I'm interested in attempting to brew a ginger beer, but can't seem to find any decent recipes. Has anyone here managed to create something good, and would you mind sharing any recipes you have?
If you mean a malt-based home brew with ginger in it, you should get some hits. If you actually mean a carbonated ginger beverage, this post will likely get deleted. The monitors are rightly strict about keeping this forum about home brew. Did you try just Loogling "ginger ale recipe"?
Yeah, I was meaning a properly home brewed, malt based, alcoholic ginger beer/ale, as opposed to fizzy juice. Google was my first port of call, but thought I would try here as well to see what people's experiences of brewing with ginger were like, and whether they could offer any tips.
I have brewed Keith Yager's ginger lime ale that he calls Catalyst, which is sort of like a witbier with lime and ginger instead of the usual orange and coriander. It turned out pleasantly gingery and I enjoyed it. If I made it again, I might use even a tiny bit more ginger next time for some extra bite, although it had a good plenty with the recipe as-is. http://forum.northernbrewer.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=60418&p=548754&hilit=catalyst#p548754
I was thinking a wit beer base with ginger instead of coriander (keep the orange peel)....so pretty similar to what dmtaylor outlined above. A ginger saison maybe with a touch of peppercorns maybe interesting as well...
