Ginger Beer

I made a nice ginger beer with the following recipe:

580gm ginger sliced thinly 4kg white sugar 4 lemons

Boil up ginger, juice of lemons and their rinds + 2 kg sugar (I used a small pot so I boiled up 2 kg and added the other 2kgs later) for an hour. Cool pot and strain contents into fermenter, mix in final 2kg sugar. Pitch an ale yeast at the right temp.

This GB came out kinda light and thin like an olde stoney ginger beer. I prefer mine with a bit more body like bundaberg ginger beer.

Next time I make ginger beer, it'll look more like this:

580gm inger crushed with my new heavy duty mortar and pestle. 2kg white sugar 1kg light dry malt 2 lemons (juiced, rinds lightly shredded)

Boil it all up in my large pot for an hour, then cool and pitch as per an ale.

I had an alchoholic ginger beer at the blue tounge brewry outside newcastle in the wine region. It didn't have any bite, but was delicious. Some of our friends thought is wasn't much good, but we loved it.

hum - i wonder if tossing some ginger in after the boil (like dry hopping) would yield a more "robust" ginger flavor?