Recent content by dacaldera

Malweth - I just happened to have a chest freezer in my parent's garage, just sitting there unplugged. I took it with me to and put it straight to use. The corney keg fits right in, but the temperature overnight dropped below zero. I think I froze my keg full of ginger beer! Oops... What is the...

jinx - It tastes sweet and the ginger flavour lingers for a bit. Not dry like ginger ale, but not strong ginger beer flavor like reed's either. Have you ever tried "Ginger Ale by Bruce Cost"? If so, it tastes similar to it. I would like it to taste a little more earthy (right term?) but I...

I finally picked up all the stuff to get started force carbonation, though Not in bottles, just a keg. I bought the following: 1 ball lock cornelious keg 2 ball lock connectors Hose with a plastic tap (The guy at my LHBS hooked up the plastic hose with connectors and all that... I was hoping...

I just started a brew of ginger soda. In the pot theres 2lb of ginger, 3lbs of pineapple, 2 gallons of water, and soon to be 5 lbs of PCSugar. Anything I left out?

Duboman - i think you may be reading a little too deep into my words. "...I want to force carbonate glass bottles..." means that I would like to have carbonated beer or soda without using yeast, and i would like it packaged inside of glass bottles (not plastic bottles and not a draft keg)...

Ok, great! So far I think I will be looking into the Ball-lock soda kegs. What about the CO2 tank, is there anything special that I might need to know when purchasing one? I am looking at a new 5-pound tank that runs about $100.00. Also, one important point that I mistakenly forgot to mention...

Hi All, I am relatively new to brewing, though I have been making small bathces for the past 6 months. Well, lately I have been making sodas, in particular Ginger soda and Ginger beer with a low alc %. I have been reading up on some of the carbonation techniques that are out there including...

Sounds like great recipe! I will try it out on my next batch. The only thing, though, is that I hear adding some fresh (unboiled) ginger to the fermentation adds more of a ginger bite. I will probably do this.

Try fermenting 4 to 5 days only, and then bottling without priming. The results should be a sweet ginger beer with a mild alcohol content %. Otherwise, with a few batches I made a while back I let the ginger mixture ferment fully (took about 10 days), and the result was very dry. Also the drink...

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Hi everyone, Thanks for all of the input. It has been more than helpful and I definately need to stop until I get verification from the landlord. I have a copy of the lease in my hands right now and have reviewed it. It doesn't seem to say anything that would prevent me from homebrewing, as...

This is what I was afraid of. Looks like i've got to stop everything for a while until this is sorted out.

Propane

Hi everyone, Im hoping I can get some advise from the community on this one before I talk to a legal professional. Basically, I'm brewing beer in a warehouse space that belongs to a business that is in the ceramics industry. They have some extra space and are allowing me to brew up some beer...