Make Your Own Ginger Beer Plant/ Brewing your own Ginger Beer by Tea

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This is a very natural and nutritious Drink, it can be Alcoholic or non-Alcoholic. It is great for Clod Winter months and for those Hot Summer days as a refreshing Drink. I will post a recipe for the Non-alcoholic Cocktail in a few moments. I hope you all enjoy this either way you like your Drinks and the way you can use natural products to make something that is not only good for you but is a great compliment to any time of the year.

Blessings,

~Tea~

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Equipment You Will Need

A jar and lid which is big enough to contain the plant.
One pint-sized measuring jug
Several clean and dry two-litre plastic bottles.
Teaspoons
A large pan
A fine cloth for straining the plant

Ingredients

Dried ginger
Dried yeast
Sugar
Juice of four lemons
Water


Making your Plant

The plant is a mixture of dried ginger, yeast, sugar and water.This creates a yeast culture.

In the jar, place one teaspoon of dried yeast, two teaspoons of dried ginger, four teaspoons of sugar and a pint (600ml) of cold water.

Stir and Store the jar in a warm dry place to help the process along.

Every day your plant must be nourished by feeding with two teaspoons of dried ginger and four teaspoons of sugar.

Stir after feeding.Your plant should be ready after one week.

Reviving Your Plant

Once the plant has been harvested, it is possible to revive it by separating the remainder into halves and cultivating it as before.

Discard half of the solid from the plant or give it to someone so they may start their own.

Place the remaining half in a clean jar with a pint of water and continue to feed as above.

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Making the Ginger Beer
Place 1kg (2lb) of sugar and two pints of boiling water in the large pan.

The sugar will dissolve.

Add the juice of the four lemons to the pan.

Strain the contents of the jar - the plant - through the cloth into the pan. See below for what is to be done with the solid portion of the plant.

Add 14 pints of room temperature water.

Stir and bottle in plastic bottles. Fill the bottles about seven-eighths full as you need to allow for expansion.

Squeeze the air out of the bottles to stop them exploding under pressure from their contents.

Store the bottles in a safe place at room temperature, and leave for three to four weeks

You can make the Non-Alcoholic Drink of this Beer

3 to 4 Lemon's

2 to 3 Limes

Juice the Lemons and Limes and pour into a strainer to catch pulp.

Grade up the amount of Ginger Root to your taste, The more Ginger the Spicier it is and nicer. Add the Graded Ginger to a Cheese Cloth and strain the Juice from it into your Juiced Lemons and Limes.

I like to add a little Clove to the mixture, it adds to the taste. You can go wild with you use of the spices you like to use, just play with it until you get it to were you like it.

Strain all of this mixture through a Clean Cheese Cloth inside of a small screened strainer to catch all of the pulp, Pour all of this into a half gallon Pitcher then add enough carbonated Mineral water to it to fill up the Pitcher.

Stir graciously in the Pitcher, add Ice to you glass and pour and Enjoy your very Nutritious Cocktail. Now you can if you wish to add a little rum to it for you Alcohol Drinkers to make a nice fast version of the Ginger Beer I posted above, that originated back in the 1700's from Africa and England.

 

Hope you enjoy.

Blessings,

~Tea~