If you don’t have the time or don’t want to make a ‘fresh ginger plant’ (see post) then I believe this is the next best option. Have a go and let me know what you think.
You will need the following to make the Ginger Beer.
1 sachet of brewers yeast
2lbs of sugar
1 jar of ground dried ginger
1 to 2 fresh lemons
1 sterilised jar the hold the ‘plant’
3 sterilised recycled ‘pop’ bottles
Milton sterilizing tablets or liquid to sterilise the jar and recycled plastic ‘pop’ bottles
Muslin cloth to strain the ‘plant’
Ginger Beer Plant
1 sachet of brewers yeast
2 teaspoons of sugar
2 teaspoons of dried ginger
1 clean sterilised jar with cover
cooled boiled water
Add all the ingredients into the jar and stir.
For six days add
1 teaspoon of sugar
1 teaspoon of ginger
To make the Ginger Beer
Now strain the liquid through some muslin. Reserve half the contents of the plant to start a new one and pass the other half onto a friend.
Make a sugar syrup using 1 1/2 lbs sugar and 1 pint of water
When the sugar is dissolved add 5 pints of water
Add the juice of one lemon
Add the strained liquid from the ginger beer plant in the jar
Add to the recycled ‘pop’ bottles and leave until the bottles became hard to the touch (this will vary according to the temperature the bottles are stored in), now place in the fridge or somewhere cool.
Ready to drink now.
