Home brew ginger beer...

[Cuphandle]

Hey, I don't really know where to start... Does anyone have any recipes or something of the sort? Cheers ~Anthony

 

[DudeistMonk]

Ginger beer as in the soda???

I dunno, probably need to take club soda and add a metric **** ton of ginger.

If your trying to make a ginger flavored malt beer you can probably find a recipe...I'd guess light malt and a liberal amount of hops if your going to compete with the taste of ginger.

Aside:

My friend actually found a copper cup in an attic intended for serving "Moscow Mules" a joint effort between Smirnoff Vodka, The Cock 'n' Bull Ginger beer manufacturer and a guy with a lot of copper cups, to sell alcoholic heartburn in a copper cup.


From Wiki

The mule was born in Manhattan but "stalled" on the West Coast for the duration. The birthplace of "Little Moscow" was in New York's Chatham Hotel. That was back in 1941 when the first carload of Jack Morgan's Cock 'n' Bull ginger beer was railing over the plains to give New Yorkers a happy surprise... Three friends were in the Chatham bar, one John A. Morgan, known as Jack, president of Cock 'n' Bull Products and owner of the Hollywood Cock 'n' Bull Restaurant; one was John G. Martin, president of G.F. Heublein Brothers Inc. of Hartford, Conn., and the third was Rudolph Kunett, president of the Pierre Smirnoff, Heublein's vodka division. As Jack Morgan tells it, "We three were quaffing a slug, nibbling an hors d'oeuvre and shoving toward inventive genius". Martin and Kunett had their minds on their vodka and wondered what would happen if a two-ounce shot joined with Morgan's ginger beer and the squeeze of a lime. Ice was ordered, limes procured, mugs ushered in and the concoction put together. Cups were raised, the men counted five and down went the first taste. It was good. It lifted the spirit to adventure. Four or five later the mixture was christened the Moscow Mule...Legend has it that the Moscow Mule was served in a copper mug as part of its marketing. John G. Martin then launched a Moscow Mule marketing campaign targeting American bars, a strategy that played a major role in shifting the liquor market from gin to vodka.

 

[WookieeForLife]

Sub'd

 

[FL Knifemaker]

Having made it before and dealing with the sticky mess........I'd rather just buy a case of good stuff they sell as a mixer at the liquor store. It's better than what I made and time is money Mixing it with dark rum is da bomb

 

[hbarcat]

I've made a few batches over the years. A couple of tips:

-Use only fresh, grated ginger root

-It's an agressive flavor so be conservative with how much you use

-It needs to age for several months longer than you would normally age the beer in order for the ginger flavor to mellow and blend

-Consider blending in other complimentary spices such as nutmeg or allspice or coriander (as in a Christmas beer).

-Ginger really only goes well with certain ales. Don't add it to lagers and don't add it to ales that have roasted or darker specialty grains such as stout or porter.




Brew a beer such as a pale ale and add about 1 level tablespoon of fresh grated ginger root to the primary. You can use a muslin bag to make it easier to remove when it's time to go into the secondary.