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ginger beer to spirit
Bryan wrote:
All true, but I expect that there are plenty of folks out there who don't even want to see the word beer today, Hey, man, I would have told you to leave that stuff alone and stick with the veuve cliquot. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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"Dick Adams" wrote in message ... Since Ginger is a spice rather than a sugar, the following is probably correct: For 35 liters of water: Sugar SG ABV ----- ----- _____ 5 kg 1.075 10.12 6 kg 1.090 11.97 7 kg 1.105 12.78 8 kg 1.120 15.54 9 kg 1.136 17.36 I think you will struggle to find a yeast that will ferment to 17.36, most die at around 15 or less. This is why wine tends to be 14-15% AFAIK |
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On 1-12-2011 09:20, dennis@home wrote:
I think you will struggle to find a yeast that will ferment to 17.36, most die at around 15 or less. This is why wine tends to be 14-15% AFAIK Looking at the Wyeast website, most ale yeasts can handle about 10% max. Wine yeasts tend to handle 14-17%. |
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dennis@home wrote:
"Dick Adams" wrote in message Since Ginger is a spice rather than a sugar, the following is probably correct: For 35 liters of water: Sugar SG ABV ----- ----- _____ 5 kg 1.075 10.12 6 kg 1.090 11.97 7 kg 1.105 12.78 8 kg 1.120 15.54 9 kg 1.136 17.36 I think you will struggle to find a yeast that will ferment to 17.36, most die at around 15 or less. This is why wine tends to be 14-15% AFAIK The turboyeasts used for some spirits production will ferment considerably higher, BUT at the expense of having a lot of off-tastes. Since these are mostly heavier molecules that come out in the distillation tails, that's not a problem, although it would be a serious problem if you use them for something that wasn't distilled. If you are making non-distilled beverages, in most cases you make sure the original sugar content is sufficiently high that, after the yeast dies off, you have as much sugar as you want in it. You use the yeast attenuation to set the proof. If you are looking to make a super-dry beverage, though, you will want the sugar to run out before the yeast does, and so you use the sugar content to set the proof. Champagne is a special case of the latter; the sugar runs out, then you add a little more sugar (dosage) to ferment in-bottle. For brut champagnes you add only enough dosage to make it fizzy while still not killing off the yeast. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Scott wrote:
I think you will struggle to find a yeast that will ferment to 17.36, most die at around 15 or less. This is why wine tends to be 14-15% AFAIK Looking at the Wyeast website, most ale yeasts can handle about 10% max. Wine yeasts tend to handle 14-17%. While I ahgree it can be hard to punch up above ~13-14% with most beer/wine yeasts, I'd not put a hard limit of 10% on any beer yeast. I've fermented more than a few batches of beer and mead using beer yeast and had no trouble getting above 10%. Mostly using British, Belgian, and American labeled strains. -- Joel Plutchak "I don't like beer. I tried it once and thought it was terrible." - Overheard at a restaurant |
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On Dec 22 2010, 12:07*pm, Adam Funk wrote:
On 2010-12-21, Phil L wrote: john robinson wrote: Does anyone have any information about making a simple *distilling* apparatus that they can share? *My friend is thinking of trying to distil some ginger beer. I've heard that _The Alaskan Bootlegger's Bible_ is good. Go to your local home brewing store - I went past mine today and had a look in, they had a sign in the window which read 'distill your own spirits' and underneath this sign was a stainless steel contraption, but I was in the car and didn't really have time to investigate further, but i doubt it is illegal as they had lots of these things in boxes in the window, and part of the name was 'still' - it's obviously intended for distilling and must be legal - this shop's on the main road through the town centre. I think they're sold for purifying water. *Similarly, I've seen signs in shop windows that say "These products are sold for tobacco use only." * ;-) And the home-brewing kit exported to Saudi Arabia. It came with lots of recipes for what you can do with a tin of malt extract. One of the recipes was "Hop flavoured vinegar". One bullet point in the recipe was "at this point you have beer, but it would be illegal to drink it. You must allow it to go sour ..." |
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Martin wrote on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:06:20 -0800 (PST):
