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This recipe makes roughly 2 liters of ginger beer. I thought this would.
Make sure your water level is high enough that it will reach the top of your ginger beer level inside the bottles.
Alcoholic ginger beer recipe. Make your own alcoholic ginger beer. 500g 2 cups sugar. 150g dried ginger crushed or 300g fresh ginger sliced.
A handful of raisins if you can find the ones that still have their seeds it will aid the fermentation process peel and juice of 1 lemon. 4 litres of freshly boiled water. 10ml 2 tsp dry yeast not instant yeast.
Alcoholic ginger beer recipe for 5l 1 bring to boil and simmer for about 15 mins. 200g ginger chopped or sliced i use a food processor with a bit of water. You can use more if you want.
Skin of 2 4 lemons or limes avoid the white pith i use potato peeler juice of 4 lemons or limes. Chillies fresh or dry. Add the brown sugar and mix thoroughly until is completely dissolved.
Add the lemon juice and ginger root pulp with the water and set it aside to cool for an hour or two. Pour the ginger sugar water mixture into a 1 gallon glass jug the type that apple cider comes in. Bring a large pot of water to 180f turn the heat off and add your bottles to the hot bath.
Make sure your water level is high enough that it will reach the top of your ginger beer level inside the bottles. What you are doing is pasteurizing your ginger beer. Let the bottles stand in the hot water for at least 10 15 minutes.
The great thing about this method of making ginger beer is that you can make a non alcoholic version that will taste almost exactly the same. Same beery gingery taste but with less of the alcohol. We have so many great non alcoholic lagers that will taste amazing.
Bash the ginger with a mallet then roughly chop it and add it to the heating water 5. Get the defrosted ugly lemon chop it in half then add the juice and pulp to the water 6. Add in 700g of white sugar and stir to dissolve 7.
Bring water to boil stirring a little to prevent the sugar burning. Recently my girlfriend and i discovered hard ginger beer and decided it was delicious. There a couple versions for sale at bevmo but it s pretty expensive stuff i do a lot of homebrewing but had never made anything but beer.
I thought this would. 2 lbs peeled diced ginger root 5 lbs organic cane sugar 5 limes zest and juice water to make 5 gallons yeast nutrient dose per manufacturer instructions 1 packet s 04 yeast boil 2 5 gallons of water then remove from heat. Stir in sugar and yeast nutrient until well dissolved.
There are a lot of instructions available for making non alcoholic versions of ginger beer but for those who want to savor this beverage in its pure form you can try these instructions. Ginger beer was one of the most popular beverages in both america canada and europe until 1920 prohibition in america and 1950 s in europe. Learn to make ginger beer aka ginger ale the old fashioned way with fresh grated ginger and the power of active yeast.
Includes recipe how to video and photo tutorial. This recipe makes roughly 2 liters of ginger beer.