ginger beer

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This Homebrew Recipe was added by Dave Whitman on October 01, 1996 at 09:49:58:
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I'm in the middle of a batch of ginger beer, using a recipe which is a hodge-podge of Cat's Meow recipes
and my own warped ideas. What I'm shooting for is something with a pronounced ginger flavor and aroma,
good body, but a very light color. I think I'm going to hit all the goals except the ginger flavor, which is a
problem given that this is supposed to be a ginger beer.

Here's the fine print for a 5 gallon batch:

2 cans Munton & Fison extra light extract (for light color)
0.5 lb. maltodextrin powder (for body w/o color)
2 oz Hallertauer leaf hop (4.6% alpha)
3 oz sliced ginger root (peeled for lighter color)
4 each juice from fresh lemons
1 pkt Whitbread ale yeast

The ginger and hops were boiled in the wort for 45 minutes, then lemon juice was added along with my
immersion chiller. After an additional 10 minute boil, the batch was chilled to 65F. ph: 5.3 before lemon
juice, 4.0 afterwards. To my chagin, the resulting wort had very little ginger flavor.