On Dec 22 2010, 12:07 pm, Adam Funk wrote: On 2010-12-21, Phil L wrote: john robinson wrote: Does anyone have any information about making a simple *distilling* apparatus that they can share? My friend is thinking of trying to distil some ginger beer. I've heard that _The Alaskan Bootlegger's Bible_ is good. Go to your local home brewing store - I went past mine today and had a look in, they had a sign in the window which read 'distill your own spirits' and underneath this sign was a stainless steel contraption, but I was in the car and didn't really have time to investigate further, but i doubt it is illegal as they had lots of these things in boxes in the window, and part of the name was 'still' - it's obviously intended for distilling and must be legal - this shop's on the main road through the town centre. I think they're sold for purifying water. Similarly, I've seen signs in shop windows that say "These products are sold for tobacco use only." ;-) A bit like the bottles of unpasteurized apple juice (cider) sold in Prohibition times with the warning, "Keep closed to prevent fermentation". Incidentally, even now, a little fermentation improves the taste of apple juice a lot. -- James Silverton Potomac, Maryland Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not |
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In message , Joel
writes Scott wrote: I think you will struggle to find a yeast that will ferment to 17.36, most die at around 15 or less. This is why wine tends to be 14-15% AFAIK Looking at the Wyeast website, most ale yeasts can handle about 10% max. Wine yeasts tend to handle 14-17%. While I ahgree it can be hard to punch up above ~13-14% with most beer/wine yeasts, I'd not put a hard limit of 10% on any beer yeast. I've fermented more than a few batches of beer and mead using beer yeast and had no trouble getting above 10%. Mostly using British, Belgian, and American labeled strains. Rochefort and Chimay both produce live beers at 10% or more IIRC -- geoff |
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On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:36:23 +0000, geoff wrote:
In message , Joel writes Scott wrote: I think you will struggle to find a yeast that will ferment to 17.36, most die at around 15 or less. This is why wine tends to be 14-15% AFAIK Looking at the Wyeast website, most ale yeasts can handle about 10% max. Wine yeasts tend to handle 14-17%. While I ahgree it can be hard to punch up above ~13-14% with most beer/wine yeasts, I'd not put a hard limit of 10% on any beer yeast. I've fermented more than a few batches of beer and mead using beer yeast and had no trouble getting above 10%. Mostly using British, Belgian, and American labeled strains. Rochefort and Chimay both produce live beers at 10% or more IIRC Chimay gives me a bad headache... :-) It's very nice though. -- Frank Erskine |
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In message , Frank Erskine
writes On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:36:23 +0000, geoff wrote: In message , Joel writes Scott wrote: I think you will struggle to find a yeast that will ferment to 17.36, most die at around 15 or less. This is why wine tends to be 14-15% AFAIK Looking at the Wyeast website, most ale yeasts can handle about 10% max. Wine yeasts tend to handle 14-17%. While I ahgree it can be hard to punch up above ~13-14% with most beer/wine yeasts, I'd not put a hard limit of 10% on any beer yeast. I've fermented more than a few batches of beer and mead using beer yeast and had no trouble getting above 10%. Mostly using British, Belgian, and American labeled strains. Rochefort and Chimay both produce live beers at 10% or more IIRC Chimay gives me a bad headache... :-) Yeah, 20 bottles and that's me knackered the next day It's very nice though. I'm on the wine tonight - stop tempting me -- geoff |
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On Jan 12, 7:14*am, "James Silverton"
wrote: *Martin *wrote *on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:06:20 -0800 (PST): On Dec 22 2010, 12:07 pm, Adam Funk wrote: On 2010-12-21, Phil L wrote: john robinson wrote: Does anyone have any information about making a simple *distilling* apparatus that they can share? *My friend is thinking of trying to distil some ginger beer. I've heard that _The Alaskan Bootlegger's Bible_ is good. Go to your local home brewing store - I went past mine today and had a look in, they had a sign in the window which read 'distill your own spirits' and underneath this sign was a stainless steel contraption, but I was in the car and didn't really have time to investigate further, but i doubt it is illegal as they had lots of these things in boxes in the window, and part of the name was 'still' - it's obviously intended for distilling and must be legal - this shop's on the main road through the town centre. I think they're sold for purifying water. *Similarly, I've seen signs in shop windows that say "These products are sold for tobacco use only." * ;-) A bit like the bottles of unpasteurized apple juice (cider) sold in Prohibition times with the warning, "Keep closed to prevent fermentation". Incidentally, even now, a little fermentation improves the taste of apple juice a lot. Fresh apple cider I buy at the farmers markets inflates their plastic jugs after a week or so -- a very pleasing beverage. |
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