04-29-2010, 12:17 AM
05-02-2010, 02:22 AM
Not too bad.
I used:
2oz of ginger, grated.
1 cup of cane sugar.
the juice of one lemon.
the ez caps yeast
20hrs later the bottle was hard, i put it in the fridge and cooled it.
i think more ginger and no lemon would make this even better.
maybe when i do it again i will make a simple syrup with the ginger steeped instead of just dumping everything in the 2liter.
I used:
2oz of ginger, grated.
1 cup of cane sugar.
the juice of one lemon.
the ez caps yeast
20hrs later the bottle was hard, i put it in the fridge and cooled it.
i think more ginger and no lemon would make this even better.
maybe when i do it again i will make a simple syrup with the ginger steeped instead of just dumping everything in the 2liter.
05-02-2010, 04:07 AM
Much better with the added ginger, the recipe from the instructions never "did it" for me. LOL. i'm from the south and we have Buffalo Rock, so i like it real gingery. plus i figured most people used it for the alcohol.
07-19-2010, 10:06 PM
I prefer Ginger Beer over Ginger Ale, so I tried 1 cup sugar, about 2.5 tbsp of lemon juice, and about 1/4 cup of ginger juice (I live near a Chinese market, so ginger is cheap for me). This was MUCH too sweet, so I did a second batch using 1/2 cup of sugar, and the rest the same. This tasted similar to a strong ginger ale. If I make it again soon, I'll use as much ginger as I can get, and 1/2 cup of sugar. I like my drinks less sweet than most.