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I'm making homemade ginger beer in grolsch style hinged topped bottles. I've sweetened the mixture using artificial sweeteners like Xylitol and Stevia so I don't have to worry about too much carbonation and my bottles exploding. How much sugar should I add to the bottles to make sure the soda...

I have the liter swing top champagne bottles. I made sparkling cider with them. I hope they'll be able to withstand the pressure.

Correct, I plan on using stevia or Xylitol to sweeten my sodas. I'm guessing there is a sweet spot of Specific Gravity that I am looking for in my initial mixture. If it's too high, I'll need to water it down. If it's too low, I need to add more sugar. Basically, I am trying to figure out...

There has to be a way to calculate the sugar in a mixture prior to adding any additional sugar, or at least, how much fermentable sugar is in it.

I'm interested in making my own ginger ale/beer and other experimental sodas. I have a bunch of the hinge top glass bottles that I used to make wine and mead and would like to use these to make my soda. My real questions is how do I determine how much sugar and yeast to add to the bottles so...

I have several liter glass bottles with swing tops that I want to brew Ginger Beer in using the following recipe; however, this recipe calls for so much sugar that it will cause the bottles to explode unless I refrigerate them. I had planned on using just a little bit of sugar to carbonate the...