Sally Wise’s Recipe from here
Make the ‘plant’ or starter
- ½ teaspoon dried yeast
- 1 rounded teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 rounded teaspoon sugar
- 1 cup lukewarm water
Mix all together in a jar, cover with a piece of muslin and secure with a rubber band.
Each day for the next week, add 1 teaspoon sugar and 1 teaspoon ground ginger.
Divide the ‘plant’
Divide the plant left in the jar into two halves. Place one of these in a glass jar with a cup of warm water. Then next day start feeding as before, that is, one teaspoon of ginger and one of sugar each day for a week. (The other half of the plant can be given to a friend with this recipe), or you can have two plants ‘on the go’ if you’re crazy for ginger beer like me!
Make up the Ginger Beer:
For the syrup, mix together:
- 4 cups of sugar
- 24 cups of warm water
- ½ cup strained lemon juice
Strain the ginger beer plant through two layers of muslin.
Pour the resulting liquid into the syrup and mix well.
Bottle and Wait
Bottle in absolutely totally clean plastic bottles and seal. The ginger beer should be ready to drink by the end of a week.