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Quick update - The recipe called for just seven days, but I sampled it a couple of days ago. It was a tad 'sharp' (read vinegary), so fastened the cap for a couple of days more. Have in front of me a nice light amber coloured liquid :) Tastes like a light sparkling wine, but no 'depth'. Willing...

The only thing this batch seems to have in common with Tepache (naturally fermented hooch from innate fruit sugars) is that it has a bit of pineapple in it. I've already squeezed out the 24hr standing ginger and pineapple mash, so no need for secondary fermenting, ie, get rid of the gunk. So...

No. That was the first time I'd tried it with Aussie mate recipe. No ginger taste. Present batch - no lime.

I've just had a tentative peek at BIG bottle and yes! We have some bubbles, no hiss, but definite bubbles, and it does smell slightly alcoholic. I say slightly, as ginger has a kind of 'alcoholic' smell to it anyway. Or it could just be me ... What happened was, this is a hybrid of the two...

Absolutely not here it's not. Baking not big with Thais (I'm on Phuket, lot of expats so lot of bakeries). If they have yeast in the local supermarket, it's usually in large packages and has sat on the shelf for a year or more. They don't throw anything out. They wait until it can crawl out by...

Thanks but most expats have the stuff smuggled in. I don't have anyone coming over for a while, so in the meantime, is there anything I can do about the present batch? Add more baker's yeast (all that's available here). Thanks.

'Prison' hooch is all that is available to expats in tropical climes. And of course the Middle East. No 'Hop Shops' here, and, laughably, I've recently found out that it is illegal to even make ANY alcoholic drink, even for your own personal consumption here in The Theatre Of The Absurd that is...

Spent all afternoon mashing up ginger and pineapple to make a beer (live in Thailand so limited ingredients here). I then added the yeast (bought the day before from local bakery, so 'live'), but when I went to loosen the cap on Big fermenting Bottle, no satisfying 'hiss', and worse, when I...

Thanks guys. So it looks like about 1kg sugar to 1kg to fruit to 1gal water then. I'm of to buy a lot of 5k of sugar - you should see the look on my local market guy's face, they're muslim and wouldn't occur to them I'm making booze:p I'll let you know how it turns out. Wine so damned...

I've some banana trees here in Thailand, too many to eat and the neighbours get sick of them. I've looked at banana beer recipes, but don't think I'm up to building a pit and wouldn't be able to either source the cereal required or drink within a week:drunk: Dearth of drinkable affordable...