Making Ginger Beer Step by Step

fresh ginger

🥗Healthier: ginger powder

💰Cheaper: ginger syrup

Ginger powder is more accessible and easier to store.

sugar

🥗Healthier: honey

💰Cheaper: brown sugar

Honey adds flavor while reducing refined sugar.

lemon juice

🥗Healthier: lime juice

💰Cheaper: citric acid

Lime juice provides a similar tartness.

yeast

🥗Healthier: kombucha starter

💰Cheaper: sourdough starter

Kombucha starter can add probiotics.

Take 500 grams of ginger preserve and 500 grams of palm sugar.

Scrape off the cardboard from the ginger preserve jars, which takes about 5 minutes.

Dissolve the ginger preserve and palm sugar in hot water, which takes about 10 minutes.

Fill a container with water until it reaches about 10 liters.

Add the dissolved sugary mixture to the water.

Stir in regular baker's yeast using your hand.

Place the mixture in a warm spot to ferment for a few days, monitoring it closely.

After 2 days, observe that it is still bubbling vigorously.

On day 5, prepare to bottle the ginger beer while it is still fermenting to retain sweetness.

Use a cheesecloth in a funnel to strain the mixture into bottles, avoiding any floating bits.

Cap the bottles and leave them at room temperature for a day or two to continue fermenting.

After a day or two, put the bottles in the fridge to stop fermentation, a process called cold crashing.

Leave the bottles in the fridge until ready to drink.

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