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Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 6:56 pm
http://crumpetsandcakes.blogspot.com/2010/07/homemade-ginger-ale-two-ways.html
Would love to try this. Does anyone know if you can can stuff like this to make it last? I think I want to get into canning.
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Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 9:16 pm
I would bottle it like wine or beer, Pirhan.
When I was a kid, I remember my grandparents and Mom talking about making ginger beer when my mother was small. They had bottled quite a bit of it, apparently, and put it down in the cellar (there were 3 cellars under that house!). About a week later, they were all awakened in the night by the sound of corks popping and bottles exploding!
As for canning, I was remembering them again today---probably because my aunt just passed away a couple of weeks ago, and one memory leads to another---and I remembered my Grandmother saying something about a steam canner when we were canning stuff one hot summer day. I really couldn't find anything on old steam canners until I went to Ebay. I found the most amazingly simple thing there, a Conservo Steam Cooker. You should go there and see if one is there. It won't work for everything, but I'm definitely going to watch for one to use with pickles, jams, other acidic foods. Not only would it keep the kitchen cooler, it processes twice the amount of food as a standard pressure canner. Go look!
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Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 11:49 pm
The ginger ale I've made was pretty strong; it had something to do with the fact that I grated my ginger (instead of chopping it) and filtered it out later. I would love to know how to preserve it.
I used plastic soda jugs because they seem to have a little flex to them, but I've been scared a couple of times when the pressure gets too high. I burp my brew bottles (I'm not sure how healthy that is for the ginger ale) and it seems to stop a lot of the gasses from building up too much.
I've never tried making ginger ale the way I make wine, I should probably just use a air diffuser for it.
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