Yield: 4 litres
Method:
- Boil 1 litre water in large pot
- Dissolve in 1 kg sugar
- Add in 250g minced ginger in cheese cloth
- Add in 6 tbsp concentrated lemon juice
- Boil 20 minutes
- Remove ginger
- Add cold water to make 4 litres
- Cool mixture (wort) to ~ 68-70F
- Transfer wort to 4l primary container
- Pitch 1 tbsp dry yeast into wort (champagne yeast is best, bread yeast the cheapest)
- Let ferment 4-5 days, until activity subsides
- Dissolve 2 tbsp sugar in 125ml hot water
- Add sugar water to clean secondary container
- Siphon brew to secondary container, leave sludge behind
- Siphon brew from secondary into bottles and cap
- Let bottles condition 1-2 weeks
- Drink, ahhhh cheap booze!