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    This document provides instructions for making real ginger beer using a ginger beer plant (GBP). The GBP is not actually a plant, but a symbiotic culture of yeast and bacteria that produces the signature flavors of real ginger beer. The instructions explain that a tablespoon of GBP is added to water, sugar, ginger, and lemon juice, then left to ferment for 5 days. The fermented ginger beer can then be bottled and will be ready to drink within a few days once the yeast has carbonated it. Maintaining a culture of GBP allows one to continuously make new batches of real, artisanal ginger beer.

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    This document provides instructions for making real ginger beer using a ginger beer plant (GBP). The GBP is not actually a plant, but a symbiotic culture of yeast and bacteria that produces the signature flavors of real ginger beer. The instructions explain that a tablespoon of GBP is added to water, sugar, ginger, and lemon juice, then left to ferment for 5 days. The fermented ginger beer can then be bottled and will be ready to drink within a few days once the yeast has carbonated it. Maintaining a culture of GBP allows one to continuously make new batches of real, artisanal ginger beer.

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    This document provides instructions for making real ginger beer using a ginger beer plant (GBP). The GBP is not actually a plant, but a symbiotic culture of yeast and bacteria that produces the signature flavors of real ginger beer. The instructions explain that a tablespoon of GBP is added to water, sugar, ginger, and lemon juice, then left to ferment for 5 days. The fermented ginger beer can then be bottled and will be ready to drink within a few days once the yeast has carbonated it. Maintaining a culture of GBP allows one to continuously make new batches of real, artisanal ginger beer.

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    This document provides instructions for making real ginger beer using a ginger beer plant (GBP). The GBP is not actually a plant, but a symbiotic culture of yeast and bacteria that produces the signature flavors of real ginger beer. The instructions explain that a tablespoon of GBP is added to water, sugar, ginger, and lemon juice, then left to ferment for 5 days. The fermented ginger beer can then be bottled and will be ready to drink within a few days once the yeast has carbonated it. Maintaining a culture of GBP allows one to continuously make new batches of real, artisanal ginger beer.

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    How to make real ginger beer | Life and style | The Guardian

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    How to make real ginger beer


    Unlike anything you'll nd in the shops, real ginger beer is made by a symbiotic pair of micro-organisms
    John Wright
    Wednesday 29 June 2011 04.00EDT

    or reasons known only to herself my daughter keeps giant African land snails as pets. They do nothing
    except eat, get bigger and produce ospring at a rate sucient to supply the entire country, should the
    country want them. Unfortunately you can't even give the blasted things away and a distressing culling
    regime has had to be introduced (and, no, I am not going to do this).

    I have been here before. Years ago I would frequently be oered "ginger beer plants" (GBP) by hollow-eyed owners,
    desperate to nd new homes for a burgeoning population. Having once suered the guilt-ridden burden of
    responsibility these "pets" entail, I would invariably refuse. Unfortunately I was not alone in my refusal. The GBP
    has now suered a sad decline and can be dicult to nd these days.
    But what is a GBP? Simply put, it is a jelly-like substance used to make a mildly alcoholic ginger beer. What it
    emphatically is not, is a plant. Its true nature was discovered by an impressively moustachioed nineteenth century
    naturalist called Harry Marshall Ward. After prolonged and commendably systematic study he discovered it to be a
    mixture of yeasts and bacteria about 20 species altogether. However, only two of the constituents were essential
    in the making of a good brew one was a yeast and one a bacterium.
    The yeast was Saccharomyces pyriformis (meaning pear shaped sugar fungus) and the bacterium was
    Brevibacterium vermiforme (oxymoronically - short bacteria shaped like a worm). The bacteria form a jellied
    mesh in which the yeast cells reside. But they were not just cohabiting they formed a symbiotic relationship as do
    fungi and algae to form lichens. The yeast excrete alcohol and the bacterium consume it, allowing the yeast, which
    can tolerate only low alcohol concentrations, to continue to thrive. Several other such relationships exist, notably
    "ker" which has long been used to ferment milk.
    The ginger beer produced by the GBP is "real" ginger beer, having a subtlety of avour mostly lacking in one made
    from ordinary yeast and entirely lacking in the non-alcoholic stu you buy in the shops. Flavours are dicult to
    describe and I can only suggest "creamy toee" to give you an idea.
    Like many homebrews it is fascinating to watch the fermentation process. The little jelly "crystals", buoyed by CO2
    oat up and down in the jug to lava lamp eect, albeit it a rather murky one. You will end up with more GBP than
    you started with and this is where your problems begin what to do with this exotic living organism that looks to
    you for love and attention. Well I am sure you will be able to give some away, but mostly you should keep it so you
    can make more and more ginger beer. After all you are going to need lashings of it.
    I am grateful to my friend and GBP guru, Tim, for reintroducing me to this strange organism.

    Real ginger beer


    Ginger beer plant - about a tablespoonful. Remember that you cannot make this from ordinary yeast you have to
    nd one. They are sometimes available online.
    250g sugar
    2 litres water (should be chlorine free a large pinch of ascorbic acid (vitamin C), or the juice of a lemon will
    remove the chlorine if you are unsure)
    teaspoon cream of tartar (this stabilises the acid level but is not essential)
    Juice of 1 lemon
    2 or 3 inches of ginger, peeled and grated (dried ginger powder is an alternative)

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    How to make real ginger beer | Life and style | The Guardian

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    The GBP is a pretty resilient creature but it is safest to make sure everything is clean in the kitchen. Tie the grated
    ginger in a small piece of muslin. Place it (or dried ginger) with the sugar, lemon juice, cream of tartar and water in
    a large jug. Stir until the sugar has dissolved. Add the GBP. Cover with a cloth xed in place with an elastic band, or
    just a lid if there is one.
    Leave for about ve days (or until it tastes just a little sweeter than you would like the nished product to be) then
    carefully pour into plastic pop bottles or swing top bottles using a ne sieve and a funnel. (You will nd a larger
    GBP in the sieve than you started with. Remove the muslin then rinse the GBP in fresh water. Use it to make
    another batch). It is ready to drink within two or three days, though a week is zzier. The low activity of the yeast
    and small amount of sugar used will ensure that explosive levels of CO2 are not reached, but it may be worth
    checking a test bottle every now and then by loosening the lid just to make sure. Chilling in the fridge will stop any
    further fermentation if you are happy with the level of zz and sweetness.
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