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Home Brewed Ginger Beer using Brewers Yeast
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 … Read entire article »
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Update on the Home Made Ginger Beer Plants
Hooray! Today bottled the first of many, I hope. I used the yeast, ginger and sugar plant which I drained and added to some sugar syrup and fresh lemon juice. Time will tell whether it worked or not. My kitchen appears to be a working laboratory for ginger beer plants all at one stage or another, and now I have four jars at various stages and with various ingredients. They are as follows: Fresh ginger and sugar – bubbling away happily having added more fresh ginger and sugar and water. It smells divine. Fresh ginger and sugar now drained of the fresh ginger and have added ground ginger and sugar, this is the second stage and the next will be to make the ginger beer. New plant started with brewers yeast, ground ginger, sugar and water. … Read entire article »
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