Ginger Beer Recipe | Chelsea Sugar (2024)

Was very good but exploded when we opened it

If you do the math 6 litires of water is to much to fill 6 750mm bottles hence the ginger beer was a little flat and watery should be 4.5 litres of boiling and cold water add total

its looking pretty good

It is very delicious. I have made it many times and it never disappoints.

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My first batch is too bitter. Hoping the second batch is better.

Having a go now. Two questions. Is this no alcoholic? Should the bug bubble before you bottle it? Thanks

Question, I've rung out of raw sugar. Can I use normal sugar instead

This does not make any sense! 6 litres of water and the bug water is getting close to 7 litres yet it only makes 6 750ml bottles!
Someone needs to go back to school.

Looks good. WE used to make this when I was young in the 1950's. Same process. Screw top plastic soda bottles are good so you get no explosions :-)

Looks good. WE used to make this when I was young in the 1950's. Same process. Screw top plastic soda bottles are good so you get no explosions :-)

I’m keen to do this ginger beer recipe.
One question
I see that we feed the next bug daily as with the first one but do we also add a 2 tsp of yeast at the beginning as we did in the first bug?

IT WAS AMAZING

Doesn’t really taste much like ginger beer, it was really watered down
One question:
Is this alcoholic?

Currently brewing right now and so far so good! Question though.. do you need to relieve the pressure in the bottles during the 2 week fermentation time?

math not wrong, ideally you should not pour ALL the mixture in the bottles, there should still be sediment / sludge left in the bottom of the bucket. a quarter (or less) teaspoon of sugar n each bottle adds a bit of fiz.
(of course this is alcoholic - anything with yeast becomes alcoholic over this much time).

Real easy recipe to follow highly recommend

good good and ginger bear is good for you when you are sicky and icky

I loved this recipe and my family did too.

This turned out like booze for me.
The real homemade ginger beer.is just ginger and sugar.
100gm sugar
100gm thinly sliced ginger
Boil water disolve sugar, add ginger.
Cover with flannel and secure, in warm shaded place for 7 days . Add couple of tb sugar each day. That's it...do the rest as Chelsea has stated.

Just like my childhood

Great recipe. I used a different one recipe for the bug stage but the recipe for making the ginger beer is great. Just a tip, if you don’t know what to do with leftover bug you can add it to a soup

Very easy, found that water as per recipe was too much. Does this recipe require ‘purging’ daily?
CHELSEA SUGAR: Hi there, no it doesn't :-)

Good recipe, but one litre of water is counted twice. If you make it with 1l boiling and 4l cold, it works and the quantity is right.

Thank You

Really easy! Made in the summer. Ginger bug fizzes a little from time to time but if it's cool it will just bubble occasionally. Managed to keep it going 2 weeks so far. As others have said, there's a problem with the maths, but I left some cold water out and made 4.5 litres. I added vanilla paste, aniseed, and heaps of grated fresh ginger. I used some muscovado sugar as some of the sugar. Made it dark and caramelly. I also only fermented it for 2 days because it's summer and the bottles would have exploded otherwise. I let some of the gas out very carefully every few hours because the bottles were rock hard. It tasted very gingery, slightly beery/yeasty, and slightly sweet.

This was a great recipe to make with children. Very successful. So fun making a ginger beer bug too!

Should " into a bucket and add the lemon juice." be " into the bucket and add the lemon juice."
This recipe does not seem to ever combine the bug liquid with the disolved sugar 6L bucket.

So far so good! But 6l of water doesn’t fit in 6 x 750ml bottles so just get some extra bottles

The maths is all wrong. 5L cold plus 1Lhot =6L
Yet recipe claims to make 6x 750ml (4.5L)
Where does the remaining 1.5L magically disappear? It doesn't, it's left over.
Hence why if you follow the recipe you end up with a weak watered down ginger beer. I make it 3.5L plus 1L hot. Then it is correct

thnx it was yummmmmmmmmy

I used this ginger beer and it turned out great!

This made some very yummy ginger beer!

oh dear, it was not good. It had no ginger flavour at all. It was very fizzy though. won't be recommending

I made this recipe and decided to try it after a week of fermenting and it had already become alcoholic ginger beer. I made this for my family and so now they can't have it and I've made two batches. Please change the name of the recipe or the fermentation time