Timbothirroul
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I posted previously in another thread:
I am a big fan of Guarana Antarctica when in Brazil.
I brew bottles of non- alcoholic Ginger beer.
My goal is to produce Guarana soft drink using the basic Ginger Beer idea.
The problem is to know how much Guarana to add (there are on-line sources for it) and how much sugar.
I am thinking make about 5-10 litres at a time. Say 10-30 g of guarana seed powder. and about 250 g sugar. Use a ginger beer or wine yeast.
It will be non-alcoholic
I am a big fan of Guarana Antarctica when in Brazil.
I brew bottles of non- alcoholic Ginger beer.
My goal is to produce Guarana soft drink using the basic Ginger Beer idea.
The problem is to know how much Guarana to add (there are on-line sources for it) and how much sugar.
I am thinking make about 5-10 litres at a time. Say 10-30 g of guarana seed powder. and about 250 g sugar. Use a ginger beer or wine yeast.
It will be non-alcoholic
I was encouraged from that to start a new thread. Here it is.
I purchased 450g of Guarana powder. To get an idea I put half a teaspoon in some small bottles of Ginger Beer I was making. The problem was, and still is, that the powder sinks to the bottom of the bottle.
Yesterday I made my first trial:
11.24 Litres of water
300 g of dextrose
4g of SN9 wine yeast
100 g of Guarana powder seeped in hot water for half an hour.
I mixed the sugar, guarana 'tea' with hot water, filled it with cold water and then added the yeast.
Left sit for 3 hours then bottled with two teaspoons of dextrose in each 750ml bottle.
The guarana still sank to the bottom and partially clogged the outlet. Next time I will need a way of extracting the essence from the powder without the sediment. Maybe use muslin.
Any feedback or ideas would be more than welcome.
I will wait for three weeks before trying.
Cheers