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Wednesday 7 July 2021

Making Ginger Beer!

 Hello welcome to or back to my blog, Today i'm doing work about Ginger Beer.

Researching Yeast Types.

The History of Ginger Beer making: Ginger beer – the delicious, brewed, fermented beverage that we all know and love – first appeared around the mid-1700s in England. It was initially made as a fermented alcoholic beverage using ginger, sugar and water.

Bakers Yeast:

Nutritional Yeast:

Brewers Yeast:


Research 3 Ginger Beer Recipes. 

Equipment:

Bug
Warm water
2 tsp active dried yeast
2 tsp Chelsea Raw Sugar
2 tsp ground ginger

Ginger beer
3 cups Chelsea Raw Sugar
2 tsp cream of tartar
1L boiling water and
5L cold water
Juice of 2 lemons, strained

Ingredients:

    Bug
    Warm water
    2 tsp active dried yeast
    2 tsp Chelsea Raw Sugar
    2 tsp ground ginger

    Ginger beer
    3 cups Chelsea Raw Sugar
    2 tsp cream of tartar
    1L boiling water and
    5L cold water
    Juice of 2 lemons, strained

Process:

    Bug:
    Fill a large glass jar ¾ full with warm water. Add the yeast, Chelsea Raw Sugar and ginger. Cover loosely with a lid or tea-towel – do not screw tight or it won’t be able to breathe. Sit in a warm place, such as the kitchen table or similar.  
    Feed your bug every day for seven days with 1 tsp Chelsea Raw Sugar and 1 tsp ground ginger.
    After a week, you are ready to make your first batch of beer.

    Ginger Beer:
    In a large bowl or bucket, put the Chelsea Raw Sugar and cream of tartar, then add the boiling water. Stir to dissolve the sugar before adding the cold water. Get your bug and pour all the liquid (not the sludge in the bottom) into a bucket and add the lemon juice.

    Stir well and then pour into your clean bottles – it makes six 750ml bottles.

    Store in a cool, dark place for two weeks before drinking. Make sure you open the bottle in the kitchen sink as it might overflow. Open the cap bit by bit to allow the air to escape.

    RESTORE AND REUSE
    Take the jar with the sludge in it and fill with water to the top. Tip out half or give to a friend so that they can make their own bug. Fill back up to ¾ and feed for another week.

    DON’T NEGLECT IT
    If you are too busy to make a batch of ginger beer one week, don’t just keep feeding and hope for the best, as your bug won’t survive. Pour it out after a week – as you would if you were making some ginger beer – and follow the above instructions for restoring your bug all over again. 

    Thanks for reading and thanks to chelseas for the recipes: https://www.chelsea.co.nz/browse-recipes/ginger-beer/. Have a great day thanks thomas.

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