Ginger Beer Plant Instructions
Items Needed:
- Glass jar, food grade w/ plastic top
- Organic sugar or cane juice
- Ginger, fresh grated or dried
- Fresh organic lemons, do not use bottled lemon juice or your brew will be flat.
- For Stage II, you'll need beer bottles and caps or some use plastic bottles.
STAGE I
Add contents of package to 500ml good quality water (no city water). Then add 2 tsp sugar and 2 tsp grated ginger to this solution. Stir mixture and cover with lid. Keep in a warm place fo 24 hours.
Feed the ginger plant with 2 tsp sugar and 2 tsp ginger each day for the next 7 days. After 7 days, strain off the liquid into a clean container set aside for Stage II. Keep the solid matter...this is your ginger plant!
STAGE II
Now that you have your flavor concentrate, it's time to bottle up the brew. Dissolve 300 to 500g sugar into 500 ml of hot water. To this add 75 ml of fresh lemon juice. Dilute this with 2 liters of cold water. You now have around 3000ml of concentrate. Once the mixer is cool enough then add the saved ginger liquid from Stage I. Mix everything well.
Pour liquid into your bottles and cap tightly. Store your bottled brew in a cardbord box for 5 to 7 days, until beverage is ready to drink. The sugar can be varied to taste. We find 300g of sugar works the best! This amount makes about a 12 pack of brew.
STAGE III
Take 2 tbsp of the old sediment and start the process over again with 500ml of water in a clean jar. You can split the ginger plant and have more containers making concentrate if you like, too. Two ginger cultures can make 24 12oz bottles in around 1 1/2 weeks. Date your bottles and is best to consume within 2 weeks to a month. You can just maintain the ginger plant each day, if you like, and not bottle every week.
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