Ginger Beer Recipe (Non-Alcoholic) 1 large knob of ginger 1 cup of sugar 1/2 cup of honey 1 cup of water 3 - 4 cloves of cardamom 1 star anise 2 - 3 whole cloves 2 lemons 1/4 teaspoon of instant yeast aka bakers yeast 8 cups of water Grate the large knob of ginger and cook in a pot with the sugar, honey, water, cardamom, star anise, and cloves. Boil on medium or 45 minutes. Strain the syrup and let cool. Once cooled, mix together the syrup, juice of 2 lemons, instant yeast, and water into a large container. Divide the liquid into pop top bottles and allow them ferment over the course of 1 week. Once they have fermented, move them over to the fridge and enjoy when you want a cold carbonated beverage. Shop this reel here: 32 oz Fermentation Bottles: amzn.to/4abDBbs Dehydrator: amzn.to/3x5suly Cambro Contianer:amzn.to/4c84yNb

@spudmadethis

Ай бұрын

Do you burp them?

@dominofalling2038

Ай бұрын

Hi, I've always wondered why doesn’t the ginger fermentation produce alcohol? Thank you.

@agiesafitri

Ай бұрын

won't honey ruined if you heat it?

@lioness6853

6 күн бұрын

Uuummm... We use sugar, water and yeast when we make moonshine..🙂

Been making ginger beer for at least 20 years. A little champagne yeast works. I like a jalapeno when I steep the ginger. If you don't want to wait for it to carbonate, just add a bit of ginger syrup to seltzer. I have a Soda Stream and add to that.

@brendenowen2609

3 ай бұрын

Champagne yeast is what I’ve been using and it’s great, very complementary flavor. Bakers yeast kinda has a bread flavor

@dianapennepacker6854

2 ай бұрын

Can you make lemon soda doing the same thing? I was never quite sure if ginger was the important part. Or if yeast did all the work. I am drinking fever dream lemon sparkling water. Like a sprite with a kick. I also enjoyed their other ginger beer product. Yet I need more kick! I don't know how people make something crispier or hit ceterian parts of the mouth. Was thinking about trying my own soon. Maybe just injecting more c02 into their soda will do the trick.

@Russel.Idrive

5 күн бұрын

Hey man can I email or dm you? I am new to homemade soda and I have few questions

@Russel.Idrive

5 күн бұрын

How can I make my brewings to not pop and mess my desk?

I tried this recipe (quadrupled because I wanted lots) and it is fantastic. I used bread machine yeast (not sure if that made a difference) and it was carbonated and ready to drink in 4 days. I left them out for another 4 days before refrigerating and they were even better. This is so easy and straightforward I would recommend for any beginner to the world of brewing/fermenting.

@queeniegreengrass3513

2 ай бұрын

Is it alcoholic like all the comments are saying?

@terrandel

2 ай бұрын

@@queeniegreengrass3513 when you use yeast to brew anything it will have alcohol, so it's important to remember that. That. Being said, as long as you don't put too much yeast, or brew for too long, the level of alcohol is so low it would be on par with non-alcoholic beer. Which is to say, it's so low as to be negligible, even for kids.

@terrandel

2 ай бұрын

@@queeniegreengrass3513 it's also worth noting that I tried another recipe at 4x the recipe, and I also 4x the yeast, which yielded more alcohol in the same amount of time. I tried again with 4x the recipe but only 2x the yeast and it tasted much better with no detectable alcohol (less than 1% if my hydrometer is correct)

@queeniegreengrass3513

2 ай бұрын

@@terrandel interesting, thanks. was it equally carbonated?

@terrandel

2 ай бұрын

@@queeniegreengrass3513 yes, less yeast still yields the carbonation you need :)

Yeast will always convert sugar or for that matter any carbohydrate into alcohol and CO2.

@cooking_bakingg

4 ай бұрын

That’s what I was thinking, he said it was non alcoholic but fermented the sugar

@priestesslucy3299

4 ай бұрын

​@@cooking_bakingg low enough alcohol to serve to kids in moderation, but yes there is a bit of alcohol in there.

@BRIAN_IVERSON_20

4 ай бұрын

you mean like literally every soft drink, all of them just have to be under a certain amount of alcohol to be sold

@titanlurch

4 ай бұрын

@@BRIAN_IVERSON_20 Soft drinks are artificially carbonated as are many industrially made beers.

@Lemonz1989

4 ай бұрын

@@BRIAN_IVERSON_20 No, regular sodas are close to being sterile. They contain no yeast to produce alcohol.

