How to brew your own.

The following entry contains the intructions on brewing your own ginger beer with a slight alcoholic content.
There are two ways of making ginger beer. The first consists of shredding up ginger root and boiling it up with water and sugar. The second involves making a ginger 'plant' which can be reused time and time again. This makes a batch once a week.
The brewing process mentioned in this entry is the second one.

Equipment and Ingredients.

Equipment.

• 1 jar with lid¹.
• 1 pint sized measuring jug.
• Several 2 litres Plastic bottles².
• Teaspoons.
• A large pan.
• Fine Cloth³.

Ingredients

• Dried Ginger.
• Dried yeast⁴.
• Sugar.
• Juice of four lemons.
• Water.

Making the Plant.

The plant is a mixture of dried ginger, yeast, sugar and water. This creates a yeast culture.

In the jar, place one teaspoon of dried yeast, two teaspoons of dried ginger, four teaspoons of sugar and a pint (600ml) of cold water. Stir and keep at room temperature.

Feed the plant every day with two teaspoons of dried ginger and four teaspoons of sugar. Stir after feeding.

The plant is ready after one week.

Making the ginger beer.

In the large pan, place 1kg (2lb) of sugar and 2 pints of boiling water. Dissolve the sugar. To this add the juice of the four lemons.

Strain the contents of the jar, the plant, through the cloth into the pan. Place the solid portion of the plant to one side for a moment. Add 14 pints of room temperature water. Stir and bottle. Fill the bottles about 7/8 full as you need to allow for expansion. Squeeze the air out of the bottles, this way the bottles won't explode under pressure from their contents. Store the bottles in a safe place at room temperature.

Leave the bottles for 3-4 weeks to 'brew'.

Back to the plant. Discard half the solid or give to someone so they may start their own. Place the remaining half in a clean jar with a pint of water and continue to feed as above.

Another entry you may want to try is A593363 as the process is similar.