Making Ginger Beer

Ingredients and equipment for making ginger 

Equipment:

Spoons

Kettle

Bowl

Beaker

Cloth Sieve

Funnel

Plastic bottle and cap.

Materials.

For a group of 3

50ml warm water

1/2 tsp active dried yeast

1/2 tsp sugar

1/2 tsp ground ginger.

For 1 litre

3/4 cup sugar

1/2tsp cream of tartar

1L cold water

Juice of 1/2 lemon

1 tsp ginger beer bug.

Method

1.In a large bowl, Put in the sugar and cream of tartar, Then add the warm water.

2.Stir to dissolve the sugar before adding the cold water.

3.Add the ginger beer bug to the large bowl of cold water.

4.Stir well and then pour into your clean bottle

5 Label your bottle with you group names.

6.place all the bottles in the class container

7.Store in a cool dark place for one week before drinking.

8Make sure you open the bottle in the kitchen sink as it might overflow, Open the cap bit by bit to allow the air to escape.

The ginger beer must be drunk over the 6 days.

You must provide your own bottle.

We wanted to see how yeast was best activated. To do this we used 3 Conical flasks a teaspoon of yeast in each one some warm water in each one and sugar in one of the flasks ,we then put a balloon on top of each flask. We found out that the flask had the yeast and sugar inflated the balloon it showed that when yeast has sugar it activates and creates a gas called carbon dioxide gas.