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Ginger Ale on Steroids
Specialty Beer • Extract • 5 gal
A great ginger ale and an even better mead!
April 9, 2007 pm 02:36pm
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Ingredients (Extract, 5 gal)
- 10 lbs
Honey
Honey
Imparts sweet and dry taste. For honey and brown ales. Also: specialty ales.
- 2.5 lbs
Molasses
Molasses
Imparts strong sweet flavor. Use in stouts and porters.
- 1.25 lb
grated ginger root - (omitted from calculations)
grated ginger root
- 12 lb
limes - (omitted from calculations)
limes
-
White Labs WLP007 Dry English Ale
White Labs WLP007 Dry English Ale
Clean, highly flocculant, and highly attenuative yeast. This yeast is similar to WLP002 in flavor profile, but is 10% more attenuative. This eliminates the residual sweetness, and makes the yeast well suited for high gravity ales. It is also reaches termi
Notes
It's not actually 12 POUNDS of limes. It just 12 limes. You can choose to ferment this recipe or drink as just a really good ginger ale. Unfermented it's delicious. If you're going to ferment it to make a mead: 1. Boil with honey and molasses for 15 mins 2. Add Ginger and boil for another 5 mins 3. Add lime juice and remove from heat 4. Strain into fermenter and pitch yeast If you're making ginger ale: 1. Add everything into the pot and bring to boil 2. Boil for 5 mins 3. Strain into 2 liter bottles 4. Add 1/4 tsp of baker's yeast to each bottle 5. Screw caps on bottles tightly 6. Store at room temperate for 3 days 7. Refrigerate for 1 day and it's ready to drink
Style (BJCP)
Category: 23 - Specialty Beer
Subcategory: A - Specialty Beer
| Range for this Style | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Original Gravity: | 1.082 | 1.026 - 1.120 |  |
| Terminal Gravity: | 1.016 | 0.995 - 1.035 | |
| Color: | 18.9 SRM | 1 - 50 | |
| Alcohol: | 8.7% ABV | 2.5% - 14.5% | |
| Bitterness: | 0.0 IBU | 0 - 100 | |
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