Ginger Beer

Ingredients

• 2-1/2 lb loaf sugar
• 1-1/2 oz bruised ginger
• 1 oz cream of tartar
• the rind and juice of 2 lemons
• 3 gallon boiling water
• 2 large tablespoonfuls of thick and fresh brewer's yeast

Instructions

1. Peel the lemons, squeeze the juice, strain it, and put the peel and juice into a large earthen pan, with the bruised ginger, cream of tartar, and loaf sugar.
2. Pour over these ingredients 3 gallons of boiling water;
3. let it stand until just warm, when add the yeast, which should be thick and perfectly fresh.
4. Stir the contents of the pan well, and let them remain near the fire all night, covering the pan over with a cloth.
5. The next day skim off the yeast, and pour the liquor carefully into another vessel, leaving the sediment;
6. then bottle immediately, and tie the corks down, and in 3 days the ginger beer will be fit for use.
7. For some tastes, the above proportion of sugar may be found rather too large, when it may be diminished; but the beer will not keep so long good.