Recipe
1 gallon water
12 oz ginger root chopped in food processor
1.5 cups sugar
1 lemon juiced and zested
1 lime juiced and zested.
Add ginger and sugar to water.
Boil for 30 minutes.
Remove from heat, add lemon and lime zest, grated rind.
After on hour, add lemon and lime juice
Continue to cool unit below 120 deg F.
Strain into fermentor.
Pitch yeast later when room temp.
Ferment till yeast fizzles out in about a week.
Boil 1/8 cup sugar water for bottling fizz.
Bottle condition for one week.
Refrigerate.
Enjoy.
This is our first effort in making ginger beer. Next run will include several pounds of two row barley and some rye instead of the sugar.
Will let you know how it turns out.
Update: The lemon is too heavy and the ginger is too faint. Probably boiled too long, and fermented too long. Adding simple sugar helps but the verdict is that wifey will purchase her Crabby's when she whats a bottle.
Update 2: The other day I poured equal parts simple syrup and ginger beer over a couple of ice cubes, added a lemon wedge and had a taste. It really is kind of refreshing. I think I'll try it again.
Update: The lemon is too heavy and the ginger is too faint. Probably boiled too long, and fermented too long. Adding simple sugar helps but the verdict is that wifey will purchase her Crabby's when she whats a bottle.
Update 2: The other day I poured equal parts simple syrup and ginger beer over a couple of ice cubes, added a lemon wedge and had a taste. It really is kind of refreshing. I think I'll try it again.
