MakingGinger Beer

Aim: I want to find out how to make ginger bear

Method

Ingreditends
You'll need: 
--1c sugar (or less) 
--yeast 
--small piece of ginger root 
--a lemon 
--a grater (microplane or fine holes) or food processor/chopper 
--an empty 2L plastic (important) bottle 
--around 2L of fresh water

Equipment

Instructions
Peel and finely grate a small piece of ginger.
Roll the lemon between your hand and a hard surface a few times; this will help you get the juice out more quickly once it's cut.
To the empty 2L bottle, add:
--1c sugar
--1/4 tsp yeast
--lemon juice
--grated ginger
Fill your 2L bottle to an inch or two below the top with fresh water. Screw the cap on tightly, and shake until everything is dispersed. Be certain to flush the sugar from the nooks at the bottom of the bottle.
once you're finished, place the bottle in a warm-ish place
Check on it every few hours by squeezing the bottle. When you can no longer push in on the bottle take the bottle and put it in the fridge. This will slow down the fermentation and keep things from exploding. 

Note: I am quite serious about the exploding bit. If you leave the bottle just sitting in a warm place for a few days, it will likely explode and send sugary water all over the room. So keep an eye on it!
Resulets
What is that stuff at the bottom?
Its yeast that is growing as it eats the sugar

What does it smell like?
It is the smell of ginger combined with baked bread and stale alchohole

What does it taste like?
The ginger should make it spicey. The yeast should have eaten all the sugar so it does not taste sweet

What happens if you shake it
It will fizz because of the carbine dioxide that was made by yeast







Discussion:

What is yeast? Orgasim from the fungis familey

What did the yeast do in the ginger Beer

What are some other good uses of yeast

What are some other bad uses of yeast