This week, since I have elected alcoholic ginger beer as my tipple of choice at the moment, I decided to do a little bit of research to see if I could make my own.
This wasn’t just a mad rush of blood to the head, together with a thought of “I can do that!” I dimly remembered my parents making ginger beer in my long gone youth.
So, after a little searching on the internet, I found recipes for a ‘ginger beer plant.’ Obviously, this isn’t a plant at all, but more of a ‘starter’ like a sourdough starter that you feed everyday with ginger and sugar. You can then use this to make ginger beer every week provided you continue to feed it.
So I now have my ginger beer plant/starter bubbling away in the spare room. So, depending on how things go, this time next week, I’ll be able to make some very nice home made alcoholic ginger beer, or there will be a minor explosion, and the walls of my spare room will be 40% proof.
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Sounds like fun!!
We’ve just bought a winemaking starter kit and I’m wondering if I can do anything with all the elderberries in the back garden. Looking forward to find out how the beer turns out!
It was worth a try I thought!
We have a lot of elderberries at our allotment and in our garden, so we are going to try elderberry wine as well. Let me know how yours works out.
Craig it would be interesting to see the odd picture to see what the ginger beer/starter plant looks like
) Hope this works for you! Lashings & lashings of ginger beer to boot!
All the best, Carol
Hi Carol,
It is already looking a little lively this morning! I’ve give it a couple of days to get going, and then I’ll post pictures with an update on here, or on Twitter.
Cheers,
Craig
Will be interested to know how you get on. I tried this many years ago and failed completely! As I love ginger beer, it would be good to try it again. I had thought it wasn’t meant to be particularly alcoholic though?
You’re right that technically, it is not supposed to be that alcoholic. However, there is quite a lot of sugar in the recipe that I am following, and I’m not sure how much of that is going to convert to alcohol!
I’ll update the blog with my progress – good or bad
I used to make that when I was young… you must post the recipe and details and lashings and lashings of pictures!
I will do, provided I don’t blow the house up!