01
Nov
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. 4 litres of freshly boiled water.
Make your own alcoholic ginger beer.
Homemade ginger beer alcoholic. 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.
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. 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. The most basic way to make ginger beer is pretty simple. Ferment a mixture of water brewer s or baker s yeast ginger and sugar.
This is kept for a week or longer with sugar added daily to increase the alcohol content. When ready this concentrated mix is strained diluted with water and lemon juice and then bottled. First off make a plant for your ginger beer.
Stir the yeast into the warm water until dissolved. Add in 1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger 1 tablespoon sugar the lemon juice sliced jalapeno and stir to combine. The jalapeno will give your ginger beer that kick you can feel in the back of your throat if you don t roll like that omit it.
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.
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. 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. Sprinkle the yeast in followed by the syrup lemon juice and water. Put the lid on the bottle and shake the concoction until the yeast is dissolved.
Add a touch of spice to your next drink with a splash of ginger beer. Whether you re in the mood for a classic cocktail because you can never go wrong with a moscow mule or a dark n stormy or something new and exciting this cranberry packed krank s caribbean mule was inspired by the holiday movie christmas with the kranks you ll want to bookmark this collection of ginger beer drinks. Alcohol free version 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.