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Blue Flower · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 9:00 pm Post subject: Ginger Beer...

I have a serious hankering for this stuff - is it possible to buy it anywhere here? I know it won't be the same as Bundaburg Ginger Beer, which is fabulous, even if it is Australian, but i have a severe craving, as I drink bottles and bottles of it during summer. I am guessing that I will have to make my own, and I do have a recipie - but I need to find dried ginger, brewers yeast, and corks to bottle it with, as I don't want any glass grenades going off in my apartment. Does anyone know where i can get the aforementioned ingredients?

Zyzyfer · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2003 4:38 am Post subject: Re: Ginger Beer...

No, I don't, but...

peppermint · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2003 5:37 am Post subject:

Are ginger beer and ginger ale the same thing? I saw Canada Dry ginger ale at Hannam Supermarket when I was there last.

I'm sympathetic, I spent last year dreaming about the stuff then hoarding the few cans that I managed to track down.

Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Blue Flower · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2003 7:39 pm Post subject:

Well Ginger Ale and Ginger Beer are similar in that they are both made from ginger, and are non-alcoholic. But taste wise - and this is the crux - they are as similar as eating western food in a korean restaurant, and eating western food at home. Ginger Beer tastes like ginger, and is really yummy. Ginger ale i've never been fond of. only as a mixer, with brandy or something.

And for the grenades - it would only be fun, if there were some of my brats in the apartment too.

TJ · Joined: 10 Mar 2003

Blue Flower,

Maybe some of the readers might not know just how powerfull ginger beer can be.

For the benefit of the uneducated masses, even though ginger beer (usually) has no alcohol content, it's very dangerous especially when it's home brewed. If you don't get the sugar content just right it continues to 'brew' in the bottle, building up gas pressure until the bottle literally explodes.

Pieces of glass can and do travel up to 10 meters - too bad if you are in the room when that happens. Experienced ginger beer brewers do not store bottles of this potent stuff inside a house or apartment. The only safe storage area is in a garden shed or maybe a basement, well away from humans. Ideally an old bag or piece of canvas should be placed over the bottles to limit the spread of glass etc if and when bottles explode.

If you are prepared to take the risk it's a delicious and refreshing drink.

Blue Flower · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2003 9:09 pm Post subject:

Zed · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Shakedown Street

So I guess that's a no on the Ginger Beer. I can't say that I drank a lot of it but it's damn fine and a hell of a lot stronger than ginger ale (which I also like).

Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Thank god I'm back where there's a steady supply of Brio.