Homemade Ginger Beer

Ingredients

Autumn in the vegetable garden for me means lots of preservation and fermentation, and fermented probiotic rich ginger beer is one of my favourite things to make as the process is just so easy and it tastes much better than store bought versions! 😊🫚🫙🫧

First, I make a ginger bug, by adding water, unrefined sugar, and diced ginger to a clean jar, I give it a good shake and place it in a warm spot for around 24 hours, and then feed the ginger bug extra ginger and sugar daily, for around 3-5 days, (I have a video dedicated to this that I posted a week ago).

Once the ginger bug is active and producing lots of carbonation, it’s time to make the ginger beer.

I add unrefined sugar and grated ginger to a pan of filtered water, and don’t worry about the amount of sugar, most of it will be absorbed during the fermentation and is necessary to create the carbonation. 🫧

I bring that to a boil and let it simmer for around 10 minutes, take it off the heat to cool until room temperature, then I’ll pour it through a sieve, add the juice of 2 lemons, and half a cup of the strained ginger bug I made earlier. 🍋

Give it a good mix and then pour into sterilised bottles, round bottles are best for containing the build up of pressure, but as I only have these square ones, I’ll just be sure to burp them more often. 😅🫧

I’ll store it for around 3-6 days at room temperature and then just pop and enjoy! 😊

My ingredients:

2 litres of filtered water

180g Unrefined Sugar

54g of grated ginger

The juice of 2 lemons (optional)

1/2 cup of strained ginger bug

So what flavour fermented soda should I make next? 🤔🫙