Aim: I want to find out how to make Ginger Beer.
Equipment: Plastic bottle, Bowls, Funnel, Fine sieve, lemon swisher, knife, tablespoon, cheese grater, cheese cloth, heatproof container
Ingredients: Ginger peeled, Sugar, Fresh lemon juice, Yeast, Water.
Instructions: Put first measure of sugar in warm water to dissolve, add yeast and stir. Place in warm place to start working.
Finely grate or slice rind from 2 lemons and place in a heatproof container with the 1 cup of sugar and the dried ginger. Pour over 1 cup of boiling water and leave to steep for 10 minutes. Strain into 1.5 L plastic bottle in which the ginger beer will be made. Top up bottle with cool water to near top so that final temp is approx. body temp. Add yeast to bottle as soon as it shows signs of working, ie. it foams. Cap bottle tightly. Mix thoroughly and put in a warm place. Leave until bottle becomes undentable. Depending on the yeast this can take anything from 12 hours to 3 days, but best to check regularly, as I guess there is a risk of explosion with this! Refrigerate until thoroughly chilled and OPEN WITH GREAT CARE!
Results:
What is the stuff at the bottom:
when I looked at the bottom I saw the yeast that had eaten up all the sugar to make the alcohol and its was like sludge.
What does it smell like:
When i smelt the Ginger Beer it had a very strong ginger smell with also a bit of a sugary smell
What does it taste like: When i tasted the Ginger Beer it tasted very sour and gingery, the yeast has eaten all the sugar so it didn't have much of a sweet taste.
What happens if you shake it:
When i shook the bottle fizzy bubbly fluffy stuff was at the top of where the Ginger Beer Finished.
Discussion
What is yeast? Yeast is a living fungus that likes to eat things like sugar and the stuff in bread.
What did the yeast do to the Ginger Beer? The yeast ate the sugar which then made alcohol and carbon dioxide What are some good uses of yeast? Bread, Mar mite, other alcohols and others
What are some bad uses of yeast? Athletes foot, fungus and other things
What are some interesting questions that I would like to find out about this experiment?
Why does the Ginger beer not rote: because of the lemons which helps it not to rote.
Why does the Ginger beer get stronger with the taste when u leave it longer:Yeast in the beer, if still active, could be cleaning up some byproducts they didn't get to during fermentation. High Alcohols can improve in flavor after some time in cool, dark storage
Yeast is a living fungus that likes to eat things like sugar and the stuff in bread.
The yeast ate the sugar which then made alcohol and carbon dioxide.
Yeast makes good things for bread Mar mite, other alcohols and others.
Bad uses of yeast is athletes foot, fungus and other things.I would like to find out why Ginger beer does not rote. It doesn't rote because of the lemons which also helps it taste good. I would also like to find out why ginger beer taste stronger while you leave it for a long time. Yeast in the beer, if still active, could be cleaning up some byproducts they didn't get to during the fermentation. High Alcohols can improve in flavor after some time in cool, dark storage.
