Ginger Beer

To make a ginger beer plant, and your first 16 pints of ginger beer.. By far the best way to make ginger beer is to cultivate a ginger beer plant. With a plant you can carry on ad infinitum! Put the yeast into a sterile glass jar big enough to hold rather more than a pint. Pour in the pint of water, and follow with the level tablespoons of ginger and sugar. Cover with a clean cloth. Beginning the next day,Feed once a day one heaped teaspoonful of ginger and sugar. By the middle of the second week the base liquid for your ginger beer will be ready to syphon off. Keep the sediment if you want to make more and more, because you can divide into two jars, and start all over again! To turn your base liquid into 16 pints ginger beer dissolve 2 lbs sugar in 2 pts. boiling water and add the juice of the lemons, pour this liquid into a 2 gallon sterilised plastic bucket, add one gallon cold water and stir well, Stir in the previously syphoned base liquid, top up with cold water until you have 2 gallons, and stir the whole mixture thoroughly. The mix can now be poured into it's final bottles, where it needs to stand at room temperature for several hours before corking. Do not jam the corks in too tightly. If the ginger beer turns more lively, it is better for the corks to pop, than the bottle to burst! It is probably best to 2"-3" headroom, and to use strong bottles!