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Last week, one of my clients gave me this recipe for homemade ginger beer. He made it sound so easy that I wrote down the recipe and made a bottle this weekend!
Let the mixture simmer for a longer time if you want a spicier ginger beer. I simmered the mixture for 20 minutes, but next time I will try letting it go for 30 minutes, since I want a strong ginger bite. When the ginger beer is finally ready, try making the tequila lime gingerale cocktails that our aunt made for us.
You can also use half brown sugar and half white sugar to give a bit of caramel flavour and colour to the ginger beer. I also added instructions for siphoning off the ginger beer to leave the yeasty sediment in the brewing bottle, but I found that I couldn’t taste the yeast and just drank it straight from the bottle (although I discarded the sediment).
Homemade Ginger Beer
Ingredients
- 2 L water
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 thumb ginger grated
- 3 Tbsp lemon juice
- 1/8 tsp dry yeast
Instructions
- In a large pot over high heat, bring the water, sugar, ginger, and lemon juice to a boil.
- Turn heat to low and simmer for at least 10 minutes; simmer it for up to 30 minutes if you want a stronger, spicier ginger flavour.
- Remove the pot from the heat and let cool to lukewarm. Strain through a fine sieve or cheesecloth to remove the ginger pieces.
- Pour the ginger water into a plastic 2 L bottle, leaving about 5-7 centimetres of headspace at the top.
- Add the yeast and seal the bottle. Let the bottle sit at room temperature for 24 hours. At this point the bottle will be pressurized with air; open the lid to release some of the gases. Reseal and store in the fridge for another 8 hours or overnight.
- You can either drink it at this point, or siphon off the ginger beer from the yeasty sediment at the bottom of the bottle. To do this, keep the brewing bottle at a higher level than the clean bottle to which you will be siphoning the beer. Take a plastic tube and insert one end into the brewing bottle, making sure not to disturb the sediment. Have the clean bottle at a lower level, ready to go. Give the free end of the plastic tube a quick suck to get the ginger beer moving, and quickly place the free end of the tube into the clean bottle.
- Store in the fridge.
Wow! I bet it’s awesome! Great recipe, thanks for sharing!
Cheers
I don’t think I’ve ever had ginger beer, but it sounds so easy (and you took a great photo!). I’ve pinned it to my “Yum!” board so I won’t forget to try it out!
I HAVE to try this. I would leave it longer because I love spicy.
Thanks for sharing on Tasty Tuesdays link up. Hope to see you back next week.
Thanks so much for sharing this recipe at Dream. Create. Inspire. Link. It sounds really easy to make and the tequila lime ginger ale sounds delish! Hope to see you at the party tomorrow night:).
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