V1

Ginger beer recipe attempt one:

150ml White Sugar 30ml Brown Sugar Lemon Zest ~ 1/2 teaspoon Juice 1 Lemon 2x1cm fresh Gratted Ginger 1/2 teaspoon bakers Yeast ~1.2L NZnatural Water

Bottle Squeezed to get rid of ~60% air and reduce explosion risk. Next day bottle was tight and base rounded so was placed in fridge to cool down for drinking. Tried it ~12hours after making it fizzy, but not very gingery, strong yeast flavour, second batch may be better will try ginger syrup for V3.

V2

1.5 Thumb Ginger Grated 1 lemon Juice + Zest 1.2L Water 1 cup Sugar half white half brown

Will be leaving it to sit for a couple of days before adding yeast and sugar.

Insanely fizzy, was left with the lid loose for the first day before tighting it. When opening it it took ~10mins for the fiz to die down to the point where the lid could be removed. Flavour is very weak though there is a bit of burn in it.

V3

V3 Syrup 60ml Sugar 5 lemons 4 thumbs fresh ginger 1teaspoon ground ginger + ~200ml water

Simmered ~30mins Crushed Ginger again

V3 GB

Added 150ml Syrup to 1.2L water Added 1/3rd teaspoon Yeast 1 Cup sugar 2/3’s white 1/3rd Brown Capped bottle loosely

18/11/2008 Nice, slightly fruity flavour, not too yeasty, still lacking a bit in the ginger bite. Has a slight gingery burn as an aftertaste though. Rather enjoyable will have to work on this variant

V4

Added 150ml Syrup to 1.2L water 1 thumb finely chopped ginger 1 Cup sugar 2/3’s white 1/3rd Brown 200ml of fulid from the GBPlant

GBPlant V1

1 tree picked lemon and a teaspoon fresh ginger in NZnatural water left to sit near my window plenty of light. Water had gone cloudy after a couple of days. Removed lemon and added ginger + sugar. Result is plenty of sediment on the bottom of the jar. Feed it twice during the week.

Possible alternative recipies

• 2 tablespoons of cardamom pods (or 1 teaspoon seeds)
• 2 sticks of cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon black peppercorns
• 2 teaspoons whole cloves
• 1 teaspoon fennel seeds
• 1 teaspoon licorice root
• dash cream of tarter
• dash cayenne pepper
• 1/4 cup ginger juice or half cup finely chopped ginger
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 gallon water
• yeast