Homemade Ginger Beer
"This ginger beer is very spicy. Adjust the amount of lime juice and sugar to your taste."
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 4
- Serves:
-
16
ingredients
- 2 lbs ginger, cut into 1 inch pieces
- 1 gallon boiling water
- 1 1⁄2 cups freshly squeezed lime juice (about 8 limes)
- 1 1⁄2 cups superfine sugar
directions
- Place ginger in a food processor, and process until finely chopped.
- Transfer to a large pot, and add boiling water.
- Allow to stand for 1 hour.
- Drain with a fine sieve lined with a double thickness of damp cheesecloth.
- Discard solids.
- Add lime juice and sugar, and stir to dissolve.
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Reviews
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I like it sweet and spicy and this certainly was spicy. I also left it to soak overnight, like Sharon did. I doubled the sugar, though, using 1 1/2 cup brown sugar in addition to the 1 1/2 cup white sugar in recipe. I also added about 25 drops of Angostura Bitters, trying to recreate the flavor of some Jamaican ginger beer I've had in past. Requires some more tinkering for us, I will try with all brown sugar next time, but generally, this is a very nice and easy fizzless ginger beer. One could add some fizzy water, I suppose, it's potent enough for diluting. -
I love ginger brew, so made this, leaving the ginger to soak in the water overnight to get all the ginger taste out of it. I love to mix it with a little pineapple juice. Thanks!
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I love to cook, to feed people and to experiment. Unfortunately I have a very limited audience, so most of my creations are reserved for me alone. My BF is a sort of picky eater and all of my favorites he dislikes, so I'm learning how to get around lots of ingredients. Like mushrooms (so sad), tomatoes and onions... who cooks without onions? In this one way, it's almost a good thing that our schedules allow for only 3 meals a weeks together :-)
