Ginger kids

So today was the day that i finished off making the ginger beer. Its a simple enough process sonce you have your ginger bug going.

For some reason my ginger bug didnt really get bubbly so its possible that not enough yeast survived to make it bubbly or it may have been that leaving the jar open caused too much of the co2 to escape. In either case it doesnt matter. Either i will end up with ginger beer or sugary ginger favoured water.

To make the beer i simply boiled some water with grated ginger with 1.5 cups of sugar for 15 minutes. I then let it cool to room temperature before straining the ginger out and squeezing in 2 lemons and adding the ginger bug.

Once that is all done all i had to do was top up the water to 4L and bottle it. I am currently trying to stay away from plastic bottles so i decided to put it straight into glass bottles. The problem with glass bottles is that they can xplode if too much pressure builds up so i have to remember to release some of the pressure every week or so. Hopefully i will still get some bubbles in the beer.

One thing that i did differently this time is that i actualoy measured the specific gravity of the beer before bottling. By comparing this measure to another measure after the ferment i will be able to calculate the amount of alcohol in the beer. Todays measure was 1.36.

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