I'm wondering that too- my local grocer only has a few hands at any given time and today I went to get some for this and out of 5 hands, three were mushy and kind of gross, so the two I got only came out to about .5 lbs total.

If I make the beer then I'm out of ginger!

Sadly, I don't know of any good farmer's markets or anything here that carry ginger, so that I have to get at chain grocery stores.

Edit- HiD- I hope you don't mind, but I reposted your recipe in my journal. I gave you credit and everything, I just thought my J buddies might like it.