GINGER BEER

Steps:

• -------TO GET BUG WORKING-------.
• Mix the yeast, ground ginger, 2 tspns of sugar and lukewarm water together in a large glass jar.
• Cover with a cloth (the sort of material that you would use to strain jelly through as the bug needs to breathe).
• Let stand for 24 hours.
• After this feed the bug every day for 10 days with 1 tspn of ground ginger and 1 tspn of sugar.
• ---------TO MAKE THE BEER----------.
• Put 1 litre of the water and the sugar in a saucpan.
• Heat gently while stirring until the sugar dissolves.
• Take off the heat and add the rest of the water and the lemon juice.
• Without disturbing the sediment, strain the ginger beer bug liquid through 2 layers of scalded muslin.
• Add this liquid to the sugared water.
• Pour the mixture into clean bottles, cap tightly and leave to stand for 2 days, or until it starts to fizz.
• After this, it must be kept in a cool place or the fridge to prevent the tops blowing.
• I use a sterilizing powder obtained from home brew shops to sterilize my bottles.
• After making the beer divide the sediment in the jar into two.
• You now have 2 bugs to feed and can double the beer recipe.
• As you double the bugs each time you increase the number of bottles you can produce.
• After all available surfaces are covered with bug jars and you are swamped with beer you can give the extra bugs away to get others on the treadmill.