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Recipe Basic Ginger Beer

Here's a simple recipe for one-off-brewed ginger beer, with no other flavour additives (I'm still experimenting with those). 

Ingredients

  • Fresh ginger root (I use one chunk, about the size of my palm)
  • Sugar (1 cup)
  • Yeast (½ teaspoon)
  • Water (2 litres)

Process

  1. Chop up the ginger in to small (half centimetre or so) chunks
  2. Place in a pot with 2 litres of boiling water, and boil for 30 minutes
  3. While the water is boiling, mix some of your sugar with a cup of warm water, and sprinkle the yeast on top
  4. After 30 minutes, strain the ginger out of the water (I didn't strain the one in the picture) and let it sit until tepid
  5. Once the water is cool enough to not kill the yeast, add said yeasty water to the mix
  6. Leave the bottles somewhere warmish in your house for 24 hours
  7. After 24 hours, put them in the fridge
  8. After 2-5 days, slowly open, and drink!

Notes

  • Open the bottles very slowly if you don't want a mess
  • The amount of sugar can be varied. 1 cup will end up being roughly the  same amount of sugar that is in Coca-Cola, but it works with less
  • The amount of ginger can be varied too!
  • I usually make it on Wednesday or Thursday night, so it's ready for me to take to work and drink on Monday

I am: Levi, a dude named ben living north of most Canadians
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