I made my own ginger ale last night, using most of Alton Brown's Recipe, but replacing the step where you add yeast to carbonate it, by using my awesome Soda stream to carbonate it!
My apartment smelled delicious as it simmered. After straining out the ginger I decided to try the syrup on its own. It was spicy and hurt my mouth, I wouldn't recommend that. I then mixed it with my bubbly water and a splash of lemon juice and it tasted almost store bought!
I'd like to try rootbeer next, but I'm not sure where to buy sarsaparilla.
Excellent work! I hope you'll have this on hand next weekend in case of over consumption at the Wine & Cheese. ;)
ReplyDeleteWe candied ginger this week and have lots of leftover ginger syrup. Mmmm.