How To Make Natural Ginger Beer

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[@eike7519]

Have you tried to calculate the amount of sugar? Since you just need it for carbonation, you could use a priming sugar calculator to get the precise amount of more or less any fermentable to reach your desired level of carbonation. This would aid in repeatability and more important (at least for me) it makes it more of a set and forget process, as you don’t need to burp it. 🙂

[@brockmckelvey7327]

This was a great video to wake up to

[@jamesjasonallen4168]

Got a blood orange-basil ginger beer fermenting right now!

[@xRoGeSx]

Great video, recently tried to pull off watermelon soda (took away the seeds, blended the rest ,strained, mixed with the gingerbug)
I wonder If I should have simmered it as it carbonated really well but went bad on the second day having sour, almost pickle-like aftertaste
Gona try it one more time with fresh motivation from this video :D

[@samdonaldson7425]

Uh oh I just made a basil watermelon soda yesterday the same way so I guess I need to drink it quick after it carbonates haha

[@faddad101]

Johnny, I moustache you a question...
👨🏻

[@silveray7]

Thank you for taking the time to make this video.

[@lokisgreenlife6862]

Perfect timing! i just made my firsy ginger bug and ordered flip top bottles. thanks for the video and all you advice!

[@EmorettaRobinson]

Thank you for sharing this. I hadn't thought to add tea and cherries to the ginger beer. Sounds delicious.

[@laileandrade]

Liters and grams, thank you ♥️

[@F10cke]

Yes, its the only precise way.

[@haxi_hd]

You put the boom boom into my heart
You send my soul sky high when your lovin' starts
Gingerbug into my brain
Goes a bang-bang-bang 'til my feet do the same

[@34582wt]

So good! I feel more confident to do something like this

[@shaeliev9372]

Is it possible to over ferment your ginger bug? I've had mine in the counter for months, it is bubbly, I have been feeding it, but I wonder if it isn't good anymore for ginger beer

[@TTheLemon]

I wonder if using the natural yeasts you could create something akin to a kombucha culture from scratch almost

[@F10cke]

A question:
Why didn't you use the zest of the lime? Is it because you wanted only the juice for a subtle flavor, or because the oils in the zest interfere with the yeast based fermentation process (i regularly use zest in my lacto fermentations)?

[@TheMegaloYT]

10/10 trying this

[@martincheng2189]

For the tea drink did you also ferment w the ginger bug? I assume so but you didn’t mention. Thanks!

[@jasonk9020]

What about adding your favorite flavors of Cheong to it instead of sugar for the yeast? I bet that would be delicious 😋

[@sholehnurudin]

Can you describe what "Dry" you're referring to is?
I made my first lemon soda using ginger bug, and then ginger ale too, it's so refreshing, but I got unpleasant after taste,
Both made my mouth and tongue feels dry, even after I took a couple glass of water,
Any idea?

[@3dprintingwithageek]

when you use ginger bug does your beverages taste like ginger ? why did you stop using kefir ?

[@lootera8813]

A moustache too😂

[@gagecrim1913]

Do this Ginger beer and your other sodas contain loads of alcohol? Or just small amounts? Im not too familiar with this and I wanted to try it out but no large amount of alcohol

[@narlight]

How does one make the ginger bug? 😄

[@sweet_sweetiepie]

Great vid! I made the pilgrimage here from instagram. Really cool to see your content in long format.

[@karlroberts9046]

Would there be any issues with fermenting in plastic bottles? Instead of sourcing the pressure safe bottles?

[@jasonkeith2832]

They can explode. If you want to use plastic bottles, use ones that previously were for soda or other carbonated beverages, as they are pressure safe.

[@TheeTage]

Gemere ❤

[@Nilie99]

If we add more sugar will it more carbonate? 🧐

[@jasonkeith2832]

Somewhat, but after enough time the yeast will create enough alcohol that it will die off. Mind you, since the ginger starter isn't a commercial brewing yeast, it can not really create enough alcohol for the drink to be meaningfully alcoholic.

[@sofieluvsGbffl]

Could you add something to kill the yeast so you could sweeten it with sugar rather than sweetener?

[@GroovingGamer]

If you kill the yeast I imagine it wouldn’t carbonate

[@lokisgreenlife6862]

heat kills yeast, but then you would stop the fermentation process. so you would end up with juice not soda/beer

[@sofieluvsGbffl]

@@lokisgreenlife6862 I was more thinking along the lines of potassium sorbate, you can add this in wine making to kill the yeast so sugar can be added. However, I'm not sure if we're dealing with the same yeasts in this process and/or mechanism of deactivation :)

[@danudwi1874]

Does it have alcohol contain in it?

[@EmorettaRobinson]

No. It's called ginger beer because the process used to ferment the ginger is similar to the process to make beer.

[@danudwi1874]

@@EmorettaRobinson thank you 🙏

[@polarbear9772]

its basically like letting bread rise but instead of trapping the yeast gasses in dough you trap it in a liquid 😊

[@sholehnurudin]

Any fermentation product will always form alcohol as by product, but wild yeast from ginger bug isn't strong enough to make you intoxicated

[@nadiahassan5307]

Heck yeah metric!

[@juie5314]

I couldn't stop myself from laughing every time I looked at your mustache 😂

[@mickeyiael9013]

❣💌❣

[@avocadoarms358]

I can hear the Americans screaming in 8/16ths