March 13, 2022

Ginger Beer - 28 litres - Brew 11

Sun 13th March 22 started this

I have 662g of ginger

I used half portions compared to recipe

I used 200g for 10litres so 100g for 5 litres

I will brew 25 litres so need 500g ginger

650g of ginger will give me 32.5 litres. so lets go with 33 litres of ginger beer

4 lemons 70ml lime juice 70ml lemon

1 lemon is 30ml

Need equivalent of 26 lemons - 500ml

Simmer for 15mins

400g sugar for 5l for 5% brew 600g sugar for 5l for 7.5% brew

I’m going to go for 500g for 5l for probably 6.2% as it has been so good before, but going slightly lower to make more sessionable.

so 100g for 1litre of 6.2%

so need 3.25Kg of sugar

Cool to room temp and SG is: 1045ish

I only got 28 litres (as guessed the amount of water to add). Strange that SG looked about right.

Bottle

18th April and it is still fermenting! Started on the 13th of March. Wow going after 1 month.

24th April was still fermenting a bit. But after 5 weeks I’d like to bottle and am fine with a bit of extra carbonation happening.

All up I have 24 litres.

Dissolving 250g of sugar for priming. That gives us CO2 volume of 3.6. This was too much and I had exploding bottles. 2.6 CO2 would be better

Sweetener was 50g for 10l, so maybe 130g sweeter.

30th of April (6 days after bottling) I tried one, and it is good.. not quite enough carbonation yet, but drinkable! Quite strong alcohol content.

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