- What is yeast?
Yeast is fungi what can only be seen by a microscope but its all around us but we cant see it
There's natural yeast what is all around us, then there man made yeast in a bottle
Yeast produces Carbon dioxide (CO2)
- We are going to make ginger bear
- Equipment
Kettle
Bowl
Beaker
Cloth Sieve
Funnel
Plastic (PET) bottle and cap.
- Materials
Bug (group of 3)
50ml Warm water1/2 tsp Active dried yeast
1/2 tsp Sugar
1/2 tsp ground ginger
Ginger Beer (for 1 litre)
3/4 cup of sugar
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
1L cold water
Juice of 1/2 lemon
1 tsp ginger beer bug
- Method
- In a large bowl, put the sugar and the cream of tartar, then add the warm water.
- Stir to dissolve the sugar before adding the cold water.
- Add the ginger beer bug to the large bowl of cold water.
- Stir well and then pour into your clean bottle.
- Label your bottles with your group names.
- Place all the bottles in the class container.
- Store in a cool, dark place for one week before drinking.
- Make sure you open the bottle in the kitchen sink as
Today we made ginger beer in class. We did this by activating the yeast first by adding sugar to the yeast, putting some ginger beer and warm water in a cup together. Once we had done this we put it to the side and left it to ferment while we made the rest of the ginger beer. We made the ginger beer in an ice cream container by adding first the sugar, then the water, some lemon juice and lastly the ginger beer bug. Once everything was mixed up we put it in a bottle. It is going to take about 6 days to turn into ginger beer. Mr Palmer is going to keep it in his office for next week.
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