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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. For a lighter crisper ginger ale like alcoholic canada dry use about 2 3 of the ginger and limes recommended below.
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.
Making alcoholic ginger beer. 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.
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.
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.
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 three or four tablespoons more or less depending upon how gingery you like it of your syrup over ice and add 8 ounces of seltzer water or club soda.
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. Strain the mixture and bottle it in a bottle that can handle the carbonation.
See notes for more details. Allow the ginger beer to ferment for a further 3 to 5 days to build up the carbonation. Once it s fizzy store the ginger beer in the refrigerator and consume within four weeks.
1 2 tbsp of finely grated or chopped fresh root ginger add more for a kick juice of one lemon 1 good tbsp of clear honey a little dried chili pepper for an added kick.