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Step 8First bottle
Update 3rd May 2009 - 2.5 days after primary fermentation started
As I mentioned before I wanted to make two bottles on this brew - I needed to really double the size of the Ginger Beer Plant (GBP) because I've got quite a few people who want some.
So this morning (about half an hour ago) I bottled up my first bottle and tested the gravity.
The starting gravity was 1.62 and the current gravity is 1.50 which gives me a 1.51% vol brew.
Not bad for something that's only two/three days old.
And I tell you now, it's tasty. Oh yes is it tasty...
The current batch isn't horrendously gingery, it's actually very palatable and still very sweet as the GBP still hasn't taken hold. But during my filtering of the batch I noticed the very first few bits of GBP, translucent white in colour (nothing like the brown stuff I held in my hand at the start of the experiment) sticking to the filter.
The size of the grains was about 1mm - quite small but much bigger than normal yeast. I expect the stuff at the bottom of the barrel to be much bigger.
I will be adding more images and following the final bottle of the brew (the stuff I'm trying to make quite, quite alcoholic) in this instructable, but watch for the next one which will explain the cultivation of ginger beer plant so you can grow lots of the stuff and give it to all your friends.
The important part is not to fill the bottle completely, leave a couple of inches at the top empty. Squeeze the bottle so the ginger beer comes right up to the rim of the bottle then put on the lid. As the mixture continues to ferment on your worktop it will gradually fill with CO2 and pop the bottle out. When the bottle is hard open the bottle and let the pressure out (carefully...) then either stick it in the fridge or alternatively repeat the squeezing and leaving if you want a drier ginger beer. Best way is to keep testing it to make sure it's drinkable.
More pictures to follow.
As I mentioned before I wanted to make two bottles on this brew - I needed to really double the size of the Ginger Beer Plant (GBP) because I've got quite a few people who want some.
So this morning (about half an hour ago) I bottled up my first bottle and tested the gravity.
The starting gravity was 1.62 and the current gravity is 1.50 which gives me a 1.51% vol brew.
Not bad for something that's only two/three days old.
And I tell you now, it's tasty. Oh yes is it tasty...
The current batch isn't horrendously gingery, it's actually very palatable and still very sweet as the GBP still hasn't taken hold. But during my filtering of the batch I noticed the very first few bits of GBP, translucent white in colour (nothing like the brown stuff I held in my hand at the start of the experiment) sticking to the filter.
The size of the grains was about 1mm - quite small but much bigger than normal yeast. I expect the stuff at the bottom of the barrel to be much bigger.
I will be adding more images and following the final bottle of the brew (the stuff I'm trying to make quite, quite alcoholic) in this instructable, but watch for the next one which will explain the cultivation of ginger beer plant so you can grow lots of the stuff and give it to all your friends.
The important part is not to fill the bottle completely, leave a couple of inches at the top empty. Squeeze the bottle so the ginger beer comes right up to the rim of the bottle then put on the lid. As the mixture continues to ferment on your worktop it will gradually fill with CO2 and pop the bottle out. When the bottle is hard open the bottle and let the pressure out (carefully...) then either stick it in the fridge or alternatively repeat the squeezing and leaving if you want a drier ginger beer. Best way is to keep testing it to make sure it's drinkable.
More pictures to follow.
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Feb 22, 2011. 1:51 PMsaramc
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I was wondering if you, OR ANYONE WHO HAS RECEIVED A PART OF YOUR GINGER BEER PLANT, would kindly send me a starter? I will kindly share the plant. I will gladly pay shipping expense, etc. Please contact me saramc at aol dot com (PS did you know if you use the standard email address format someone@contactme.com, a spambot may recognize the format and add your email address to their distribution list?) Anyway, would seriously appreciate a traditional GBP starter. Thanks!
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