torilen
Well-Known Member
I had a batch of ginger beer that taste pretty good before I put it in to ferment. Turned out, when it was just about done fermenting, I found it didn't have nearly as much ginger flavor as I wanted. Instead of dumping the batch (1 gallon of ginger beer is a lot to waste, after all), I decided to try and recook it, add ginger and sugar to it, and re-ferment it.
The whole house smelled like cooked beer that night, but it was worth it. It started fermenting again, lost that weird cooked-alcohol smell, and actually is tasting pretty good now. I added about a cup and a half of simple syrup to it after 7 days, to up the alcohol (since it had lost a lot of sugar from the first fermentation).
Hopefully, I won't make that mistake again anytime soon. Man, what a chore to go through.
The whole house smelled like cooked beer that night, but it was worth it. It started fermenting again, lost that weird cooked-alcohol smell, and actually is tasting pretty good now. I added about a cup and a half of simple syrup to it after 7 days, to up the alcohol (since it had lost a lot of sugar from the first fermentation).
Hopefully, I won't make that mistake again anytime soon. Man, what a chore to go through.
