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MadRiver

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Howdy gang!

Just had to share some fun we had in the kitchen this weekend. I love ginger ale, and I'm always disappointed with the number of brands (including some cottage brands) that use high fructose corn syrup, so I decided to take matters into my own hands. I found a recipe online (Alton Brown from the Food Network), plus a number of discussion threads at a forum for home brewers. Good Vermonter that I am, I decided to substitute maple syrup for sugar. My brew is still getting fizzy in a 2-liter bottle on the kitchen counter, but I decided to crack it open last night and sample. It wasn't quite carbonated enough, but *man* was it good, if I say so myself.

:thirsty:

Here's a link to Alton Brown's recipe:

mmmm, ginger ale.

Enjoy!

B.

P.S. I also made Chinese barbecue pork buns for the first time this weekend, and they turned out pretty darn good too!
 
AWWW, Bill... My ~other~ brew of choice is ginger ale. Never got me grand-dad's recipe and never found anything like it. Now you've gone and piqued my interest. The old guy DID use maple syrup, he most times got it from a buddy in New England someplace, once we grandkids were enlisted to haul pails of maple sap from all the trees he tapped one season. He rendered that down. Wow! And he kept the ingredients to that concoction close to th' vest. I may have to experiment!
 
& when we hear about an old geezer's house in FL blowing up, we'll know who...
 
Thanks guys! I went home for lunch yesterday and we cracked open the bottle -- it was pretty darn good! I'm going to play around with different flavors and will keep you guys posted!

I have to admit that my subconscious was clearly freaked out by having a two-liter bottle of soda fermenting on the counter -- I had a dream the other night that it exploded, covering everything in stickiness.

B.
 
Bill while your experimenting, you might want to make one of these.... it allows me to make carbonated water (seltzer) on demand very easily (under a min.). I keep a cold bottle of water in the fridge and just add the CO2 when I'm ready.
It cost under $100 to make the setup and I don't add any more plastic bottles to the landfill.
Let me know when you have some flavor receipes perfected and I can try them out!
 
Elliot:

That's really cool, and a great idea! I'd love some additional details on how much pressure, etc. you use! That looks really fantastic.
 
Bill- I use 50 - 60 lbs of pressure in the bottle. Screw on the red cap to the bottle, open the ball valve and shake, shake, shake the bottle for about 30 seconds and voila... sparkling seltzer water. Of course if you add your recipes to the water, you end up with soda.
 
Not bein' A SMEART-BUTT, but: can't help notice what a resourceful and clever bunch of folks seem to gravitate to LBC's... really!

We're genuinely ECLECTIC!! :laugh:

I LOVE IT!!!
 
DrEntropy said:
Not bein' A SMEART-BUTT, but: can't help notice what a resourceful and clever bunch of folks seem to gravitate to LBC's... really!

We're genuinely ECLECTIC!! :laugh:

I LOVE IT!!!
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Hey Doc... we gots to be smart and clever 'cause it's the only way to keep the dam LBC's running :jester:
 
And our lives intact.

Almost hate to say it, but: there are those who will survive, those who will not.

The lot I see here are a livin' minority. :smirk:
 
Those are sombering thoughts Doc. The reality is that you are correct.
I am glad you told me I was a "minority"... I'll be sure to include that on my upcoming census form when asked :yesnod:
 
Tell 'em to go pound salt.

You'll be visited by a "Malik".


:<BEFG>:
 
Tell 'em how many people live at your address & nothing more.....
 
Indeed. "Nose Count" is all they get. "Enumeration".

I had th' visit by a "Malik"... he left with "TWO!" :devilgrin:
 
That's all you have to legally tell them.
 
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