The REAL ginger beer recipe!

Step 6 Adding the ginger beer plant

The first image shows real ginger beer plant. You'll notice the grains are much bigger than usual yeast. This stuff has been in my fridge about a week or so in a plastic bag. It smells yeasty and slightly alcoholic.

Just drop it into the mix with your won ton style grated ginger (See 2nd pic)

Now I like my fermentation vessel airtight. I do this because it stops anything getting into the barrel to cause infection. Like animals, insects, small children etc.

The best way is to have a proper beer fermentation device. These have lids and to get a good seal you need to lubricate the rubber ring with petroleum jelly. (pic three and four) so go lubricate that ring if you can!

The airlock is the final bit of the airtight mechanism. If I just stuck a solid lid on it, the CO2 which is a by product of alcohol production will quite literally blow the lid off. You just put a bit of water in it and it lets pressure out without letting wild yeast or insects in.

Final pic shows it all barreled up.

Comments

[pi77]

hi folks... i was on my way to making my own ginger beer. i was going to try both methods. using the gbp from Retro Culture in the uk and using yeast.

unfortunately for me my house was broken into and trashed. needless to say all my ginger beer plant was destroyed.

at present i am not able to afford to order more from the uk so i am hoping somebody here would be kind enough to send me some.

thanks.

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