Odds and Sods

Ginger Beer

To make 1 gallon

600g + 8 tsp Sugar
8 tsp Ground ginger
2 lemons

Put the ginger beer plant in a jar and add two teaspoons of both sugar and ground ginger and make up to about half the jar with cold water. Put the jar in a warm place and on each of the next six days, add one teaspoon each of ginger and sugar, stirring after each addition. On the seventh day, strain the mixture through a muslin and squeeze out.

Distribute the liquid evenly into plastic pop bottles and distribute the juice from the lemons. Add the sugar previously dissolved in two pints of boiling water and top up the bottles with cold tap water to about an inch from the top.

If the bottles are stored in a warm place the ginger beer will be ready to drink in 7-10 days. If stored in a cool place, it may take 2-3 weeks before a good head develops.

The bottles should be checked periodically to see how well the pressure is building.

Before drinking the ginger beer should be chilled as much as possible as it tends to be very lively - I tend to open them in the bathroom over the bath just in case - you have been warned !

The solid material strained off should be divided in two and one used to restart the process. If the plant is thrown away use any brewers yeast, sugar and two teaspoons of ground ginger to get it started.

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