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There's a local brewery (Halyard) that specializes in ginger beers. I like them quite a bit, one of their brews in partiular, so I set out trying to make something similar, mostly by guesswork. My first batch just finished, and it's not bad, but doesn't quite hit the mark. I used ginger, lemon, and dark brown sugar. It tastes close to Halyard's, but it's still missing something, and my palette's not trained well enough to know what it is for sure, but I think it could be star anise. So, for my next batch I threw in a few star anise pods into the boil, as well as an oolong tea bag (just for shits). This stuff has a quick turnaround (2 weeks from start to finish) so it will be easy (and delicious) to iterate.

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