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Found this on my teenagers presents search, thought it might be useful :)

http://www.vurt.co.uk/Articles/GingerBeer.html

Looks easy enough! thanks for the link, I'll try it next weekend

I also appreciate the link. I will try it this way, as the last time I made ginger beer some of the bottles exploded.

I'm making up a kit to give my brother for xmas. mum will kill me if it explodes

This looks like a great easy recipe that I can get the kids involved with - going to try it at the weekend! Thanks for the link!

Cool! All I need now is to grow some limes, make my own rum and figure out what's in angastora bitters and I can make as many 'Dark and Stormy' cocktails as I want! Yum!

pomegranate wrote:I also appreciate the link. I will try it this way, as the last time I made ginger beer some of the bottles exploded.

As with any drinks fermenting air on the side of caution and get thick bottles - You can get them at the local home brew shop if you have one. Otherwise save some of the thicker bottles that you use up, I have a few thicker bottles left over from parties cream sherry seems pretty thick.

Don't shake it either, my mum made it when I was a kid and I shook it once; the whole bottle full ended up on the celing.

Andy Hamilton wrote:

pomegranate wrote:I also appreciate the link. I will try it this way, as the last time I made ginger beer some of the bottles exploded.

As with any drinks fermenting air on the side of caution and get thick bottles - You can get them at the local home brew shop if you have one. Otherwise save some of the thicker bottles that you use up, I have a few thicker bottles left over from parties cream sherry seems pretty thick.

Don't shake it either, my mum made it when I was a kid and I shook it once; the whole bottle full ended up on the celing.

EEK!

Well I am trying this today so I will let you know if I get exploded on, wish me luck! I think I am going to need it now!

I made mine using a kit from Hawkins Bazaar.
It had powdered ginger and yeast in it.

You boiled some water first, then put some in a sterilised bowl (don't remember the exaclt amounts). Then you fed it every day with a spoonful of ginger, a spoon of yeast and a spoon of sugar.

After 7 days, you them filtered it and added more water. Then after another 7 days, you bottle it.

I bought 12 grolsch style bottles from a local homebrew supplier, that way i can use them again and i don't have to get a corker/topper and buy more stuff.

You then leave the bottles for a week, then open and drink!

Yumy!

When i'm at home, i'll see if i can dig out the instructions and write them out properly.

Im making ginger beer the way Fee has said. I have to feed the powered ginger and yeast every day with sugar into a jam jar. The instructions, tho, dont state whether I need to leave the lid on or off the jam jar - any ideas please? Thanks

can't you put it in recycled plastic pop bottles?
surely that would be safer?

thanks for posting the recipe....I love ginger beer

The instructions tell me to put it in a jam jar half full of water and to feed for 10 days with 1 tsp sugar and ginger every day. Then I add more water after that. Could have prob done it a different way but thought easier to just try to follow instructions. Personally cant stand the stuff, just making it for my hubby - its the only thing he misses from UK - bottles of fiery ginger beer lol

OK my instructions for making ginger beer told me to fill the bottles to 3 inches from the top & leave for 2 hours before screwing on the lid - 10 days later its ready for drinking. I bottled it 7 days ago as per instructions. The bottles are very tight! Now, how come loads of liquid is missing from the bottles? There is a clear mark on all of them with the scummy top stuff where the original top-up mark was and then theres the liquid - I would say Ive lost at least a quarter from each bottle. Theres no liquid on the floor and no explosions. I dont think theres a leak as the bottles wouldnt be as pumped up as they are. So where the ginger beer gone?

Build up of pressure compressing the liquid?

Build up of pressure making the botles expand?

Combination of the 2 might make up for your lost quarter if there is no spillage.

Hadnt thought of that - thanks. Gonna let hubby open them, Im gonna stand well back lol