What would you recommend?

[Colonel Porter]

Folks,

Looking forward to my next brews, and am looking for suggestions for kits/modifications to achieve the following;

1) Ginger Beer - fairly hot
2) Fruit wheat beer - but not too sweet - raspberry/tart
3) Suggestions to enhance a Brewmaker Northumberland Brown Ale.

Cheers

Col. P.

 

[pittsy]

hi there's a fairly easy ginger beer thats had a lot of success from people here , its on the forum , here it is
Ginger beer viewtopic.php?t=5982

Fiery Ginger Beer 5 gallons

1kg Fresh grated ginger
1tsp Cream of tartar
2 lemons
2 limes
2.5kg Sugar
2tsp Yeast nutrient
1 sachet champagne yeast Use S-04 yeast. That's the only one that worked for me

Really quick and easy (and cheap) to do - ginger was donated so very cheap

First i grated the ginger into a large pan

Then added the sliced and squeezed lemons and limes, cream of tartar and dried ginger - topped up with boiling water and simmered for 30mins (lovely smell )

Next i dissolved all the sugar in the ginger liquor and then put everything into the FV and topped up with cold water

The temp adjusted OG was 1045

Dry pitched the yeast......done

Dependant on what it ferments out to it should be between 6 and 8% ferment at 18C should see you right! But 16 to 20 ok too

 

[Colonel Porter]

Thanks Pittsy, I'll get the ingredients on my next shopping trip!

Col. P.

 

[Colonel Porter]

Pittsy,

Is that stem ginger or root ginger??

Ta.

Col. P.

 

[Cussword]

That will be root ginger :thumb: