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Strain the plant through a piece of clean cotton cloth keeping the sediment. Combine 2 lbs 1 kg sugar with 4 cups 1 litre boiling water in a large container.
To make ginger beer from a ginger beer plant.
Make your own ginger beer plant. Add the water to the jar containing your ginger beer plant. Then add the ginger juice or powdered ginger sugar and lemon juice and chilli if using to the jar. You need to have about a third empty at the top of the jar to allow for expansion.
You can then place a muslin or tea towel over the top of the jar and secure it with an elastic band. Splitting your ginger beer plant for the next batch. Split the muddy looking contents of the strained ginger beer plant equally into two sterilized jars.
Add two cups of water to each jar and resume feeding your ginger beer plants with two teaspoons of powdered ginger and four teaspoons of raw sugar each plant every day for the next 7 days until you are ready to bottle again. First make your plant by combining all ginger beer plant ingredients golden raisins juice rind sugar ginger and water in a screw top jar and leave for two to three days. Then for the next seven days feed your plant daily by stirring in 2 tsp ground ginger and 1 tbsp sugar each day.
To make the ginger beer place the sugar in a large basin. To make ginger beer from a ginger beer plant. Combine 2 lbs 1 kg sugar with 4 cups 1 litre boiling water in a large container.
Stir until sugar is dissolved. Add 2 gallons 8 litres cold water and 1 cup lemon juice. Strain the plant through a piece of clean cotton cloth keeping the sediment.