[Closed] Ginger beer plant wanted.

What,?

A culture used to make ginger beer.

Should be able to get it from the Art of Brewing

Balls I binned one the other month, I got it from some guy that has a facebook page, was about a tenner, I also had good results fro, just usimg water, sugar and a wine yeast and feeding it daily whilst addin either ginger powder or freshly grated ginger

[url= http://www.gingerbeerplant.net/Get-GBP.php ]True Ginger Beer Plant[/url]

I'm sure MTG you know you are after this, but for those who read this thread, the above is the correct proper ginger beer culture required for true ginger beer. I've made the normal kind - ginger, yeast, sugar etc, will try the proper stuff this summer.

Yup that link is to the same guy I bought mine from

They have them at Hodge Hill farm shop between kiddi and blakedown - you're out that way aren't you?

I was looking at them for myself the other week.

Thanks monkeyp, yes, Im near kidderminster.
I remember having one when i was a kid and we ended up throwing a bit away every week as it was growing faster than we could drink it.
Thats why i thought id try to scrounge a free one off somone in the same situation before i pay for one.

When I was a lad in the West Riding of Yorkshire the ginger beer culture that was passed on from house to house was called Albert, or was it just on our street?

We called them bugs, not plants.

Attrition rate in the days before plastic bottles was horrendous- a always banned from storing and opening them in the house.

I like ginger beer. Always presumed it was mainly chemicals. I think I'm going to give this a go!

We went to Hodge Hill farm shop and had the last one off the reduced shelf, down to £2.50.
It's only yeast and ginger though, no mention of Saccharomyces florentinus and Brevibacterium vermiforme as stated on http://www.gingerbeerplant.net/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_beer

I've bought a thermometer as well now, so we're ready to give it a go.