If so – this weekend you need to make the syrup and bottle your ginger beer!
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YOU WILL NEED –
A clean tub or huge clean pot – large enough to hold about 20 litres of liquid.
Lots of clean plastic bottles with lids – at least 15 one litre bottles (excuse my maths, it’s not the best) – and double if you are using both ‘plants’ we made last week.
A big spoon to stir
Some muslin or other such fine fabric to strain your ‘plant’
Sugar – at least 8 cups
Lemon Juice – at least 1 cup
A Funnel
Warm Water
Fancy labels – if you want to make your ginger beer snazzy
(I’m really busy this weekend – so I’m going to keep feeding my plant until Tuesday and bottle mine then – stay tuned for messy photos!)
In the tub, mix 8 cups of sugar, 48 cups of warm water and 1 cup of strained lemon juice.
Now you should strain your ginger beer ‘plant’ through a couple of layers of muslin (this is the ginger beer plant that we divided last Saturday – if you’re greedy like me and are making two lots of ginger beer do the sums accordingly – you’ll need extra sugar, bottles and lemon juice!).
If you don’t have muslin use another light, open weave fabric that will catch any chunky bits! Add the strained ‘plant’ liquid to the sugar/water/lemon mixture and stir well until very well combined.
Dispense into super-clean plastic bottles with the aid of a funnel and a clean tea-cup or other such helpful vessel and wait ONE WEEK. It’ll be lashing of ginger beer all around then!
xx Mikes