Someone explain to me how this is non alcoholic. Yeast + Sugar + Liquid = fermentation (alcohol)

@erin9868

4 ай бұрын

I'm trying to figure that out, too. This just seems like a recipe for normal ginger beer.

@clearmist1

4 ай бұрын

Maybe the lack of time?

@stickyprickle

4 ай бұрын

It’s is mildly alcoholic

@cybermewt

4 ай бұрын

Ginger beer can go from non -alcoholic (

@Mikkogram

3 ай бұрын

​@@clearmist1 s. Cerevisiea needs about 1-2 days to ferment Saccharose

Oh can we please have root beer next. Been trying to get my husband off the 3 PM cola for years!!! Seems like RB might be a good transition.

I effen love his recipes and how he wastes nothing!!!

I will definitely be giving this a go

@Nony1_1

3 ай бұрын

Sooooo How did it turn out?

You can make it with just Ginger sugar and water, put 8oz of fresh ginger through a cheese grater, add it to a gallon carboy with 8 oz of sugar and top it off with water. Let it ferment until it's your desired level of residual sweetness and then bottle it to carbonate. No yeast required

@brendenowen2609

3 ай бұрын

How long does it take for it to ferment? The yeast in the ginger is fermenting the sugar?

@osric1730

3 ай бұрын

@@brendenowen2609 Or whatever yeast happens to wander in there. There has to be some yeast in there one way or another or it won't ferment.

Interesting. Where I live, the same technique used to produse the drink, called "kvas". Although dried and even chared pieces of bread used as a base. It comes out teasting great and tames the thirst perfectly, but has too many calories))

@NygaardBushcraft

3 ай бұрын

I like Kvas a lot.. sadly its not available in my country right now.. but I can make my own

Yum, as a kid my falmily made it with ground ginger. Fresh ginger would be great to try.

@terrandel

3 ай бұрын

Fresh ginger gives it that bite you find with store bought ginger beers. Ground ginger is much milder IMO - I tried it because of this comment, and ground ginger is cheaper for me - it wasn't as good as fresh (but what is right?) but it was still good! so this is a great option for anyone who cannot get fresh ginger or wants to store it long term. Ground ginger also has a much cloudier result with more 'dust' at the bottom of the bottles. Next to try is dried ginger chunks!

I may try this in one of my idle 5 gallon homebrew kegs. I think ginger beer would be very refreshing in lste fall through winter when working outside in the cooler weather.

You really only need ginger and sugar, did it last week.

@user-Aaron-

4 ай бұрын

Did it carbonate? I feel like the honey and lemon are mostly for flavour (lemon maybe for pH?) but I'd suspect you'd need some sort of organism involved to create CO2.

@finntheraven

4 ай бұрын

@@user-Aaron- There is an organism if you make a "ginger bug", which is like a sourdough starter, but it's wild yeast from fermenting ginger and sugar.

@user-Aaron-

4 ай бұрын

@@finntheraven My understanding of ginger bugs is that they really only happen when using unpeeled ginger as the wild yeast only lives on the skin.

@finntheraven

4 ай бұрын

@@user-Aaron- you could be right. I haven't tried making a ginger bug myself, only heard about it online

@user-Aaron-

4 ай бұрын

@@finntheraven Oh ok, well I appreciate your input nonetheless

Nice

Very cool, definitely going to try! I love ginger beer

Best not to heat the honey, and to add it near the end before fermentation.

@terrandel

3 ай бұрын

I have heard honey has antibacterial and other medicinal properties. do these change with heating?

@xasnikitosx

3 ай бұрын

@@terrandel heat over 40c kills its nutrients

@b.sz.965

3 ай бұрын

​@@terrandelheating honey destroyes all useful qualities honey has unfoetunately

Can you also do other sodas if you change ginger to something else?

Question: can I just make the syrup and mix it with carbonated water?

@stickyprickle

4 ай бұрын

Yes 👍

Traditional Ginger Beer does not contain additional yeast, the yeast lives on the ginger, just like on grapes. Simply dice ginger (ORGANIC) and feed it sugar water until active, then feed it like a sourdough, when it's active, fill it in a bottle and close it for carbonation.

@joyworthen

3 ай бұрын

Ginger bug - yes! love this simple ferment - I am not super experienced but I’ve made it multiple times. And you can sleep it (the bug) like kombucha mother in the fridge. So cool - that said - I’d like to try this method too

@jujutrini8412

Ай бұрын

@@joyworthen It is ginger beer.

