How To Make Homemade Ginger Beer
 
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Use this wild fermented ginger beer recipe is a baseline, try it as written the first time and then you can alter the flavour to your own preferences. Add more or less ginger or more or less sugar. Use a lemon instead of a lime, try a different type of sugar. It really can become your own . I use plastic bottles to store the final ginger beer as the fermentation process can lead to unexpected explosions. Tip: If you buy a couple of 1 litre bottles and a 500ml bottle of filtered water to start off with then just clean and reuse them as you go.
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Recipe type: Drinks
Cuisine: English
Serves: litres
Ingredients
  • 2 litres filtered water – do not chlorinated tap water, Chlorine will kill your bug.
  • ⅓ cup ginger, grated or finely chopped. No need to peel it.
  • 1 cup sugar – I used white but you can use any type.
  • 1 lime
  • 1 cup Ginger Bug (recipe here)
Equipment
  • A large jar that can hold at least 2 litres of liquid (a couple of smaller jars will work)
  • Cheesecloth with an elastic band
  • Bottles for your ginger beer. I use plastic as it’s safer than exploding glass bottles.
Method
  1. Add the water, ginger and sugar to a saucepan with a lid and bring to the boil, with the lid on. Turn down the heat and leave to simmer for 10 mins.
  2. Leave to cool – this is important as you will kill the bug if you add it to hot liquid.
  3. Once completely cool add 1 cup of the ginger bug and the juice of 1 lime, stir to combine.
  4. Pour the mixture into the large jar/s and cover with the cloth. This needs to stand for 2 to 7 days, depending on the ambient temperature, away from direct sunlight.
  5. Stir the ginger mixture twice a day.
  6. Once you see bubbles you can bottle it up. Strain the ginger mixture and pour into your sterilised bottles. Seal the bottles tightly and leave in a warm area for a day or so. During this time the sugars are getting eaten and carbon dioxide is building up inside the bottles (this gives you the fizz).
  7. Place all your bottles of ginger beer in the fridge and this will slow down the fermentation process.
  8. Enjoy!
Recipe by Finding Feasts at https://www.findingfeasts.com.au/recipe-index/how-to-make-homemade-ginger-beer/