BernardSmith
Senior Member
Came across a number of older ginger beer recipes in Stephen Buhner's classic Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers. Buhner himself offers a version that he says he prefers as either a summer drink (for its cooling effects) and as a winter drink (for its ability to warm). So started a version of this last night
1.5 oz of ginger root -
1 lb of demerara sugar (Sugar in the Raw)*
water to make 1 gallon
Juice of one lemon
1 t of lemon extract (home made)
RC 212 yeast
Nutrient
Carbonation drops (for priming)
Method
Sanitized all equipment and tools with K-meta
Roughly chopped the ginger and boiled for about 60 minutes in about 1 qt of spring water.
Allowed the ginger water to cool and added the juice of lemon.
Added about 1 lb of sugar to fermenter
Strained the liquid into fermenter
Added enough additional spring water to make 1 gallon.
Dissolved the sugar in the liquid by shaking and stirring.
Measured gravity - SG = 1.040 (Potentially about 5% ABV )
Pitched yeast.
After confirming activity in airlock added 1/8 t of Fermaid O (nutrient)
Will add lemon extract after 7 days and will bottle in flip top (Grolsch type) bottles with 1 carbonation drop per bottle.
Will allow bottles to carbonate 2 - 3 weeks.
* This is brown sugar rather than sugar to which molasses has been added
1.5 oz of ginger root -
1 lb of demerara sugar (Sugar in the Raw)*
water to make 1 gallon
Juice of one lemon
1 t of lemon extract (home made)
RC 212 yeast
Nutrient
Carbonation drops (for priming)
Method
Sanitized all equipment and tools with K-meta
Roughly chopped the ginger and boiled for about 60 minutes in about 1 qt of spring water.
Allowed the ginger water to cool and added the juice of lemon.
Added about 1 lb of sugar to fermenter
Strained the liquid into fermenter
Added enough additional spring water to make 1 gallon.
Dissolved the sugar in the liquid by shaking and stirring.
Measured gravity - SG = 1.040 (Potentially about 5% ABV )
Pitched yeast.
After confirming activity in airlock added 1/8 t of Fermaid O (nutrient)
Will add lemon extract after 7 days and will bottle in flip top (Grolsch type) bottles with 1 carbonation drop per bottle.
Will allow bottles to carbonate 2 - 3 weeks.
* This is brown sugar rather than sugar to which molasses has been added