Real Ginger Beer Recipes

This section is dedicated to recipes for real ginger beer. We suggest that you use these as a starting point and adjust them to fit your own tastes. We're also interested in hearing from people with fermented ginger beer recipes, so if you have one, let us know and we may publish it here.

Zinger Ginger Beer
Ingredients
• Ginger – fresh root ginger (a couple of fat thumb-sized pieces or thereabouts) or you can use around half a teaspoon of powdered ginger instead.
• Around a litre of filtered water or unchlorinated mineral water
• 100g sugar – organic, unrefined
• Juice of ½ a lemon
• Optional: pinch of cayenne chili powder or juice a little fresh chili in the same way that you juiced your ginger. Please wash your hands very carefully if you are juicing chili!

Method
• If you’re using fresh root ginger then start by preparing this - if using a juicer, peel and juice the ginger. If using a blender, blend the peeled, chopped ginger with a little filtered water until it is a pulpy consistency. If using a grater, you can grate the peeled ginger to get it to a pulp. You now need to squeeze this pulp to extract the juice to use in your ginger beer. This can be extracted by pressing the pulp through a sieve or a muslin cloth. For a stronger flavour you can wrap the squeezed pulp in a muslin square and secure it so it can be added to the jar. Again, experiment to find the balance of flavour you like best. If you don’t want the ginger pulp in your brew, just stick it on your compost heap or in your food recycling bin if you have one.
• Add the water to the jar containing your GBP.
• Then add the ginger juice (or powdered ginger), sugar and lemon juice (and chili if using) to the jar.
• You need to have about a third empty at the top of the jar to allow for expansion.
• You can then place a muslin or tea towel over the top of the jar and secure it with an elastic band or string.
• Now you’ll want to leave it for a few days, tasting it every so often. When it starts to develop a nice flavour but still has a sweet taste, then it’s ready to bottle.


You will receive full instructions and a hard copy of this recipe with your Ginger Beer Plant purchase.