Ginger ale or, in another way, non-alcoholic home ginger beer is a wonderful cool and tonic drink. Buy a ready-made drink in the store is problematic, so it's best to cook it at home. It perfectly quenches thirst and is useful for digestion. Let's consider with you how to cook ginger ale.
The recipe for ginger ale
Ingredients:
- fresh ginger root - 150 g;
- carbonated mineral water - 3 liters;
- sugar - 4 tbsp. spoons;
- lemon - 3 pieces;
- fresh mint - to taste.
Preparation
So, to make ginger ale, take the root of ginger, peel it, rub it on a large grater and, without draining the secreted juice, sprinkle it with sugar. Next, add lemon zest, thoroughly mix everything and crush it from above with something heavy for about 20 seconds. After that, gently pour the juice squeezed out of lemons, pour mineral sparkling water and allow the mixture to infuse for 15 minutes. Filter the finished drink, take a sample: if it seems to you that it turned out to be too sour - add a little more sugar, and if on the contrary sweet - we dilute the lemon juice. Now we pour ginger beer, cooked at home, on high glass beakers and decorate, if desired, with branches of fresh mint.
Ginger beer - recipe
Ingredients:
- granulated sugar - 1 item;
- fresh ginger root - 100 g;
- lemon - 1 piece;
- Granulated baking yeast - 0,5 tsp.
- fresh water - 2, 5 liters.
Preparation
We take a plastic three-liter bottle from under the mineral water, mine, dry it, insert a funnel into the neck and through it carefully, so as not to spill, fall asleep granular baker's yeast. Fresh root of ginger, rub on a small grater, mix with the juice of one lemon and rub it with a spoon until a homogeneous gruel is obtained.
We add the remaining water, close the bottle with a lid and carefully shake its contents. We shake the bottle until the yeast and sugar completely dissolve. We remove the bottle in a dark warm place for about 30 hours. The readiness of homemade beer with ginger can be checked by simply squeezing the bottle, if a dent is formed - the drink is not yet ready. Before drinking, cool the ale and open it slowly, gradually releasing the gas.
For lovers of non-alcoholic ginger drinks, we recommend trying out a recipe for ginger tea .