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Ginger beer

  • 05-03-2011 5:40pm
    #1
    rothai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 418 ✭✭


    I'm after bottling my ginger beer but its quite cloudy and very sweet smelling, is this normal?im quite worried about exploding bottles!ive never made ginger beer before!


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  • #2
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    rothai wrote: »
    I'm after bottling my ginger beer but its quite cloudy and very sweet smelling, is this normal?im quite worried about exploding bottles!ive never made ginger beer before!

    Are you absolutely sure it has stopped fermenting?
    Use a hydrometer to make sure before you botte otherwise it could burst the bottles.
    Its normal for it to be cloudy but it should smell more of booze than sweet-smelling.
    Give it another few days in the fermenter and see what happens.


  • #3
    rothai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 418 ✭✭rothai


    I did use the hydrometer over 2days and im pretty sure it had stopped, but either way its in the lap of the gods now...cos i've bottled it already


  • #4
    Sonovagun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 391 ✭✭Sonovagun


    Is it coopers ginger beer? mine was very cloudy too. I took advice on here to leave it for two weeks after it fermented which i think was a msiatake to do as it didn't taste right. But it got better in time and all of it was drank. I will be making it again this year, but this time i shall be racking it before i bottle it!


  • #5
    rothai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 418 ✭✭rothai


    whats racking?
    It is indeed coopers. Its 2 weeks in the bottle now and no explosions so fingers crossed it'll be ok. I take the cloudyness doesnt leave it after its bottled( or if it does it settles to the bottom?)i'll give it another week and then i'll crack one open and see what it tastes like...


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