Nice post on Andy Hamilton's blog if your a ginger beer fan as I am. It's a nonalcoholic ginger beer but as Andy suggested once run through a soda stream will be ace as a mixer.
http://www.theotherandyhamilton.com/2013/12/18/quick-and-easy-african-ginger-beer-part-five-in-the-12-drinks-for-christmas/
Made this ginger beer up today and it's come out very good. Very very gingery and has a great kick to it. I made it up a little different to Andy but the ingredients are the same.
Peeled and beat the ginger to death with a rolling pin in a freezer bag, brought 500ml water to the boil in a pan.
Added the beaten ginger root to the pan. Left to steep for 30mins.
Put 125g of honey in a jug, added 140ml (125g) of lemon juice, two cloves and 1\2 a cinnamon stick, topped up to 600ml of boiling water, stirred until the honey is dissolved and added to the pan with the steeped ginger.
Left the whole lot to cool and strained through muslin into one of our Sodastream 1 litre bottles and is now chilling in the fridge.
When it's nice and cold I'll blast it with some bubbles.
Got the Ginger root from Aldi for £0.31 and the lemon juice from Co-op for £0.61. We had some honey in the house so all in all the ginger beer worked out quite inexpensive to make. At a guess it works out at about £0.60 per litre bottle and that includes the honey and spices.
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