Recipe #3

Homemade Jamaican Ginger Beer

Stage 1

Ingredients

1lb Fresh ginger

10 cups Hot water

3-5 Whole cloves

1 Tbsp Cream of tartar

1/3 cup Fresh-squeezed lime juice

1 1/3 to 1 1/2 cups of sugar 

2 Tbsp Rum (optional)

Procedure

1. Blend fresh ginger in batches with water and pour mixture in large bowl

2. Add cloves and cream of tartar to mixture and steep in fridge overnight (or for at least four hours, if making same day).

3. Using a fine strainer (or one with a cheesecloth), strain steeped ginger beer into another bowl.

4. Add lime juice, sugar and, if using, rum to ginger beer and stir

5. Pour into a large bottle and store in fridge

Serve over ice