Experiments in ginger beer

What wasn't mentioned yesterday about the whirlpool porter we just bottled is that it was an adaptation of this excellent porter recipe at Austin Homebrew Supplies.

Things on the list of things to do today -- our first attempt at feta cheese, and deal with all this ginger beer plant we have around.

Took a crack at the second of those early this morning, with an attempt to make some very alcoholic ginger beer.

1 ginger beer plant which has been fed for a week
+ 1 quart water, heated up and 1lb sugar added
+ juice from a lemon
all thrown in a thoroughly cleaned 1 gallon milk container
topped up with water.

Gave it a shake, took a reading, came out at 1.062. If I can stop the fermentation around 1.025 so it stays a little sweet, that should give me an alcohol by volume of just under 5%.

Or this could fail miserably.

In other news, the hefeweizen we brewed yesterday is bubbling away nicely. Glad I decided to use a blow off tube - the WL300 has really kicked off.