I am soooooo going to do this. Thank you very much!

Was the bottle shaken or something or was that pressure all built up just from the carbonation? I would've thought you'd need a pressure release valve to prevent the pressure from building up too much and possibly causing the bottle to explode. EDIT: Also, is there a reason why you don't want to bring the mixture to a boil or simmer it for a bit?

@ChristopherWanha

4 ай бұрын

Only so much carbon dioxide can be desolved in the drink

@user-Aaron-

4 ай бұрын

@@ChristopherWanha Yeah, that's what the release valve would be for though: to get rid of excess carbonation and pressure build-up. My understanding is that when fermenting liquids you normally use a pressure release valve for the first week or so and then seal it with a proper cap for storage where it will continue to carbonate a bit more.

@jakematthews6982

4 ай бұрын

@@user-Aaron-his method used very little sugar and rapid-rise yeast. Given that it was only a week the yeast would make enough Co2 to carbonate and around 1% or less abv but as mentioned above it can only hold so much Co2. The rubber gasket on those lids will hold quite a bit of pressure but will also bleed off some pressure. But after only a week it won’t be all that much. Those bottles are usually rated for holding pressure too. The sudden release is likely from opening a warm (room temperature) bottle. If it was refrigerated for a few hours before opening the release would have been less exciting.

@user-Aaron-

4 ай бұрын

​@@jakematthews6982Oh ok, thanks for the info. So the rubber gaskets were intentionally designed as a failsafe to prevent the bottles from shattering? I haven't gone browsing for bottles yet so I didn't realize some actually came with pressure ratings and the only rubber gasket lidded bottles I've come across were for maple syrup and seemed to seal pretty airtight.

@jakematthews6982

4 ай бұрын

@@user-Aaron- no. The rubber gaskets were not ‘designed’ as a fail safe to prevent bottles from breaking due to pressure. It’s more of a side benefit and I personally don’t know what their pressure rating would be. The way I go about it is to purchase a carbonated drink that’s already in the flip-top bottles. In order for them to be sold to the public they have to be rated to hold the pressure. Not all glass bottles are rated for pressure. But headspace is important when bottling a drink that’s intended to be carbonated. The less headspace the better. Air can be pressurized to crazy high levels and the more air (headspace) you have the more potential for over pressurization. However, once a liquid has reached its maximum with how much Co2 is dissolved into it then Co2 production will stop. But always keep your bottles in a tote or a large pot or something that will contain any possible explosions/messes/injuries if it does occur. I’ve been using that method for a few years and haven’t (yet) had any problems. Please do read-up on home brewing and absorb as much info as possible. Keeping it simple at first and slowly going deeper down the rabbit-hole will get you some really good results. I personally recommend watching City-Steading Brews here on KZread. They cover a lot of good recipes and are geared strongly toward beginners. If you’re able to go to a home-brewing store and purchasing a small kit then you’ll get all of the things a beginner will need. I honestly started brewing with no equipment and slowly obtained what was necessary over time. Now I have HUNDREDS of empty wine bottles, corks and a good bit of some inexpensive but specific brewing equipment that makes the process smoother and easier.

Would you be willing to list step by step of this?

@kytastrophe-

4 ай бұрын

go to his channel...absolutely TONS of easy, whole food recipes, including this one

@kytastrophe-

4 ай бұрын

@@nancyneyedly4587 I found it! he does a lot of compilation vids where he showcases a few recipes, it was it one of those. I knew I'd seen it! Search: Pro Home Cook 10 Things I'll Never Buy From the Store. GREAT info in there as well as the full version of the ginger beer recipe 😊

@peyton.simpson

4 ай бұрын

@@nancyneyedly4587Its literally linked in this short 🤦‍♂️ Edit: Also, can you not just use the step by step breakdown from the short?

@vvorthabilly

4 ай бұрын

is the clip not step x step? you want time stamps or something

@mdog6726

4 ай бұрын

This video was literally step by step. 😂

Using this as a guide you can probably make this in any flavor. Curious how a mango version would taste. 😋

yeah burp it while fermenting, just to be safe.

@GrillChefSteve

2 ай бұрын

How often?

@videog4me

2 ай бұрын

@@GrillChefSteveyou can also put some in a plastic tester bottle at the same time you bottle the other ones. That way you can squeeze it and feel how much pressure is inside, gives you a better educated guess

@GrillChefSteve

2 ай бұрын

Thanks

@adams9848

Ай бұрын

I came here to ask this. Haha. Don't need a cat catching shrapnel while I'm at work.

