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Brewing Beer
Thu, Mar 9 2006

Topic: Raspberry Ale

We drank the raspberry ale. It was OK, but too thick and too sweet. Next time, I will use less raspberries and more water, make a still drink out of it and then add a spoonful of sugar and yeast for a day or two to make it fizzy and see how that comes out. I had put it in a glass wine bottle with a plastic stopper in it.

Posted Charlotte O'Neil at 9:27 AM GMT
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Tue, Mar 7 2006

Topic: Raspberry Ale

I checked the raspberry ale. Seems OK. I put it outside (it's snowing out) to hopefully slow its ferentation down so it won't blow its cork. It's not as fizzy as a commercial soda. I'm going to look for some empty plastic soda bottles with screw-on lids, to use for the raspberry and ginger ale, in the hopes that it could accomodate a higher carbonation pressure in the bottle which would force more carbon dixoxide into the soda.


Ginger Ale


I made the ginger ale by putting 100 mls of sugar in a liter measuring jug, filling to the 700 millilitre measure with water, adding 3 Tablespoons of ground ginger and bringing to a boil. After it cooled, I added a spoonful of yeast sediment from one of the malt beer jars I had emptied into bottles this morning. I think 3 T of ginger may have been too much because I can smell it all over the kitchen.

(I know sugar is not measured in milliliters -- over here in Britain they weigh it, rather that putting it in a measuring jug. But that's too much trouble and the amounts involved here aren't rocket science, so I just look at them in the litre measuring jug.)


Posted Charlotte O'Neil at 9:21 AM GMT
Updated: Thu, Mar 9 2006 9:34 PM GMT
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Thu, Mar 2 2006

Topic: Raspberry Ale

The raspberry ale popped its cork. I remember now that the first 2 or 3 days of fermentation are called aerobic, which throws off a lot of gas, and then after that there is anearobic fermentation, which isn't as tumultuous. I don't know if that means that I should put the raspberry in a jar for two days, or if it's drinkable now, as is. I recapped it, but later I'll try it and decide what to do.

Posted Charlotte O'Neil at 5:18 PM GMT
Updated: Thu, Mar 9 2006 8:50 PM GMT
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Wed, Mar 1 2006

Topic: Raspberry Ale

I have made the raspberry ale. I used 150 mls of sugar. I boiled that with 300 mls of water, and then added it to the raspberry juice, which came out to 400 mls. I poured off some of the dregs from the first jar of beer I had made, and then poured the raspberry juice into the jar. Then I realized that since I only wanted the carbon dioxide in this case, and not the alcohol, there was no reason to keep it in the jar. Leaving it in the jar would just eat up the sugar and lose sweetness, which I don't want to do.

So I poured it into another clean wine bottle and stoppered it. It shouldn't take long to fizz up with that hungry, healthy beer yeast in it, so I may get to drink my raspberry ale before the beer. Of course, I now still have the empty 1-liter jar I had planned on using for the raspberry ale, so tomorrow I think I will start an oat beer with some oatmeal we bought intending to make many bowls of porridge, but forgetting that we don't really like porridge all that much. After that, if I have time, I may make a ginger ale or I may wait to see how the raspberry ale comes out.

I bottled another jar of the malt extract beer so now I have 2 empty 1-liter jars in which to make the oat beer.

Posted Charlotte O'Neil at 12:04 PM GMT
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