Recipe For Ginger Beer - A Wonderful Non Alcoholic Beverage

Ginger beer has a completely different recipe than regular beer, it's completely non alcoholic and easy to make, the confusion that people have probably lays in the term beer, it's just a common mistake. Ginger beer may be mixed with beer (usually a British ale of some sort) to make one type of shandy. Anyone can make this recipe and everyone can drink it, even children.

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The process involved of making home made ginger beer is quite simple and quick, it is a lot of fun to make even with your (grand)children. Really anyone can make this refreshing recipe. There are a lot of recipes you can find online but the one we will give you is especially popular. It is the recipe we use in our family for a very long time and we all love it. It is simple to make and a lot of fun. So try making it, you will be proud when you taste it.

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What do you need for your own Home Made Ginger Beer

Ingredients and Tools:

When you plan to make your own ginger beer you need the proper tools and ingredients. For our recipe you will need eight pint (plastic) bottles or four quart (plastic) bottles, and bowls where you can make the mixture in.

Basic Recipe

For this most basic home made ginger beer recipe, the required ingredients are as follows:

- 2 oz. fresh ginger

- 1 tsp. cream of tartar

- 2 lemons

- 1 lb. sugar

- 1 oz. yeast.

- 1 gallon boiling water

You can do without the cream of tartar, some of my family members make it with and others without it and both ways taste excellent. You need sugar in this recipe and you really should not replace it with an artificial sweetener because it makes the taste dry in the mouth. Ginger already has a bit of a dry after taste and a sweetener instead of sugar just makes it more dry.

The preparation is easy, You need to wash the lemons and slice them in thick rings, after that the ginger root should be roughly crushed. Mix the ginger, lemon, sugar and cream of tartar in a large bowl.

Pour the boiling water over the top, stir the mixture and let it cool to lukewarm temperature. After that you need to stir in the yeast. You'll need to leave it for 24-48 hours to let the yeast go to work. Once the plastic bottle is very hard, and can't be squeezed, the beer is done. At that time you need to skim off the yeast and the mixture strained. After that your beer can be bottled. Place the bottle in the fridge overnight. This halts the yeast and stops the bottle exploding. Once it is chilled, pour it into a glass and enjoy. When you just follow this simple ginger beer recipe you can't go wrong.

Exploding bottles

Because of the yeast, ginger beer can be a very aggressive fermenter, it produces high pressure very rapidly. So it is better not to bottle ginger beer in glass bottles. You also should not leave the finished ginger beer in a closed up warm place, because this can result in generating enough pressure to explode the lid of.

This is just one, although very popular, recipe for ginger beer. On the internet or at your favorite brewing supply store you can find many more.

Have fun in making this delicious recipe, and enjoy making it together with your children or grandchildren. Together you can make little changes to make it your personal Ginger Beer recipe.

Recipe For Ginger Beer - A Wonderful Non Alcoholic Beverage

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Alcoholic Ginger Beer and Fruit Cocktail Ideas

Ginger Beer tastes good by itself, but is even better when you add it to a drink. You can make delicious cocktails using a combination of Ginger Beer (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) and fresh fruit. Doing so gives you the benefits of ginger that cleans your blood and reduces your chances of catching colds and a portion of fruit, which also has health benefits. Everyone struggles to have enough fruit in their diet, so adding fruit to something that is not normally considered healthy i.e. alcohol is a sneaky way of doing so that really works.

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A Rising Sun is a really pretty cocktail. Make it by bashing a 1 inch cube of peeled fresh ginger with a heavy spoon to release its juices. Pour 75 ml of cool Earl Grey Tea over it and add a teaspoon full of honey to the mix. Stir it and add 15 ml of lemon juice. Pour the resulting mix over ice then add mint and a slice of orange to it and top it up with Ginger Beer. Whilst this is not strictly a fruit based cocktail it is extremely healthy because the tea and ginger both help to break down free radicals within the body.

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A Black Crush is made by puréeing a punnet of either blueberries or blackberries in a blender and 20ml of fresh orange juice, straining it to remove any remaining pips and skin then sweetening it by stirring in caster or icing sugar to taste. Pour this into a glass filled with ice and top up with Ginger Beer.

To make a Ginger Rock scrape out the insides of 2 passion fruits and put it into a cocktail shaker, add a dash of passion fruit syrup, 12 ml of lemon juice, a dash of lemon bitters and add some ice and shake. Pour this into a sugar rimmed cocktail glass and top up with Ginger Beer.

To make a Ginger Apple take 100 ml of sharp apple juice or apple cider and mix in 25 ml of fresh lemon or lime juice and a dash or two of lemon bitters. Shake them together using a cocktail shaker, strain and pour into a pre-chilled glass. Top up with Ginger Beer, garnish with mint and a slice of apple and serve.

To make a Raspberry Ruffle, take a scoop of raspberry sorbet add a passion fruit and a dash of lime juice, blend them together and pour them into a cold tumbler. Add some ice and top up with some Ginger Beer.

Ginger goes well with darker or red fruits, so use your imagination and experiment. Just make sure that you use a good quality ingredients and you will have some great results that you can share with your friends and family.

Alcoholic Ginger Beer and Fruit Cocktail Ideas

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