I'm not sure if anyone has ever heard of a mixed drink called a dark and stormy; made of ginger beer and dark rum, very good. Anyways you can't get real Caribbean style ginger beer here so I decided to make some.
Now I know that it isn't beer in the traditional sense; and most store bought ginger beer has 0% abv. But I received a book for Christmas about different fermented beverages (keifir, kombucha, sake, etc.) and I plan on doing small batches of a lot of them.
Here is my ginger beer recipe that I made by mixing a few recipes I found together:
~1/2 lbs peeled, minced organic ginger root
3 limes juiced, 1 lime zest
1/4 lbs organic cane sugar
1/4 lbs organic brown sugar
4 whole cloves
1 small cinnamon stick
1/4 tsp (heaping) black peppercorns
Pinch of salt
Pinch of ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp yeast (US 05)
Just over 2L of water
1. Boil water, reduce heat, add ginger and cool for 30 min.
2. Take off heat, add sugar, spices and lime and ingredients.
3. Let cool to pitching temp. then add yeast.
4. After fermentation stops strain liquid into storage container.
There it is, feel free to tell me what you think. I started an old clay growler full (~3L) on Sunday so hopefully it will be ready to sample this weekend.
I'm not sure if I should do any secondary conditioning with this. What do you guys think?