ginger ale is usually about .5 percent NOT 5 percent.
temperature of the wort is kinda imporrtant.
champagnee yeast can go to 18 percent alcohol.
have you considered a life as a bootlegger

well, after all, Al Capone considered Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan as his second
home.
HEY they even have tours of his underground tunnel system.

ginger champagne.
If you live through it, please let me know how great it was.



<drinkitup@drinkalot.com> wrote in message
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>I am brewing a ginger beer using a campagne yeast, it's been bubbling for a
>week. How much longer should it take to get the alcohol content up to
>around 5%?
> Honestly, I don't know if i can bottle this stuff.. It's seems like it
> will explode.. heheh
>
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