Ginger Beer Plant

squeaky

MDUK wrote:

thanks, i did a search before i posted and didn't notice one on this subject.

A long memory helps

Your eye may well have skipped over it since it mentions "plant" in the title and not "beer"...

..it was only because I knew it was here somewhere that I found it.

Glad to help, anyway

ziggy2004

Does anybody have a recipe for gingerbeer?? I am loving the stuff at the moment (must be my first real pregnancy craving) but got a shock when i read the ingredients i also found some organic stuff but that is just too expensive.

TIA

x Anne

newleaf

Here you are:
I've been asked by the board guide to remove the recipe and provide a link to it instead to avoid any difficulties with copyright. I apologise, I did not realise the recipe was copied from the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A827426

Lovely!

ziggy2004

Thanks i am going to give this a go!!!!

squeaky

There's another thread on ginger plants that might be worth a read too:-


Ginger plant

newleaf

squeaky wrote:

There's another thread on ginger plants that might be worth a read too:-


Ginger plant

This is where I got the above recipe from, posted by MDUK - I didn't realise it was originally a BBC recipe.

Stratford_Bill

The supermarkets (Tesco certainly) do bottles of ginger cordial. You top it up with carbonated water, and you've got your favourite drink.

tim_n

Looking to make the alcoholic version of ginger beer and my plant is well underway. Apparently I have to strain the contents of my plant into my pan however I'm not sure what to use to strain it.

I'm looking at purchasing some cheese cloth from ebay at about £2.80. Can I use something else like stockings or similar? if not and cheesecloth is the way to go, can I wash it in the washing machine to reuse it?

Here's the receipe from hg2g: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A634664

Seakay

J cloth is a good substitute for cheese cloth; also, it can be washed and used more than once.

tim_n

ah, a cunning idea = D and substantially cheaper than cheese cloth. Though will it turn my ginger beer blue? ;-)