To make FD Ginger Beer you need to make a bug, it’s got no legs and doesn’t bite but it is soooooo yum!!!
Many old people have memories of some bottles from a batch of ginger beer exploding before they could drink them. These were the days when they bottled ginger beer in glass bottles and capped them with the sort of tops on beer ad soft drink bottles. Nowadays you still need to be careful but using plastic bottles with screw tops make it much easier. The most painful part is waiting for your first batch of ‘bug’ to mature.
You will need help to make this and a load of patience.
Are you ready
ready
Go!!
Ingredients for ginger beer bug
750 mls warm water
2 teaspoons active yeast
2 teaspoons raw sugar
2 teaspoons ground ginger
Method
1.Take a 1 litre preserving jar or wide necked plastic container (an icecream container will work)
2. Pour the warm water into the container
3. Add yeast, sugar and ginger
4. Keep the container sitting on the kitchen bench
5. Feed it every day for one week with 1 teaspoon raw sugar and 1 teaspoon ground ginger.
Ginger beer
Ingredients
3 cups of raw sugar
2 tsp cream of tartar
1 litre of boiling water
5 litres of cold water
ginger beer bug
Method
1.You will need a large bowl and 7 or 8 x 1 litre plastic soft drink bottles
2. Put sugar and cream of tartar into the bowl
3. Add boiling water first, followed by the cold water
4. The container of ‘bug’ will have sludge in the bottom and liquid on the top.
5. Pour the liquid part into the bowl.
6. Stir well and pour into well washed soft drink bottles.
It pays to write the date on the bottles at this stage because you need to wait two weeks before drinking.
After two weeks open carefully (outside is good) as sometimes the ginger beer takes on a life of its own and may burst out everywhere when opened, especially if the bottles are hard.
With the leftover bug fill the jar with water and throw half away or give it away to a friend.
Fill the jar back up to 3/4 full and start again.
