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Gday Guys,


Just bottled up a ginger beer kit, it tastes pretty good but I like it sweet. I have read on another post here that adding lactose at the secondary will do it.

Does Lactose hold its sweetness? Does it fully ferment?

Cheers
Tadge

Lactose is unfermentable.

And it can be added any time.

Cheers Guys, Ill try it on my next brew.

Tadge

which ginger beer kit did you use (if any)?

Gday Dragon,

I used a local brew shop blend. Its basically about 0.5kg of malt and a ginger booster (Basically GB cordial). I added another 100ml of booster and 1kg of sugars, It does not specify what sugars, but I suspect a mix of Dex and lactose. It tasted pretty good on bottling, I'll give it a few weeks to condition and see how it goes. Im chasing that Bundy GB sweetness, If you can do that.

Cheers
Tadge

Does anyone know just how much lactose to sweeten? Hard question not having tasted it but is 1kg an overkill?

And for the record the kit I used comes out at 3.5%.

Tadge

I've been told that 250gm is enough for 23litres..... but I have no experience in this regards!

i put 1kg of lactose in a home-made GB and it wasn't nearly enough for my taste.. i like the sweetness of bundy GB, but want the alcohol kick

tried a Stones' Alcoholic Ginger Beer on the weekend.. delicious!

Add lactose to taste is my advice.

My first lemonade (from lemons- not kit) I ended up adding like 3kg of the stuff, and it was still dry! A few too many lemons from memory. It aged beautifully though.

I just kept adding it, then stirring until it tasted right.

You could also add some light malt extract, which leaves residual sweetness.

But bear that in your calculations when adding lactose, as a lot of lactose + the residual sweetness of the LME might be too much.

Cheers,

Oliver