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Turns out what you have made is referred to as Cyser an apple honey wine. This will take quite some time to clear and flavor will be better after at least 6 mos. Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Well another two weeks has passed I pulled a sample and tested S.G. today it is at 1.050 has not moved much but is moving. Flavor is very good and crisp. Dry hopping fresh ginger into the secondary has added a little more tongue bite. Est. A.B.V. ~3.3%. I guess I will just let it keep going for...

Some where earlier in this thread it was mentioned that they were going to try to form into balls and dry the remains of their rice wine lees into yeast balls. Can anyone comment as to weather this works and is worth the effort? Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Make sure to aerate for a couple of days at first pitch if it is in a bucket fermenter will sound like a fresh poured seven up. Mine has slowed significantly from racking with recheck gravity this coming weekend and rack into bottling bucket if any makes it to bottles from there who knows i have...

3.5-4lbs ginger? Wow that is a lot of ginger. My recipe may use up to 1lb at most. Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

No yeasty taste at all. Sweet, sharp like a ginger ale. Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Today I racked the above Ginger beer into secondary and added 3oz chopped skinned fresh ginger. I have heard uncooked it will impart more of a hot ginger flavor. Hydrometer reading of 1.056 if my math is correct it is at ~2.7% A.B.V. tastes pretty good. Will let it go for a couple more weeks and...

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Drop in a cinnamon stick for a couple mos. Come cool Oct. weather sip it like a fine brandy. Yum. Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

My though is you have an air leak scrap using the plastic wrap sanitize the bottles and caps of the screw top bottles soak the caps in warm sanitizer while bottling they will seal. I reuse 16oz pop bottles for this all the time. Have never used the same bottles more than twice. They are...

Fill your airlock with cheap vodka and nothing lives there period. Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

I make organic wines. I like to cultivate and use wild yeast just for the reason I am cheap and the Home brew store is an hr. away. Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

I usually do not worry about it as I have been able to produce one at will so many times. Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Well I brewed a new batch today following previously listed recipe. O.G. was a match at 1.076. I plan to stir twice daily for the first week then let it go for two more. After that I will rack off the fruits and will dry hop so to speak with another 2 oz chopped ginger that has not been boiled...

Well I added a fist full of torn squished raisins and racked into another fermenter allowing some yeast to pass through and also some aireation hope this works. I also washed the yeast and will see if I can build a starter with it. Now brewing up some ginger beer. Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

It tastes good just like slightly alcoholic cranberry juice. Just a thought would a fist full of raisins torn in half suffice as energizer/nutrient? Do not really want to change the flavor by using grape juice and trip to the home brew store would be out a couple of weeks. Sent from my iPad...

HELP!!! Ferment stuck? Checked and sampled today S.G. 1.070 it has cleared and yeast cake on the bottom is quite thick. Air lock activity 1 bubble every 2-3 min started this batch 11/24/13 Note: ferment temp only 68deg f days, 64deg f nights . It is kind of cold here in Wisconsin. Sent...

I have had from 4%-8% as I am still tweeking recipe. My current recipe is as follows. 4oz fresh organic Ginger root. "Used to produce G.B.P." 10 tsp granulated sugar. "Used to produce G.B.P." .75 qt mineral or filtered unclorinated tap water."Used to produce G.B.P." CULTIVATING A GBP Using...

My ginger beer plant I use for fermentation. Here is a video of what a living Ginger beer plant looks like. http://youtu.be/-7UN8i4qsKk Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Here is a video of what a living Ginger beer plant looks like. http://youtu.be/-7UN8i4qsKk Sent from my iPad using Home Brew