Traditional ginger beer
Traditional ginger beer

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, traditional ginger beer. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Traditional ginger beer is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Traditional ginger beer is something which I have loved my whole life.

Traditional ginger beer is a sweetened and carbonated, usually non-alcoholic beverage. It is produced by the natural fermentation of prepared ginger spice, yeast and sugar. Its origins date from the colonial spice trade with the Orient and the sugar-producing islands of the Caribbean.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook traditional ginger beer using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Traditional ginger beer:
  1. Prepare 9 l water
  2. Take 30 g dry yeast
  3. Prepare 400 g brown bread (crumbed)
  4. Make ready 150 g raisins with pits
  5. Get 600 g dark brown sugar
  6. Make ready 600 g granulated sugar
  7. Make ready 4 Tbsp ground ginger
  8. Get 1/2 fresh ginger stalk with skin finely chopped or shredded
  9. Prepare 2 Tbsp cream of tartar

Pour the ginger beer into strong bottles (old plastic pop bottles are ideal - clean them with Milton or similar first). Ginger beer is all the rage right now, and for a very good reason. Most of us think of ginger beer in the context of the Dark n' Stormy and other cocktails that involve the brew. Ginger beer: a traditional fermented low-alcohol drink.

Steps to make Traditional ginger beer:
  1. Use a large container that can hold at least 10l of water.
  2. In a small pan put raisins and yeast together. Boil a kettle and measure a litre into the mix. Stir until dissolved. Add into large container and add the remaining ingredients to this. Stir the mixture until thoroughly mixed. Put a lid on or clingfilm the top.
  3. Leave to ferment for 24 hours in a warm area. Stir mixture and repeat process to increase the strength as preferred.
  4. Once you are happy with the strength put it through fine sieve and the bottle the contents. Best served with slice fresh ginger and a shot or two of good quality brandy over ice.

Note, however, that ginger beer was traditionally made not with pure yeast, but with a mixed culture of lactobacilli and yeasts. Traditional ginger beer is easy to make at home. Homemade ginger beer is refreshingly probiotic, spicy and delicious! It's also made with real ginger, so it will help alleviate nausea. Many people mistake ginger beer with ginger ale - the classic.

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