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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.
The ginger beer back then often contained between 4 5 alcohol but in some cases 11.
Is 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.
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 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. 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. While england has been sipping on alcoholic ginger beer for hundreds of years america has just begun to discover this gem. Well brits your secret s out.
In addition to its spicy addictive taste and its boozy bonus alcoholic ginger beer is also plain old fun to make. 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.
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.
Some manufacturers ferment the mixture longer and make other adjustments to increase the alcohol content but for our purposes this ginger beer is more akin to ginger ale. If you re concerned make the ginger syrup as noted below but skip the fermentation process and mix it with seltzer water instead to produce a fermentation free beverage. The ginger beer back then often contained between 4 5 alcohol but in some cases 11.
Nowadays most ginger beers are non alcoholic with than 0 5 meeting fda requirements for non alcoholic labeling but some still pack a punch.