Ginger Beer Old Fashioned
Any combination of lemons and limes equalling 10-12 total.
Ginger beer old fashioned. Boil 2 quarts of water then turn off the heat. 8 lbs of sugar. So the Old Fashioned Ginger Beer Bug Kit was born.
We measured our ingredients downsized the recipe to fit in a preserving jar and did some trial runs. Go ahead take a swig. That just about covers it for everything you need for making a traditional ginger beer.
5-6 ozs of ginger root sliced very thin. Steep ginger puree with honey or sugars near 160-180F for 10 minutes. Basically just boil water put sugar in it to dissolve while stirring ginger yeast and lemon juice in it.
5 gallons of water. Try a combination of 34 lemons to 14 limes or 23 to 13. Dec 28 2005 Old-fashioned Ginger beer.
Then just let it ferment for a few days. The limes will give a bit of sparkle and body to the flavor. Aug 23 2012 Chill filtered water in refrigerator ahead of time.
Grate the ginger into the water and then add 1 12 cups of sugar and stir to dissolve. Made with pure cane sugar and just the right amount of refreshing ginger flavor this ginger ale is something else. The taste was a trip down memory lane and unsurprisingly the debut of this product at the Ngatimoti fair in early 2008 was a runaway success.
More lemons than limes tastes better to me. After the tea has cooled s train the grated ginger out of the new ginger tea. This will be food for the ginger beer.
Puree ginger in blender with 2 cups of the chilled water while reserving rest of water for top off.