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1 kg white sugar granulated for an interesting flavour combination try 500 grams brown and 500 grams white sugar. Then sprinkle yeast on top.
Bottle the rest of the syrup and store it in the refrigerator.
Ginger beer recipe homebrew. 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. Take about a half cup of warm water and mix with sugar. Then sprinkle yeast on top.
Boil about 2 litres of water. Peel the ginger root and cut into smaller pieces. When water has been brought to a boil add the ginger root cloves and anise.
You ll probably want to carbonate your ginger beer you could drink it still flat but bubbly is so much better. Heat 1 cup of water and add cup brown sugar. Mix the sugar and water until they are completely dissolved then set them aside to cool down to room temperature.
Once they are cool stir them into the ginger beer. 1 kg white sugar granulated for an interesting flavour combination try 500 grams brown and 500 grams white sugar. 200 grams fresh root ginger add more for a stronger ginger flavour 2 fresh lemons or use 2 oranges to add more flavour dynamic 4 5 litres of water.
11 grams beer yeast i use gervin. Ginger beer is quite similar to ginger ale since it is also carbonated ginger flavored sweetened and served cold however while ginger ale tastes barely like ginger and mostly sweet ginger beer can have a varying taste of ginger with just a hint of sweet. Ginger beer is great by itself and necessary for mixing with a host of cocktails.
You can make an alcohol free version of this ginger beer actually a very low alcohol version at less than 0 5. Just omit the malt extract and raw sugar added to the boil. Once the mixture is cooled add the yeast and stir and allow to sit for just 30 minutes before bottling with carbonation drops as usual.
Pour three or four tablespoons more or less depending upon how gingery you like it of your syrup over ice and add 8 ounces of seltzer water or club soda. Bottle the rest of the syrup and store it in the refrigerator. For the full ginger beer experience place a funnel in the top of the bottle.
Keep in mind the recipe i am sharing in this post is the easy version of fermented ginger beer. The authentic version uses a ginger bug or ginger starter which is ginger that has fermented in sugar and water to the point that its natural enzymes and probiotics are released. I ve made the fabbri ginger ale recipe on this website and it turned out amazing.
I m not really sure how much fermentable sugar is in fresh ginger root. I peeled and grated 16oz of fresh ginger and added half at the beginning of the boil and the rest 15 min later. The recipe has only a 30 min boil.
However some people like the taste of ginger beer made with saccharomyces c. Variations like brewers wine cide or bakers yeasts using more usual brewing wine cider making methods other make it with water kefire or you can make ginger flavoured malt beer or ginger wines. Why not play and experiment a bit.