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Make your own Ginger Rogenous

Sunday 16 March 2008, 12:14 am

Ant Rogenous

Categories: Alcohol

Tags: CheapGrog, eco-sheila, GingerBeer, hippie, poof, recipe

I bottled a batch of my ricoculously delicious home-made ginger beer today and thought I’d post the recipe for any GrodsReaders who might be, you know, that way inclined (i.e. poofy hippie eco-sheilas like me who get a kick out of making stuff from scratch).

Ginger Rogenous

It’s dirt cheap and fairly easy to do: just follow these instructions, and if you make sure all your equipment is sterilised you should have very little trouble.

Oh, and for those who don’t know, home-made ginger beer is alcoholic. Hooray.

17 Comments

Zombie Mao (Sunday 16 March 2008, 12:59 am) #

yummmmmmm

thanks for the recipie
Bruce (Sunday 16 March 2008, 2:10 am) #

OMG. I made one of these when I was a kid. I got the recipe from some serious evangelicals I lived next to and I’ve been looking for the same recipe ever since I moved to Adelaide in 1992.

Admittedly, since then I’ve found a die-hard serious way to make some really good ginger beer. But I lost that recipe as well. :(
Damian (Sunday 16 March 2008, 8:54 am) #

That photo with the long-necks in the background reminds of the days when my mate Pube and I first decided to do some home brewing. We got the calculator out, did the sums, and worked out how many bottles we’d need. Then we had a long-neck draining party. Then another one. It was grousome.

Hey, what are the smaller bottles in the front? Milk bottles?
Ant Rogenous (Sunday 16 March 2008, 11:12 am) #

They’re little chinotto bottles, Damian. And I’ll be buggered if there’s not a disgusting story behind how “Pube” got his name!
Bridgit Gread (Sunday 16 March 2008, 11:27 am) #

I’m not that keen on ginger… can I use cayenne pepper as a substitute?
Bruce (Sunday 16 March 2008, 12:44 pm) #

They’re little chinotto bottles…

What brand? I’ve been looking for more bottles without a twist top ever since Coopers made the change.

(I’m told you should keep brew in clear bottles out of the light - hence the amber or green glass used for beer bottles).

I’m not that keen on ginger… can I use cayenne pepper as a substitute?

You probably can Bridgit. Heck, I put basil and mint into my chocolate tarts.

I’ll have to try cayenne in a chocolate tart I reckon. I once grew bell chillis that would leave a burning sensation on your hands for days if you got the juice on you (they were hotter than store bought bell chillis). Eating chocolate was awesome when you had to get a bit off of your fingers.

I’m trying to grow some more, so maybe I should send some to Craig to see what he can do with them.
Ant Rogenous (Sunday 16 March 2008, 1:15 pm) #

Bruce, most of the imported chinottos still have crown seals: San Pellegrino, Fritz, Stappj, 8-it, etc. You’ll find them in good delis.

Stappj, if you can find it, is easily the best for the price. Taste-wise it’s almost on par with the outrageously expensive San Pellegrino drinks, but you should be able to find six packs of Stappj for between four and six bucks.
John Surname (Sunday 16 March 2008, 2:03 pm) #

I’m definitely making me some o’ dis.
Damian (Sunday 16 March 2008, 4:09 pm) #

Didn’t this post bring out the hippies! Can’t wait for the GrodsCompost guide.
Bridgit Gread (Sunday 16 March 2008, 5:58 pm) #

Stay tuned for a hilarious new sitcom The Grods Life, where The Editor and Ant drop out of the rat race, quit their jobs and spend their days growing fennel and mustard cress in their window boxes.
Ant Rogenous (Sunday 16 March 2008, 6:12 pm) #

We’ve decided to call it The Grod Couple, Bridgit.
Terry Wright (Sunday 16 March 2008, 6:25 pm) #

Oh, and for those who don’t know, home-made ginger beer is alcoholic. Hooray.

mmmm.
Ant Rogenous (Sunday 16 March 2008, 6:59 pm) #

I thought you’d like that, Terry!
Bruce (Sunday 16 March 2008, 7:32 pm) #

…quit their jobs and spend their days growing fennel and mustard cress in their window boxes.

But like the seeds would wash out and enter our waterways and fennel is a major weed strangling out endangered native flora! Don’t trust her! She’s working for the man!
Damian (Sunday 16 March 2008, 8:03 pm) #

Spot on, Bruce. And, like how do you expect to sustain this little window sill utopia, Ant, without BUILDING MORE DAMS!!
Bridgit Gread (Sunday 16 March 2008, 8:11 pm) #

I wasn’t aware that fennel was so pernicious(tm). Perhaps you could farm a boxful of bok choy.
Ant Rogenous (Sunday 16 March 2008, 8:25 pm) #

Perniciousness is a hallmark of many useless introduced species.