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I think you can taste it some in the ginger ale but you can't taste it at all in the blueberry. I bottle the sodas and let them set out for about 48 hours before I refrigerate. I use the flip top bottles and slightly open them to release pressure twice a day while they are sitting out. I'm...

We have a liquor barn in louisville ky and they have all kinds of yeast.

I've heard bread yeast leaves an after taste, I think you get used to it. My friend only uses bread yeast for root beer. I tried champagne yeast for ginger ale and blue berry soda But I Like wine yeast better, doesn't seem to be as aggressive.

I tried to take a better picture to show the clarity and color. Merry Christmas!! Shurla

Just thought I would post a of pic of my last batch of Blueberry Ginger Soda, it is the bomb! Plenty of carbonation too, I think I like the lalvin EC-1118 yeast best of the yeasts that I've used so far for soda making. Merry Christmas to al! Shurla5

I'll have to try this, bet my husband would love it. Thanks for sharing.

Nice, let me know how it turns out. My coworker told me he was sitting at home the other night and thought he sure would like to have one of my blueberry sodas. Lol.

I had a lot of complements on my blueberry soda. It sure was bubbly too! 1 1/2 gals of water, 3 cups sugar, 2 inch grated ginger, 6 cups frozen blueberries. Bring the mixture to a boil and then shut off heat, smash blueberries and then cover until cooled. Mix in 1/8 tsp yeast in abut 1 cup...

It is slowly fermenting now. Thanks

It had been about a day, thank you for responding so quickly. ~~SHuRLa~~

Put my yeast in while my mixture was too hot, do you think there is a problem if I re boil the blueberry ginger mixture and let it cool and try again? This is a soda I'm trying it make. It tasted good the first time around I just didn't wait for it to cool enough.