@GrillChefSteve

Ай бұрын

@@adams9848 death by exploding bottle

Why do you grate the ginger?

I'm trying to stay off sugar. Does most of the sugar disolve in the fermenting process?

That coke smash was epic. I loooove ginger beer!

You can make GINGER BUG ... only ginger sugar and water .... let carbonate...... delute with aple juice and let carbonate ..... you have same results without yeast

“But this version is non-alcoholic” So like every brand of ginger beer?

I’m going to try this !!

Nice!!

I can’t wait to make my own

I don't want my drinks to pop and mess my desk. Any tips?

Perhaps a dumb question, but can you use nutritiinal yeast? Also, is it possible to.add the honey towards the end if you don't want to boil it?

are we sure this doesn't create alchol? my hydrometer said it was around 5% what did i do wrong?

How does this not make alcohol?

@jakematthews6982

4 ай бұрын

It does. But after only a week the abv is very low. If all of the sugars were consumed by the yeast (after only a week it very unlikely that it has) the abv will be around 1% or less. With only 8 oz. of sugar in that amount of the mixture the highest it could get if it was allowed to sit long enough would be around 2.25%. Also, using the rapid-rise yeast that was used would produce far more Co2 than alcohol so this method would only create a carbonated beverage.

@kai_790

4 ай бұрын

@@jakematthews6982 i did something similar, it was at least as potent as bud light

@jakematthews6982

4 ай бұрын

@@kai_790 you must have used more sugar and allowed more time for fermentation. Either that or your own alcohol tolerance is fairly low. There’s problem with either instance. It’s just that in this specific recipe the abv would be barely above 2% if all the sugars were allowed to be consumed. In some places that’s all that is allowed in store-bough beverages by law unless it’s sold in what they call a ‘state liquor store’.

how about giveing them a good flavor like cherry or something

Yes. However most of us don't dry The leftovers we leave some of the liquid enough to cover it and it's called a bug and we use that to make our next sodas

How much sugar ends up remaining in the drink? Looks good but iam diabetic

How about lemon Soda

Sorry to break it for you but if you added yeast and fermented that ginger beer has alcohol.

@Brewbug

2 ай бұрын

Definitely has alcohol. Not a lot but it does.

Do we have to sterilize the bottles?

Wonder if it would work with kefir instead of yeast or a combination of both

can i use palm sugar and get the same effect?

What can I use instead of honey? I'm vegan. Thanks

You should calculate the potential CO2 level to dilute the ginger base right

Is it regular yeast you buy in grocery store

How/where did you get 5 gallon keg please?

How do you make the alcoholic

@albyturner8677

2 ай бұрын

Probably ferment it longer

And it is actually alcoholic. Bakers yeast is s. Cerevisiea. It metabolizes the sugar to ethanol

Love it but can't drink it anymore, I can't eat sugar anymore due to sugar dumping syndrome on top of my IBS, I can only eat meat and cheese

This "see yaa" got men😂

So as a Muslim is it haram cuz I did not get it is it alcohol or not?

@MEMEOMG

22 күн бұрын

It's like 0.001 percent alcohol

Saw this recipe somewhere else too and everyone commenting there warned that the bottles need to breathe every 12 hours or so to avoid "explosions"!

@terrandel

3 ай бұрын

the longer you ferment, the more gas build up there will be. What you are talking about is called "burping' the bottles, and that will help reduce the burst after opening the bottle, but take longer to get the desired level of bubbles. the downside to burping is that if you make larger batches, it takes a while to burp them all, and if done incorrectly, you will end up losing product each time you burp. Refrigerating also reduces the fermentation process (or stops it entirely depending on how cold it gets) which over time also reduces the burst when opening.

I wanna try it but im scared i will accidentally make alcohol😂

Sooo 10x's the time and cost? I'm confused.

@jujutrini8412

Ай бұрын

All you need for ginger beer is ginger, sugar and water. It’s much cheaper to make than to buy pre made ginger beer.

genius 🎉.

Try it with orange juice. Something good :)

“Using ONLY these five ingredients” proceeds to use 6 ingredients and those three spices for added flavor totaling 9 ingredients. God our education system failed us in basic arithmetic.

is there no alcohol for sure?

Try it with a ginger bug vs yeast and you have yourself a probiotic drink as well

Is it possible to make a kombucha with this?

