Just like making bread rise and brewing beer, you can use fermentation to make your very own ginger ale. With a few ingredients found in the supermarket and some tools in your own home, you can learn make ginger ale at home and flavor it to your own special tastes--whether you like it sweet, tangy or spicy.
Instructions
1. Gather your ingredients. You will need table sugar, freshly grated ginger root, a lemon, granular baker's yeast and clean water, preferably bottled spring water. Using distilled water won't work, so make sure it's drinking water or spring water.
2. Find all the utensils and tools you'll need. Make sure to gather a 2 liter plastic soft drink bottle with a cap that is clean, a funnel, a box grater, a dry 1 cup measuring cup, a liquid measuring cup, a paring knife, a mixing spoon, a hand juicer and measuring spoons, sizes ? tsp. and 1 Tbsp.
3. Put the funnel in the top of the 2 liter soft drink bottle so that it makes it easier to fill, leaving the funnel in the top of the bottle the entire time. Pour in the 1 cup of sugar measured with the dry measuring cup.
4. Add the ? tsp. of yeast to bottle via the funnel. Shake the bottle to disperse the yeast in the sugar.
5. Grate your ginger by cutting off the end of it with the paring knife and rubbing it against the box grater until you have 1? Tbsp. Place the ginger in the liquid measuring cup.
6. Juice the lemon with the hand juicer by cutting it apart and juicing the halves, then add the juice to the ginger. Dump this mixture into the bottle with the sugar and yeast. Don't worry if there's some left in the measuring cup or the funnel.
7. Pour some of the clean spring water into the liquid measuring cup to rinse it out and pour that into the funnel. Shake the bottle to disperse and clean the sides of the bottle.
8. Fill the soda bottle the rest of the way with the rest of the spring water. Shake it to dissolve the sugar, let the mixture sit for 24 hours in a warm place and then chill. When it's chilled, strain the ginger ale to remove pieces of ginger and enjoy.
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