How to Brew Ginger Beer (6%) at Home 

As someone who's been brewing for the last 20 years it was a real treat to see you go through those initial stages of learning and testing and then finally the success of a deliverable product that you can proudly say "I made this". Well done.

Hey Hoocho! if you want that spice in your ginger beer to come from the Ginger, you need to dehydrate it. cooking ginger breaks decomposes the Gingerol into zingerone, which is sweeter. if you dehydrate ginger it becomes shogaols. these are alcohol soluble~ ginger beer, vodka steeped with dehydrated ginger, and lime!

"What do you want to see me make?" Careful what you wish for! Since you live in a hot climate for instance, it would be cool to see you work with kveik (the type of yeast), that thrive when fermenting at up to 42c. And kveik will throw most esters when fermented hot. Voss Kveik for instance will produce orange-y and lemon-y esters that would be perfect in a ginger beer. I'm currently fermenting an apple wine in that temperature range by using a sous-vide and water-bath around the fermenter, since I live in a cold climate. Works well! Also, Australia has loads of interesting honey varietals that would produce distinct meads. From a beer perspective, would be cool to see you make a hopped hydromel (low-alcohol mead) or a braggot (mead/beer). Great video btw. Would love to see any kind of fermentation on this channel!

Fantastic! You can brew it a lot more dry, the very low end of sugar, if you plan it as a cocktail mixer. I've made it in a much smaller batch, and sweetened it in the glass with simple and a squeeze of tangerine to compliment the belt of local whiskey.

Your excitement for the sweeter version is infectious bro! Wife and I want a fermzilla STAT now!! Job Done!

Whilst watching this I presumed you’d have at least 100s of k subs and this wound have millions of views 😂 top notch content. I’ll be sticking around for more

Top work Hoocho! This looks awesome. Let us know if you need any more yeast or brewing ingredients.

"We need to add more sugar... for science!" Needs to be merch for sure!

found this in passing and now I am staying... great project. one thing a few people suggested honey and maple syrup as alternatives to white sugar... the thing is health wise honey is no better than sugar in terms of health (it is just sugar with additional flavors.) and Maple syrup is more unsustainable than Australian sugar -because it takes so much energy to produce; I live in Vermont and make maple syrup part of the year (40L of sap =1L of syrup) and it has to be transported from either Vermont , Quebec or upstate NY in the USA, to Australia... and of course IT IS JUST sugar as well. it is 100% not healthier than brown sugar or honey... anyways your channels are awesome. thank you for the great work

I saw your ginger growing video and then moved over to watch you make the beer. Pretty awesome! During lockdown we weren't allowed to buy alcohol in South Africa and I started on my "wine/mead making" journey with different fruit juices, 25lt at a time. Mine I did get up to 12% but I would drink it with soda like a spritzer. Even made some mampoer / moonshine from it. What I actually wanted to say was, if you store that ginger beer or for 3-6 months on a shelf the flavor changes so much and it becomes clear. Save some next time and try it out.

Cool video. I'm not a pro but I watch a lot of brewing content and I make ginger beer. I would add something tannic like black tea. It really give more depth and it's suble.

Didnt realize it was Hoochos until you said! Youve got me cornered on my niche interests

Fun fact, there's still yeast in that keg, it will restart fermentation in the keg, just slowly because it's so cold, it will become more alcoholic and dryer the longer it's left in the keg... assuming it lasts long enough. If you want to actually halt the fermentation you need to add a little potassium sorbate and potassium metabisulfite to stabilise the ginger beer, the 2 ingredients are needed in cider and wine. N.B. as this stops yeast breeding further you will not be able to bottle condition using this method. I have been making cider (and beer, mead and ginger beer) for over a decade and the wife loves it, happy to share recipes/steps

Great video mate. Love experimenting and mucking around with things to get them perfect myself. Cheers

Nice presentation.. I loved the bubble!

I've been making cider from Woolies apple juice, white sugar and wine yeast. Once the liquid clears I bottle it, add a tablespoon of sugar per litre and soda stream it. it's great for making 2 litre batches of dry cider in a mini demijohn.

Great video, Hoocho! You've inspired me to make some.

Good stuff Hoocho 👏

Another Awesome Vid, very much enjoyed 👍

This is cool I feel it has earned a place on the main channel even though it's not hydroponics it would still be very welcome and probably make you way more $$

Came from the ginger harvest vid. HOLY MOLEY! Nice to meet you, homie from the future

You should do more videos like this. Very entertaining

Fire vid man

Holy Ginger, love it!!!

Hoocho’s on the hoocho!

BIG DOG!!! Love this, I brew ginger beer too, but I've never used spices. Love it. I'll be giving it a go next batch!

This is awesome 👌 im just about to embark on my own soon , going to do pretty much what you did but using 8 litres of apple jucie . Thanks for the great vid 👍

Nice 1 Mr Hoocho. The clear keg looks like a interesting product so you can watch your brew growing. Maybe the next vid could be a distillation process? Moonshine !

Ohh please do a non alcoholic ginger shot guide!

Wrap the bag around a big metal spoon or brew paddle. As you slowly spin the spoon, the bag tightens and squeezes out the liquid.

To extract flavors from the spices, it need to be roasted for a few minutes before crushing.

