Bulk priming ginger beer

by **Grabbie** » Thursday Sep 01, 2005 3:27 pm

Hi all,
Can anyone offer any suggestions for how much dextrose to use to bulk prime 18 litres of ginger beer?
I was thinking 180g but will that be too much for 18 litres?
Cheers,
Grabbie

by **NTRabbit** » Thursday Sep 01, 2005 4:08 pm

I recently did a magic mixer RTD (bourbon & cola) and the instructions on the can said to use 150g of dextrose for the 12 litres of rtd.

I used 300g (2x kits) and its worked fine so far with no split plastic bottles, first taste testing is this weekend.

by **Dogger Dan** » Friday Sep 02, 2005 2:43 am

1/2-3/4 cup depending on how fizzy you want it

Dogger

by **Grabbie** » Friday Sep 02, 2005 9:28 am

Thanks guys

by **Oliver** » Sunday Sep 04, 2005 1:58 pm

At 7g a litre, you'd want about 130g. A bit more if you want it fizzier. Not that I've ever bulk primed

but you'd usually use 180g for a full 23-litre brew.

Cheers,

Oliver

by **Tony** » Monday Sep 05, 2005 11:01 am

Most of (cover your ears) Non-alcoholic mix-and-bottle recipes (e.g. Morgans Ginger Beer) call for 300g sugar in 23L.

I'm slowly working my way through a a Morgan's Ginger Beer made up with 300g brown sugar, and it's at least as fizzy as commercial soft drink. I've bottled it in PET. I'm waiting for N/A lemondate to carbonate at the moment, and it also called for 300g (castor sugar, this time). Again, I've bottled in PET.

Tony

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