Recipe ingredients and directions:
To make a ginger beer plant, and your first 16 pints of ginger beer.
Start with:
1 level tablespoonful ground ginger
1 " " granulated sugar
2 oz baker’s yeast
1 pint water
Additional plant food:
ground ginger, approx 1 oz.
granulated sugar approx 3 oz
Plus, per 16 pints of ginger beer:
juice of 6-8 lemons
2 lb granulated sugar
Water to top up
By far the best way to make ginger beer is to cultivate a ginger beer
plant. With a plant you can carry on ad infinitum!
Put the yeast into a sterile glass jar big enough to hold rather more
than a pint. Pour in the pint of water, and follow with the level
tablespoons of ginger and sugar. Cover with a clean cloth. Beginning
the next day,Feed once a day one heaped teaspoonful of ginger and
sugar. By the middle of the second week the base liquid for your
ginger beer will be ready to syphon off.
Keep the sediment if you want to make more and more, because you can
divide into two jars, and start all over again!
To turn your base liquid into 16 pints ginger beer dissolve 2 lbs
sugar in 2 pts. boiling water and add the juice of the lemons, pour
this liquid into a 2 gallon sterilised plastic bucket, add one gallon
cold water and stir well, Stir in the previously syphoned base
liquid, top up with cold water until you have 2 gallons, and stir the
whole mixture thoroughly.
The mix can now be poured into it’s final bottles, where it needs to
stand at room temperature for several hours before corking. Do not
jam the corks in too tightly. If the ginger beer turns more lively,
it is better for the corks to pop, than the bottle to burst! It is
probably best to 2"-3" headroom, and to use strong bottles!
Best of luck!
Alison
Category: Beverages & Drinks Recipes