Traditional ginger beer
Traditional ginger beer

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Learn to make ginger beer (aka ginger ale) the old fashioned way, with fresh grated ginger and the power of active yeast. Includes recipe, how-to video and photo tutorial. Ingredients Needed for Ginger Beer: All it takes is fresh grated ginger, cream of tartar, lemon juice, baker's yeast, and water.

Traditional ginger beer is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Traditional ginger beer is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook traditional ginger beer using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Traditional ginger beer:
  1. Take 9 l water
  2. Prepare 30 g dry yeast
  3. Prepare 400 g brown bread (crumbed)
  4. Prepare 150 g raisins with pits
  5. Take 600 g dark brown sugar
  6. Get 600 g granulated sugar
  7. Take 4 Tbsp ground ginger
  8. Take 1/2 fresh ginger stalk with skin finely chopped or shredded
  9. Prepare 2 Tbsp cream of tartar

It is produced by the natural fermentation of prepared ginger spice, yeast and sugar. Its origins date from the colonial spice trade with the Orient and the sugar-producing islands of the Caribbean. Recreate a old favourite that Just William and the Famous Five would recognise. A perfect refresher for a warm summer day, and not too sweet.

Steps to make Traditional ginger beer:
  1. Use a large container that can hold at least 10l of water.
  2. In a small pan put raisins and yeast together. Boil a kettle and measure a litre into the mix. Stir until dissolved. Add into large container and add the remaining ingredients to this. Stir the mixture until thoroughly mixed. Put a lid on or clingfilm the top.
  3. Leave to ferment for 24 hours in a warm area. Stir mixture and repeat process to increase the strength as preferred.
  4. Once you are happy with the strength put it through fine sieve and the bottle the contents. Best served with slice fresh ginger and a shot or two of good quality brandy over ice.

You can increase or reduce the ginger taste by varying the quantities of ginger used. Traditional ginger beer was made using a ginger beer plant. This is NOT something that you can easily make yourself - it must be possible to make it yourself because someone hundreds of years ago by chance seems to have created it. If a recipe calls for yeast it is not REAL ginger beer! Traditional ginger beer has been a favorite among South Africans for a long time.

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