How do you make ginger beer?!
How do you make ginger beer?
Answers:
here's what I used to make a delicious ginger beverage:
2 litre bottle of still mineral water
large chunk of root ginger (you need 1? to 2 tablespoons of grated ginger)
1 lemon
1 cup of sugar
? teaspoon of dried yeast
You'll also need a grater to grate the ginger, and a plastic funnel. I didn't have a funnel, but you really need one. Trust me on this.
1) Lay all your ingredients out to make sure you haven't forgotten anything.
2) Decant the water into a suitable temporary container (skip this step if you are using tap water)
3) Using a plastic funnel, pour the sugar into the bottle. (if you don't have a funnel fashion one out of paper like me)
4) Add the dried yeast to the bottle.
5) Now, grate the ginger until you have between 1? and 2 tablespoon's worth. I used 2 tablespoons because I really like ginger, but feel free to vary this according to your tastes. Also, you may wish to cut the skin off before grating. I'm lazy so I left it all on.
6) Next, extract the juice from one lemon.
7) Mix the grated ginger and lemon juice together in a cup or other suitable piece of crockery.
8) Next you need to add the ginger/lemon mixture to the bottle. This is where a plastic funnel comes in really handy. for some reason paper funnels don't work so well once wet.
9) Now, you need to add the water to the bottle. Fill it up until it is about ? full, then put the cap on and shake the bottle until all the sugar is dissolved.
10) You then need to top the bottle up until there is approximately a one inch gap at the top. This gap is to prevent explosions once the yeast gets to work.
11) Put the cap on the bottle as tightly as you can, then place the bottle somewhere warm. I put mine in my airing cupboard. You'll need to leave it for 24-48hours to let the yeast go to work. Once the bottle is very hard, and can't be squeezed, the ginger beer is done. It took 24 hours for my batch to be ready.
12) Place the bottle in the fridge overnight. This halts the yeast and stops the bottle exploding. You really don't want to leave that bottle in a warm place for any longer than 48 hours.
13) Once the ginger beer is chilled, pour it into a glass and enjoy. I sieve mine when pouring so I don't have any lumps of ginger in the drink.
And there you have it. 2 litres of delicious ginger beer
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selitze water fresh ground ginger root suger \\\ 1 teaspoon of ginger to 3 cup,s of selitzer pluse 1 half teaspoon of unrifined suger do not bottle can be very bubbler and or will emplode if not bottled right
Kimmers's answer is not bad.