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ReposadoXochipilli
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yea i have a few episodes left but i have been stretching them out, love that show.
yes it mixes well with anything really but i have a soft spot for a gin mule
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musiclover420
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I couldn't hold myself back, I cracked out until I had watched em all 
Now I am taking a break to re watch them all sometime soonish.
Mhmm, gin mule sounds pretty bomb.
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musiclover420
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Here is another update:
 This is after being bottled for 3 days.
The one on the left is a molasses hybrid I added berries to and actually tastes much better than the simpler one with just cane sugar and a bit of juice.
The berry one is already pretty carbonated and very tasty, they both are not too sweet. Though I will let them go another day or two at least.
Hopefully they get more carbonated and a bit less sweet by then, I am very impressed though and will definitely be making much more.
I would highly recommend trying it as it is simple and not very time consuming and very worth it.
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musiclover420
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I have such a healthy buzz going from drinking just two little partially filled small glasses 
Following it up with a kombucha now since I want to let it sit a bit longer and start more batches before I drink much.
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musiclover420
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Here is a pic showing how fizzy the berry one is:

It has foamed up pretty intensely twice now today, I will probably move it to the fridge tomorrow morning or late tonight to slow/stop the carbonating.
Will be definitely adding berries to many of the future batches I make so tasty. I will try starting the ferment with berries too.
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musiclover420
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I have been burping em all day, they are ALIVEEEEEEEEEEE.
Even the open jars are getting pretty bubbly.
-------------------- Don't worry about me, I've got all that I need. And I'm singing my song to the sky You know how it feels, With the breeze of the sun in your eyes. Not minding that time's passing by I've got all and more, My smile, just as before. Is all that I carry with me I talk to myself, I need nobody else. I'm lost and I'm mine, yes I'm free
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nicechrisman
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I didn't know you used a culture to make ginger beer. Is it like water keffir kinda then?
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musiclover420
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My mom used to make water kiefer but I have o idea how it is done really Tastes like liquid healthy natural candy though.
This is my first attempt at ginger beer, I am sure a similiar non pro biotic could be made. Like ginger ale sodas.
I was at a chinese restaurant the other day and ordered a "ginger ale" expecting something dank and got a canned soda I drank a little and regretted it.
Threw up later, though that was a combination of things. The soda did not help though. This ginger ale would have
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nicechrisman
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Yeah commercially produced "ginger ales" don't even really have anything in common with a real ginger brew
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musiclover420
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I wish I had known the difference when I was younger...
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rubberlizard
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Quote:
Mr.GuessWork said: Brewing is a lot like growing mushies, except it's way easier and the aseptic technique that's required is laughable in comparison.
Agree. When brewing always think i should turn on hepa filter and sanitize the room first 
Even though one of the recipes says you cant use honey, it have worked fine for me and every other mead brewer. But i do think ginger ale is too sharp tasting when brewed with pure honey. A spoon full is great though.
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CosmicFool
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I've brewed root beer but most root beers now a days are made using extracts for flavoring I'd like to use actual roots and herbs if I could find some maybe I'll start off by doing some birch beer instead
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musiclover420
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I would like to try some root beer eventually as well, the stuff I am making now I try to balance at barely sweet so I get mostly probiotic ginger goodness 
Some batches are sweeter like soda and some are more sour like wine, I try to balance it at relatively neutral though.
Here is my culture today:

I combined the two I kept into one big ass jar it has been sitting on my counter for months being fed nothing but sugar and ginger...
Here are 2/3 of my most recent batches:

These literally got fizzy in one day... Hours after I closed them after making them I opened em and they both fizzed up majorly. Hours later 
I let them go one more day and both are champagne fizzy now, that pic doesn't do em justice as I had just popped em and moved em to the fridge where the culture mellows out/ goes dormant. Both would have erupted like volcanoes if I had let em I can't believe they can get so fizzy just a few days to even hours after being poured... So awesome, thanks nature!
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