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If you want to know the exact alcohol amount then you can determine it by using a hydrometer. Until prohibition ginger beer was an american favorite.
What you are doing is pasteurizing your ginger beer.
Brewing ginger beer alcoholic. So you need to kill the fermentation process. 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. With 1 cup of brown sugar in the mix plus the naturally occurring sugars in the ginger you ll wind up with a ginger beer that is about 3 4 abv alcohol by volume. If you want to know the exact alcohol amount then you can determine it by using a hydrometer.
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.
Alcohol content abv 1042 1002 40 7 36 5 44 0 5 5 95. Added 0 5 because i bottled and added sugar carbonation drops to each bottle. Hope you enjoyed this alcoholic ginger beer home brew recipe.
For more home brew recipes click here. Recipe and method by peter. This will yield 5 gallons of medium flavored alcoholic ginger ale with an abv of 6 4.
For a lighter crisper ginger ale like alcoholic canada dry use about 2 3 of the ginger and limes recommended below. For a fuller craft ginger ale flavor use about 1 1 2 times as much ginger and citrus. You may have found some ginger beer kits but they can have an artificial taste and are lacking in spicy ginger bite.
Our recipe below is for a classic ginger beer at around 4 5 alcohol content but you can also make an alcohol free version for the kids and you can even substitute malt extract for honey or raw sugar to make a gluten free version read our notes at the bottom of the page first. Start by boiling 1 litre of water in a pan and the rest of the water in another pan. The reason for this is we will have sterilised water base to start our brew.
Begin by washing the ginger root in cold water and scrub away any visible dirt patches and cut away any bad bits. Ginger beer was first brewed by the english during the colonial spice trade when ginger from southeast asia and cane sugar from the caribbean were fermented to produce a mildly alcoholic and intensely popular beverage. Until prohibition ginger beer was an american favorite.
Non alcoholic ginger beverages ginger ales are most often force carbonated like soda while hard ginger beer is fermented like any beer to obtain both alcohol and carbonation however there are artisanal craft ginger ales that are fermented just like hard root beer they are just not as common commercially here in the us. Traditional ginger beer is a sweetened and carbonated usually non alcoholic beverage it is produced by the natural fermentation of prepared ginger spice yeast and sugar. Its origins date from the colonial spice trade with the orient and the sugar producing islands of the caribbean.
It was popular in britain and its colonies from the 18th century.