Homemade ginger beer
Serves 4-6
Easy
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Plus cooling
Enjoy this fiery ginger beer at a family barbecue or pour into a bottle for a picnic. It's made by cooking up a ginger cordial and topping up with soda water
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- 200g gingerthickly sliced
- 2 large lemonspeeled and juiced
- 75g golden caster sugar
- 100g light brown muscovado sugar
- ice
- 1 litre sodaor sparkling water
- mintsprigs, to serve
Nutrition: Per serving (6)
- kcal119
- fat0glow
- saturates0g
- carbs30g
- sugars29g
- fibre0.1g
- protein0.1g
- salt0.09g
Method
step 1
Put the ginger in a saucepan set over a low heat with the lemon peel, sugars and 500ml water and stir until the sugars have dissolved. Increase the heat to medium, then simmer for 15-20 mins, or until reduced and syrupy. Remove from the heat and leave to cool completely.
step 2
Strain the syrup into a jug through a sieve lined with muslin. At this stage, you can transfer the syrup to a small sterilised bottle or jar and keep in the fridge for up to two weeks.
step 3
Pour the ginger syrup into a large serving jug. Tip in the lemon juice, fill with ice and top up with the soda water. Serve garnished with a few mint sprigs.
