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Ginger beer - storage
Hi all,
Recently delved into the world of homemade ginger beer. Absolutely delicious and everyone loved it, came out at about 6% 
Anyway, my problem is:
I'm using the 1l clear plastic PET from this very site. There is ridiculous amounts of CO2 being produced, so much so that one bottle disformed to twice it's volume, and another had the bottom popped out. The other 2 i let the pressure out every so often.
Is there a more suitable receptacle i can brew it in until it's safe to be bottled and left without worry of explosion?
Thanks
Jon
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Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
Plastic bottles are probably a good thing to keep em in if they are over-carbonated - less chance of bottle bombs that may happen with glass.
You could just open them slightly to let excess pressure out and next time you make it ensure that fermentation has completely finished and also you could use less priming sugar.
What gravity did it ferment to and how much priming sugar did you use?
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Posted 1 year ago by Admin
Jon, sounds like you are either over priming or bottling while its still fermenting. I would let it ferment out completely with in a ferment bin then add priming sugar to control the amount of carbonation. Around 120g / 40 pints should be about right.
Posted 1 year ago by Member
I got the recipe off the internet.
500g sugar
1 lemon
60g ginger
5 tsp cream of tartar
yeast
8 pints water
boiled it up, cooled and added yeast. then you leave it in a covered bucket for 24 hours and it said bottle and leave for 3 days.
thanks for the help
didn't use any priming sugar at all.
Sorry for my...basic stuff, I just have a go and see what happens. Made some nettle beer at the same time, but it's incredibly dry, almost like nettle wine. The ginger beer also goes really dry if you don't finish the bottle after opening it.
Starting SG was 1046, and it's 994 now which is 7% by my count.
Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
Thats your problem mate its still fermenting. Normally you would want to leave it for 7-14 days in the bucket before bottling. Keep a close eye on those bottles! Lucky they are plastic!
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