I mean it's made by fermenting yeast and sugar ( plus Ginger of course ) and that should produce alcohol, shouldn't it ?
2006-06-29 22:26:25 · 8 answers · asked by ghost123uk 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
Seems you are all wrong !! - Tho Dee was the closest - on investigating I found, on = http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/GingerBeerPlant/message/1163 (slighly altered quote = "The Real Ginger Beer brewing mixture is a symbiotic organism made up of a lactobacillus (Lactobacillus hilgardii) and a yeast (Saccharomyces piriformis) It ferments sugar mainly to lactic acid and carbon dioxide. The L.hilgardii probably breaks down most of the alcohol that the yeast produces, so
the ginger beer is virtually alcohol-free"
2006-07-03 22:10:20 · update #1
Due to the kind of yeast now used and only letting it ferment a few days it just ferments just enough to cause carbon dioxide but not alot of alcohol.
the alcohol content when produced by the traditional, lost, process is high, about 11%, although yeasts available today, without the benefit of symbiotic bacteria, produce little alcohol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_beer
2006-06-29 22:32:25 · answer #1 · answered by Dee 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Sone sugars take longer to break down in the fermentation process, and so you'll get the carbonation and some of the sweetness, but not the alcohol. Also, most likely there's not a lot of sugary raw material in the wort to begin with.
2006-06-30 00:28:33 · answer #2 · answered by zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it takes a while to ferment yeast to produce alcoholic and ginger beer is normally made pretty quick couple days or so where as it will take a couple of year for it to rest to produce alcoholic
2006-06-29 22:32:49 · answer #3 · answered by Panzerwurst 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need the yeast to make it alchoholic, ginger beer uses ginger which ferments the same but without the alcochol
I think
2006-06-29 22:32:42 · answer #4 · answered by REAPER_ENTERPRISES 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess I live in the right country cause I can by alcoholic ginger beer lol
2006-06-29 23:43:35 · answer #5 · answered by arianasdad 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is definately alcoholic if you make it from a ginger beer plant.
2006-06-30 07:16:33 · answer #6 · answered by ftmshk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because it does not contain alcohol in sufficient percentage to warrant it to be called as an alcoholic beverage
2006-06-29 22:35:04 · answer #7 · answered by raj 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does become alcoholic if you stick a whisky in it
2006-06-30 03:26:30 · answer #8 · answered by Joanne A 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