Recent content by Moshiach

Thanks heaps. We'll be going to the home brew store today to get some more sugar, do you recommend any, corn? dextrose? malt? some combination? And will adding these higher quality sugars instead of table sugar avoid the cidery taste? And if we wanted to just get it to 6% from the start...

At the moment it looks like it'll be ready to bottle by tomorrow or the day after, so will adding this water/sugar/ginger mix throw out the fermenting process? Plus a total of 2.5kg of sugar seems a lot, does too much sugar spoil the brew in some way? And I've read that apparantly once you've...

Hey, me and my friends have made a ginger beer, I posted earlier saying it wasn't fermenting but it ended up going normal, just took a few days. It's just about ready, we've taken the gravity test and worked it out to be about 4.11%. We used a "Beermakers" syrup and followed the instructions...

No idea what the yeast was, came with it, 5g. And it's about 22-23°C.

Well now it's been 24hrs. Is this unusual?

Was just a ginger beer cyrup out of the can, Beermakers was the brand, just basically followed the instructions, dissolve it all with the sugar, top it up to 23L, get the right temp, then just let it go. The only things we didn't do exact to the recipe was the extra 500g of sugar, and it said...

Hi, myself and a few friends have gotten into home brewing, and our first batch turned out fine, but just yesterday we made up a draught and a ginger beer, we wanted more alcohol content in them and had a few suggestions. One was to just not fill the fermenter as full, another was to put in this...