Home made ginger beer, a wonderful refreshing beverage.
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Ginger beer is something completely different than normal beer, it is non alcoholic, easy to make and has a wonderful tingling taste. Ginger beer may be mixed with beer (usually a British ale of some sort) to make some sort of shandy.
You can find a lot of recipes online for home made ginger beer but a quit popular recipe is the one we will give you in this article:
When you plan to make your own home made ginger beer you need the proper tools and ingredients. For our ginger beer recipe you will need eight pint (plastic) bottles or four quart (plastic) bottles, and bowls where you can make the mixture in.
Basic Ginger Beer Recipe
For this most basic home made ginger beer recipe, the required ingredients are as follows:
- 2 lemons
- 2 oz. fresh ginger
- 1 tsp. cream of tartar
- 1 oz. yeast.
- 1 lb. sugar
- 1 gallon boiling water
The preparation is easy, You need to wash the lemons and slice them in thick rings, after that the ginger root should be roughly crushed. Mix the ginger, lemon, sugar and cream of tartar in a large bowl.
Pour the boiling water over the top, stir the mixture and let it cool to lukewarm temperature. After that you need to stir in the yeast. You’ll need to leave it for 24-48 hours to let the yeast go to work. Once the plastic bottle is very hard, and can’t be squeezed, the ginger beer is done.
After this you need to skim the yeast off and strain the mixture, and your ginger beer can be bottled. You need to place the bottle in the fridge overnight. This halts the yeast and stops the bottle from exploding. Once the ginger beer is chilled, pour it into a glass and enjoy. When you just follow this simple ginger beer recipe you can’t go wrong.
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