@johnjake1208

4 ай бұрын

Kombucha is a type of bacteria, and you will have to purchase it. You can add the syrup to the kombucha. But this itself is not or cannot be converted to kombucha.

Can u make it without adding sugar?? Or honey??

@albyturner8677

2 ай бұрын

The yeast needs sugar to make It go fizzy

How is this non alcoholic?

Skip the table sugar/sucrose and save your stomach and gut the distress. I never liked sweetened ginger beer for this reason, they use way too much sugar. If I made this I'd add apple sugar (made from scratch) to sweeten this drink. Or even artificial sweetener.

We really went from making stuff naturally to making stuff with chemicals. just to go back and say did you know that you can make stuff naturally?

do the bottles need to be "burped" during the week?

@TommyWalker1991

3 ай бұрын

Absolutely, I made this last week, following this recipe and I was surprised how much gas was created when I first released the pressure after a day. I had two 1 liter bottles and put one in the fridge to slow the fermentation. The other one I kept in the sink just to be sure. I burped both around 23.00h and around 4 am I got woken up because the one outside the fridge exploded. I don't think I had particularly strong bottles (they are not super thick and are rounded squares rather than circular, but still. I am now looking for corks with an airlock, so the pressure can safely release.

Do I have to burp the bottles at all? I don't want anything exploding shawty.

Is this alcoholic beer..

Wouldn’t that turn in to alcohol?

A week?

Emmm......... Those bottles of ginger beer you made are alcoholic. Might be anywhere between 2 & 5%

Are you sure it’s non alcoholic ? I mean, it’s literally the principle of fermentation 😅

@Joker-em6oz

3 ай бұрын

It’s going to be slightly slightly alcoholic

Any bread yeast fermentation produces alcohol. Suggar and honey are simple sugars and would probably ferment low. You know what, I will brew this if I find some time this summer and measure og and fg with precision instruments to know for sure. I wouldn't give this to kids under 15 and not even a drop to any pregnant or breastfeeding moms.

Fill less to avoid spills

Who knew?!!! 🎉

If you ferment it, it becomes alcoholic 😭💀

@Brewbug

2 ай бұрын

@@Usr34556no right away.

If using yeast is the only thing that makes it a beer.Then why isn't wine known as grape beer

Can you replace sugar by another healthier sweetener like more honey or some stevia?

@XirpEleswyr

4 ай бұрын

Unfortunately it won’t carbonate with artificial sweeteners as the yeast needs calories to produce co2. Honey works though.

@idib1739

4 ай бұрын

@@XirpEleswyr so more honey then?

@Never_again_against_anyone

4 ай бұрын

​@@idib1739Yes, honey can work. But you should be really sure it is of good, safe quality. If you accidentally grow a culture of the wrong bacteria you might poison yourself. Fermentation with sugar is safer.

Ginger beer❌Ginger syrup✅

Use only honey

1 Cup of sugar 1/2 cup of honey, 1 cup of water 8 more cups of water, totaling ~2,5 liter cup of sugar, half a cup of honey... that's like what? almost 20% sugar in the end? 10 cups-ish total.

Tried this two times now, and both times ALL of my klip top jugs exploded, no matter how many times I burped them. Be careful guys, it's pretty devastating

It’s not alcohol free if it is fermented lol

Sugar + yeast equals alcohol so how is this alcohol free ?

@Joker-em6oz

3 ай бұрын

It’s so low alcohol it doesn’t affect you

We just used raisins no yeast needed

Wait. How is this "non alcoholic"?

I tried making ginger beer with just 5 ingredients... turns out vodka wasn't one of them. Oops!

“Non alcoholic”. Adds yeast…

All ginger beer is non-alcoholic, just like root beer. I've been drinking ginger beer, and regular beer, for a long time. Never in my life seen alcoholic ginger beer.

Never had alcoholic ginger beer

Why so unnecessarily complicated? Just ferment the ginger. (You need organic ginger for the start.). No heating necessary.

You’ll waste a lot less ginger if you peel it using the side of a teaspoon.

When I saw the sugar it became an instant NO for me.

Be carful with this. Too much sugar per bottle and they will explode from fermentation lol

You need to burp this right?

Did you know you can make alcohol with those same five ingredients

That's a Jamaican drink

bakers yeast wine with that much sugar will make alcohol

That's definitely alcoholic: the bakers eat makes alcohol along with the CO2. For the non-alcoholic version you need a ginger-beer plant.