dastardly77

I found that my ginger beer was quite watery and lacking in flavor to be honest. I've since been advised to use grated ginger rather than the powdered ginger to give it more kick. I bought a coopers lager kit which I'm drinking right now and turned out perfectly nice, I recommend them. I'm wanting to go back to the ginger beer though and I've bought a coopers ginger beer kit for 11 quid. Should produce around 33 pints which is good value.

Cheers for the advice, I will let it sit for a couple of weeks before checking it again, or if the barrel explodes!

I kind of assumed it would have calmed down after 4 weeks in the barrel but I have been keeping plastic bottles as well. Incidentally, how long does it take for the pressure to start building? That's one day now and its flat and lifeless. I'm guessing it takes time?

Unsure why that link mentioned using jars with a lid but I would remove it and use a thin cloth just to keep out any foreign objects. After a week the jar has a really sweet alcoholic aroma to it, will be interesting to see what percentage the finished product will be.

The barrel has some sort of valve at the top that I guess will release the pressure when it gets too much. Cost 30 quid delivered from ebay. For bottles I've been tanning loads of budweisers and keeping the empties. Bought bottle caps again from ebay which are only a couple of quid per 100. Also bought a hydrometer to measure the alcohol content once its ready. Apart from the initial outlay of.the barrel and a few ingredients its really an inexpensive exercise. Just a waiting game now I suppose.

I'm around one week ahead of you. The first couple of days nothing much was happening in the jar so i removed the lid and covered it with a cloth instead. From then on you could see the chemical process taking place. Gave it an extra couple of days to make up for the first couple of days in the air tight jar. I bought a 5 gallon barrel instead of messing around with plastic bottles and have just strained the contents of the jar into the barrel to leave for 4 weeks. I'm not sure how solid the 'solid' part of the contents should be but mine's was more a brown paste and no where near what I would consider solid. Unsure if its okay or something to do with the first few days of nothing happening. Will give an update in a months time.

I've bought some on eBay so will hopefully get started in a few days time. Am I right that you squeeze the air out the bottles and screw the lid whilst the bottle is still misshaping and the build up of co2 pushes the bottle back into shape? I love science, especially when it gets me blootered.

Nice one, I've been getting into those ginger grouses recently so will give this a go. What yeast do you recommend?

and you can be sure The Sun or Daily Record have already been in contact to offer her family 2 paid holidays a year to Peru in exchange for exclusive rights to updates and her story on release. I cant recall the percentage of sentence that has to be served in a foreign jail before eligible for transfer but I think its around two thirds. Wonder if her solicitor doubles up as her agent.

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I looked it up, apparently about 80 years ago Indonesia was the worlds biggest exporter of cocaine. you would imagine thats some good shit so I reckon (on no evidence whatsover) that the quality would be similar. or was lindsays haul already watered down with baby talc?

I looked it up, apparently about 80 years ago Indonesia was the worlds biggest exporter of cocaine. you would imagine thats some good shit so I reckon (on no evidence whatsover) that the quality would be similar. or was lindsays haul already watered down with baby talc?

was reading about the appeal of granny Lindsay Sandiford, another innocent drug mule who was caught in Indonesia with 4.8Kg of cocaine worth a street value of 1.5 million. http://www.metro.co.uk/2013/01/22/british-woman-lindsay-sandiford-sentenced-to-death-in-indonesia-over-drug-smuggling-3360987/ got me thinking, what streets are they referring to? The Peru two were caught with 11Kg at a street value of 1.5 million! How does that work then? Is it a quality issue or is the international smuggling of cocaine subject to world trade economics? or something

In a desperate attempt to cloud witness statements in the forthcoming trial? Those Irish lawyers are good.

I reckon 'support' in these cases is just a welfare check. Nothing more.