Honeyade (Mead) With Your Ginger Beer Plant.

What you will need.

1. 1 x Jar capable of holding more than 2 Litres
2. An elastic band or string
3. Some kitchen paper and/or muslin
4. A fine stainless steel or plastic sieve
5. A 2 litre fizzy drink bottle. The simplest is an empty PET cola bottle or a flip top beer bottle.
6. Plastic funnel

Ingredients.

1. 50 - 200g of GBP (how much isn't vital)
2. 150g of sugar
3. 2 litres of filtered/chlorine free/bottled water
4. 1/2 teaspoon of cream of tartar (tartaric acid)
5. 1/2 a teaspoon of citric acid or the juice of at least half a lemon.
6. 200g of Honey

Method

Make sure your jar has been washed in hot soapy water and rinsed clean. Prepare and measure out all ingredients ready to go.

Boil a cup of water from the ingredients, poor over honey in a jug and stir to disolve the honey. Add the other ingredients to the fermenting jar, slowly poor in the honeywhile stirring the fermenting jar water, this is just so the hot honey doesn't scald the GBP.

Now cover the jar with the kitchen paper and secure with the elastic band or string.

Allow the honey to ferment for a few days until it tastes the way you want it then bottle as for the ginger beer recipe.

You can use more sugar if you like to make the brew alcoholic.

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