Ingredients
\n3 large pieces of ginger (about a kilo)
\n1 cinnamon stick
\n10 cloves
\n500g light crystal malt
\n1kg dextrose
\nRehydrated wine yeast<\/p>\n
Method
\nRun the ginger through a food processor then put every thing in a pot with five litres of water and boil with the lid on for an hour. After the boil, add 10 litres of cool boiled water and pitch yeast when it is at the right temp. I left all the ingredients in the fermenter until I racked it into the second one (probably 3 days). I primed the whole thing for bottling by racking a second time and adding the correct amount of dextrose.<\/p>\n
I ended up with nineteen bottles of excellent ginger wine \/ beer. I don’t know what the alcohol content was but it kicked arse! The cloves probably had something to do with that. I used cloves in a stout for the first time about four years ago and I overdid it. Two bottles and I didn’t want to get off my chair. For hours. Cloves are a natural local anaesthetic, you can use it for tooth ache and stuff like that apparently. Well, it has more of a “general” effect when taken internally, in conjunction with alcohol at least.<\/p>\n
Cheers,<\/p>\n
Oliver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ingredients 3 large pieces of ginger (about a kilo) 1 cinnamon stick 10 cloves 500g light crystal malt 1kg dextrose Rehydrated wine yeast Method Run the ginger through a food processor then put every thing in a pot with five … Continue reading