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Recently my girlfriend and i discovered hard ginger beer and decided it was delicious. There a couple versions for sale at bevmo but it s pretty expensive stuff i do a lot of homebrewing but had never made anything but 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.
Make ginger beer alcoholic. 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. 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. 1 2 lb of sugar 1 gallon of water 3 alcohol like a low alcohol beer use this. Keep the cap on loose until the bubbles stop.
Then you filter the swill you need to filter it or it will be gross and add 1 4 tsp sugar and screw the cap on tight and let sit under the kitchen sink for 2 weeks this will carbonate it. Recently my girlfriend and i discovered hard ginger beer and decided it was delicious. There a couple versions for sale at bevmo but it s pretty expensive stuff i do a lot of homebrewing but had never made anything but beer.
I thought this would. 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.
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. Add a touch of spice to your next drink with a splash of ginger beer.
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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.