my ginger beer, I have made a concentrate from 600g of grated ginger, 3 lemons, 1 lime and 600g sugar then made it upto 5 litres wich is currently fermenting like a lava lamp. What I intend to do is kill the yeast off after fermentation and add 5 litres of lemonade and bottle it up. Im hoping that this will make something good that wont explode? I dunno for sure.
My WOW looks as it should according to the guide on here (but I did use white grape, pear and apple juice rather than just white grape juice as its all the Tesco's had) , but I do have 1 question - It has been fementing now for 2.5 weeks. At first it was very fast and furious, but now it has settled. For the last week and a half, it had bubbled once every 30 seconds rather than stopping? is this normal. I know the guide says to be patient, but 2.5 weeks is a long time, no? when should i move to the second stage?
Cheers for now, and please be gentle! I am a noob.
Dave
I have made a few kit alchopops and lagers before, but wanted to start making real home brews. I am currently making some WOW (questions about that in a sec) and a ginger beer.
Now, I am a total newbie, so im sure what im doing is probably totaly wrong, but here goes - for my ginger beer, I have made a concentrate from 600g of grated ginger, 3 lemons, 1 lime and 600g sugar then made it upto 5 litres wich is currently fermenting like a lava lamp. What I intend to do is kill the yeast off after fermentation and add 5 litres of lemonade and bottle it up. Im hoping that this will make something good that wont explode? I dunno for sure.
My WOW looks as it should according to the guide on here (but I did use white grape, pear and apple juice rather than just white grape juice as its all the Tesco's had) , but I do have 1 question - It has been fementing now for 2.5 weeks. At first it was very fast and furious, but now it has settled. For the last week and a half, it had bubbled once every 30 seconds rather than stopping? is this normal. I know the guide says to be patient, but 2.5 weeks is a long time, no? when should i move to the second stage?
Cheers for now, and please be gentle! I am a noob.
Dave