Very entertaining. I remember we used to make non-alcoholic ginger beer as a kid - from memory sultanas and dried ginger powder to make the must but it was delicious. You have real talent as a presenter - humble & not too show-offy & GSOH and not too Occery

Really looking forward to seeing this episode! Homebrewing is such a rabbithole. And you already make beer if I recall correctly? Will watch as soon as I am done tweaking my apricot/cloudberry mead that I am making to give to my grandma come christmas! Cheers.

putting the hooch in hoocho

My notifications are 22hrs late🤦‍♂️ This is an awesome video mate. The visual of the fermentation was next level. Everyone liked it even the two girls that like a dry wine. Did you try soda stream or couple stubbies🍺🍺

good stuff, I have managed to grow WAY too much ginger this year in the south of France. Booze keeps going up in price and so now I will buy a Fermzilla thing plus all the trinkets. Many thanks

Nice video, very thorough and thoughtful. Have you ever tried a 50/50 mix of white sugar and brown sugar? it’ll impart caramel and molasses notes that will play off the dryness of the champagne yeast EC-1118.

Go sweet!

Great vid! What did you do you with the byproducts?

Made one with lemons, fresh and powdered ginger. Fermented and served from keg (floating dip tube). And you think you're lazy 😂 Will definitely watch your growing video 👍

How about adding a small amount of tumeric and lemongrass and substitute 10% of the ginger for galangal (something else to grow). Galangal, tumeric and, to some extent, ginger have some pretty awesome potential health benefits that could help with the after effects of drinking at bit too much of the GG juice.

Would a raw honey work in place of the sugar? Just curious. Wouldnt mind seeing some mead done, pretty tasty stuff.

I might have missed it, but was anything done to stop the back sweetening from fermenting?

Wheres the videos of the growing of the ginger? Hydroponic? Super interested 👍👍👍😁

Ginger + turmeric beer. I've been having more success with growing turmeric than with ginger lately, so want to use that some more. Also, get bees, make mead. I made mead with a friend recently and waiting on maturation. btw, love the Aussie style. Feels like home. Don't Americanize your style to suit a "wider" audience.

Love Jimmy being super suss hahaha

Where you get the Marshall keg?

Hi, great video, wanna taste it :) I have sugar related question. Do you make kombucha? How much sugar do you put there? We put 100g to 3 litre bottle for fermentation and no more. It's sweet a lot. Those amounts of sugar you put in your beer seems crazy

This is awesome! Like ginger beer on steroids

you should make absinthe ;)

how did you sanitize without putting boiling water in it?

Could you make a ginger and Turmeric high-alcohol beer, please?

How do you grow your ginger?

Where do you show how to grow ginger

do you have a video showing how you grow your ginger?

Makgeolli. Make Makgeolli. Homemade Makgeolli is the bomb! I can give you pointers.

make sugar wash correctly. add ginger.

As an experienced beer brewer using Grainfather I have tried all sorts of ginger beer recipes. Personally I see many flaws in this especially on allowing oxygen into the brew but wondering why you wouldn’t put the citric and sugar into the fermentation vessel or leave some sugar in the fermentation… was there too much yeast considering fermentation with the ginger creates more yeast… hmmm

Do this but with turmeric instead

More content?

I want to make Gingerade kombucha like GT produces (or make it even better). Could you take a shot at that? You have enough ginger 🤣

This is amazing!! But i have a question for you... Will you do a video making it alcohol free. I love ginger beer but i don't drink alcohol.

17:45 Thor approves.

For what it is worth. 1 packet of yeast is enough. Ec1118 will dry that brew out and take away a lot of the residual sweetness.

How can this be done non-alcoholic?

$11 a kg in nz

Anyone have a link to that microscope?

Man, like ive always told you, sugar makes everything better haha

This should be done professionally, and an actual brand needs to be floated.. you will do really well..

15:52 for slide farts

Mead, make mead!

That one guy sounds south african at the end that wanted more carbination😂

Add raisons.

50 $ A KG its more like 2$ a kg in high demand season

How come ginger is 50$ a kg??? In Canada ist 7 to 10 CAD a KG...

ginger is how much? 1kg of ginger costs me 4 euro?

Hi Hoocho, i would really try to avoid sugar because it is so bad for the gut. How about maple syrup....

Tumeric beer!

Mango ipa please Hoocho,, The ginger beer looked very tasty mate. And you looked alot more pale by the end of this video... mmm hung over Hoocho was it??

40g in your test glass gives 160/litre, not 120g... surely I'm not the only person who picked it. Do I get a free t-shirt 😅😅

I'm just imagining being a single cell of yeast living my life on an expanding CO2 bubble

How many takes did you do. I'm certain that your ears and nose are getting redder at points as the video progresses 😬

Wonderful, love your channels. Shame we can't smell your production, must have been amazing when you were shredding the ginger 😊.

poor Jimmy, what have you done to this guy in the past. He reminds me of Carl Pilkington.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xq2uSIyYmlg.html bit like Little Fat Lamb ginger beer?

haha were you feeling the effects of alcohol lol, try rice and raisins it makes wonderful whisky type alcoholic drink ours went 44% lol

Waited too long

tbh when you slid in from audience left, i thought i was on hoochos... cognitive dissonance ensued.