Recent content by johnnyrains

Thanks, bembel, and nice one supersleeves. I've been trying to make good ginger beer for a couple of years. I recently gave up on it because I could never get the right sweetness, if any at all. I had a couple of near disasters with massively distended plastic bottles at an alarming PSI...

I brewed a batch of your recipe a couple of days ago, and pitched my GBP. Not terrible vigorous in the way of fermenting way, like with an ale yeast (for example). Is this normal? Johnny Rains

Thanks for keeping this up, Rambunctious. I am very interested to see how it comes out. Can you tell me, is there a "yeasty" taste to it? All the brews I have made with brewers yeast impart a pretty strong yeast flavour, which doesn't taste as clean as I would like it. Thanks

So my GBP is totally coming along. A lot of things I have read leave you with needing to halve it and share. How do you do this with your 5 gal brew? Just looking ahead. I freakin' love ginger beer! Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

What kind of alcohol do you get with the plant? I am thinking of going this way. After several batches, I either get lots of alcohol and no sweetness, or too much sweetness resulting in gushers. Back sweetening is a challenge with stevia for example. Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

I am pretty new to all this. I am in the process of making my second batch of GB. First one is revolting at the moment. Kind of a sour taste and smell. I am wondering about campden tablets to stop the fermentation, but concerned that that will kill any yeast to carbonate In bottles. Or...