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As I understand it, the difference between white, light brown, and dark brown sugar all comes down to how much molasses is left in vs refined out of the sugar. I tried making my recipe with dark brown sugar and it actually somewhat overwhelmed the ginger flavor with molasses flavor - fine if...

Primary fermentation is in a gallon jug with a bubbler-airlock on it. As for how long? That has been varying per batch. When I would only do the primary fermentation for a week or two, the secondary ferment in the bottle was very active and would lead to dramatic eruptions when opened by...

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I'm also brewing ginger beer by similar recipes to the above, and I have bottled it into 6 750ml "growler" bottles, leaving a fair amount of air at the top of each bottle - total ginger/sugar/yeast mix was about 4 liters, so each bottle has about 670ml in it...