Saturday 2 January 2010

GingerBeer

Just about to dive into the kitchen to start making our Home-brew of ginger-beer.
As there are thousands of recipes online all offering different advice, I'm starting with this recipe from http://www.selfsufficientish.com

Ginger-Beer

1/2 oz dried yeast
1/2 pint water
sugar
ground ginger
juice of 2 lemons


Put the yeast into a jar, add the water, 2 teaspoons sugar and 2 teaspoons ground ginger and mix well. Cover the jar with a lid or cling-film. Each day for 7 days add 1 teaspoon sugar and 1 teaspoon ground ginger. Finally, strain the mixture, add the lemon juice to the liquid and reserve the sediment. The liquid is now ready to use. For future use, keep the sediment and divide equally between 2 jars. To each jar add 1/2 pint water, 2 teaspoons sugar and 2 teaspoons ginger and proceed the process all over again, as previously.

I think that after the first stage of fomenting, the ginger-beer could be transported into a demijohn and we might be able to make some ginger wine!

3 comments:

Unknown said...

This Recipe looks better!
http://simple-green-frugal-co-op.blogspot.com/2009/03/homemade-ginger-beer.html

Unknown said...

It does require 640g of sugar!

Unknown said...

or even 384g!