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Chillies fresh or dry. Once the ginger and sugar are in set your timer for 60 minutes.
Pour the mixture into the bottle.
Make alcoholic ginger beer. 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 process for making alcoholic ginger beer is very similar to soda.
You just let the fermentation continue for longer so that alcohol is formed. A good ginger beer should give you a warming tingle as you drink it not from the alcohol but from the bite of the ginger. 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. 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. After the ginger is added slowly stir in the turbinado sugar.
What you do not want is to dump the sugar in all at once and have it burn on the bottom of the pot which will impart a flavor. Once the ginger and sugar are in set your timer for 60 minutes. It s a good idea to watch the kettle for a minute or two as it may foam up an boil over.
The basic process of making ginger beer is to grow your yeast culture called a plant. You then squeeze the juice of the plant into your sugary water bottle it and let it ferment. Pour the mixture into the bottle.
Fill the bottle roughly half with water. Screw on the cap and shake until most of the sugar has dissolved. Fill the bottle to the top leaving a gap at the top for expansion of the gas.
Screw on the cap and place the bottle in a warm place for 48 hours. 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.
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. 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.