Ginger Beer Experiment

Goodness I have not meant to leave it so long since my last post... I have terribly busy doing nothing very much crafty or experimental! In fact I have mostly been going swimming a lot, and it doesn't seem to leave much time for anything else after work.


I did manage to get round to bottling up some elderberry wine from last year mind. A total of six and a half bottles. Not all are visible as they have been drunken haha!










Two weeks ago I bought something very exciting from eBay, I waited patiently for it to arrive... it was a small packet of dry ginger beer plant! I had been doing a little internet searching for a ginger beer recipe last month and was coming up short, but I was determine to make some as nothing much is in season and I have 8 empty demi-johns. I mentioned it to my dad and he said they use to use a ginger beer plant when he was a kid.... now before I checked good old wikipedia I was extremely confused as to what this actually was! Its simply a yeast culture found naturally on ginger and since getting my hands on some I have fed it sugar all week and then made it up with water, lemon juice and more sugar into one demi-jonh.

 So there it is a gallon of lashings of ginger beer!

Well in  another 5 days that is... next weekend I shall be making two gallons (as you split the culture into two and feed it more), will be experimenting with making a dry version me thinks.

This weekend is going to be dedicated to some crafting, projects to finish include my sock Cheshire cat and two half made monkeys. Projects to start are too numerous to list but hopefully posting on here will get my act together a little!

See you next week (hope the ginger beer hasn't exploded by then!).