Thread: Summer drinks.

I like to brew my own non-alcoholic drinks for a refreshing summer drink.
Question is which is your favorite, Ginger beer or Sarsparilla? Mines ginger beer. Made from scratch by growing a ginger beer plant with sultanas,lemon and ginger.
Please feel free to post any recipes you have for any other non-alcoholic fermentable summer beverages.

How is it fermented yet non alcoholic? I made a ginger beer plant when i was a boy. It was dynamite & my mother rationed me in the end!

My wife and son have made ginger beer a few times with a plant - except we don't drink that much ginger beer (although son would be happy to!) - and I believe you have to keep 'feeding' it. (It improves with each batch doesn't it?)

When it's really hot I like to make snow (with one of those ice - snow makers) and add cordial (rasberry or blackcurrant). The kids love it too.

We've got a few hot days coming up I think...

All the best,
Michael.

As I look out on all the snow out here, allow me to say that you people in summer right now SUCK. :P

I've never made my own fermentable summer drinks, mainly because I would drink too much for me to store. I can easily run through a gallon of iced sweet tea a day in the winter, let alone summer.

We make juice from the thornberry bushes we have in our garden. Few spoonfuls in the glass of water, and there's a tasty and healthy drink. In winter too.

Originally Posted by Quick Orange

As I look out on all the snow out here, allow me to say that you people in summer right now SUCK. :P

I've never made my own fermentable summer drinks, mainly because I would drink too much for me to store. I can easily run through a gallon of iced sweet tea a day in the winter, let alone summer.

A man after my own heart~!

Okay, the DIY in me REALLY wants to know how to make-your-own ginger beer!! One of you enlightened fellows want to share your recipe and technique?

Originally Posted by ben.mid

How is it fermented yet non alcoholic? I made a ginger beer plant when i was a boy. It was dynamite & my mother rationed me in the end!

Well it is not exactly "NON" but close to it at about .5%. Anything under 1% is generally regarded as a soft drink. You are only using enough sugar to carbonate the bottles.
Not that you can,t add more sugar to make an adults only ginger beer!

I must've gone heavy on the sugar, or been particularly sensitive to the alcohol content!