"Dave West" wrote:


"Jim Elbrecht" wrote in message
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"Dave West" wrote:

Have recently been making a quite palatable Alcoholic ginger beer with the
following ingredients. At least other people seem to like it anyway.
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Jim thanks. Would you say that the taste of the ginger beer is very
different using the 'genuine' ginger beer plant as opposed to using just
sugar and wine yeast ?


It is a unique [and acquired, IMO] taste. Nothing at all like
any yeasty thing I've ever made - wine- beer- pop or tasted. mine
was much stronger, both in the ginger and the 'beer' department than
commercial brews I've tasted.

Oh-- and it had some serious carbonation though I never managed to
explode a plastic juice bottle, I did learn quickly to only open them
outside.g

This yahoo group is not active at all-- but the archives are worth a
run through;
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GingerBeerPlant

BTW-- I used panela in mine. It just seemed 'right'.

Jim