Lemonade and GB recipes..................suggestions?

[Tadge]

Gday Guys,

Just putting down a lemonade and a GB.

Lemonade recipe:

1.2L of lemon juce, freshly squeezed.......my arms ache.
200ml of Grape fruit juice
100ml of ginger juice
2.5kg of dex
1kg of lactose
7g Yeast nutrient
7g Safale yeast

Should I add 0.5kg of LDME? for some body?
Or any other suggestions?

GB recipe

200ml ginger beer booster
0.5kg light malt
1.5kg dex
1kg lactose.............(maybe 1.5kg for sweetness)
100ml ginger juice
5g Yeast nutrient
7g Safale yest

Any additions or deletions?

Ill be putting these down this afternoon.

Thanks in advance

Tadge

[drsmurto]

mmmmmm, ginger juice. WTF?

Is that pureed ginger? Or ginger cordial. How do you juice ginger?

I have used 250g of lactose in a GB before (23L) and still quite dry but reckon that 1kg may be a tad too sweet.

Man i'm confused.

[Tadge]

I used a mates electric juicer, put in about 700g of peeled ginger and out came about 200ml of juice. Smelt fantastic. Did the grape fruit the same way..............................shoulda done the lemons like that too

I made a few changes to the GB, put in 750g of lactose and 1.7kg of dex. Might be a bit strong but hopfully the lactose will give it a bit of body.

I'll let you know in a few weeks.

Tadge

[drsmurto]

Well thats one way of getting ginger flavour. I put ginger thru a blender, skin and all and boiled it for an hour then strained into fermenter. Has an almighty ginger bite to it, like bundy GB but without the sweetness. I boiled up the lemons too, chopped up, pith and all. My GB has a great carb level, no head and smells/tastes fantastic. Nice and dry too using the champagne yeast. Might have to give the lemonade idea a go.

[Chris]

Juicing ginger! I'll have to give that a go.

[DavidP]

I juice my ginger too! seems to work well!
although last time I juiced ginger I threw in the pulp anyway..just to make sure I didn't miss out on any ginger flavour!

[Tadge]

DavidP, I left the pulp out, I did not want any extra cr@p or sediment in it. Even tho I plan to rack to secondary. Even with all the fermantables in it, it is only slowly bubbling away. Its gunna be a while before I bottle I think.

Tadge

[DavidP]

Tadge..sorry! I should have been more clear!
I juiced it and then threw the juice and the pulp into the pot to boil with my sugars and other spices. I didn't put the pulp in the fermenter. probably wouldn't be any better than using a food processor....although you never know..the flavours might come out better when it's pulp rather than chips.