You’ll never reach for a pre-made, sugar filled Ginger Beer again! This Spicy Homemade Ginger Beer is super spicy, super effervescent, and super simple! Your favorite spirit is optional. Although this makes one fantastic Moscow Mule cocktail!

Ginger, by far, has to be one of my favorite flavors.

It’s spicy, sweet, and savory – all at the same time. It’s used in curries, cookies, teas, stirfry, soups, dressings, smoothies…the list literally is endless.

This little rhizome can be found and used fresh, powdered, dried, as a juice, or as an oil.

Read: used countless ways, for every purpose you can think of. 

One of my absolute favorite ways to enjoy ginger is by drinking it! And let’s be clear about something: Ginger Ale doesn’t cut it. Sure, it’s sweet. It’s bubbly. It somewhat resembles the flavor of ginger. But when I need a true ginger bev – one that is so spicy, it makes me do that little, inevitable, tickled “ahem” – I reach for this Spicy Homemade Ginger Beer.

And DAMN is it good.

Another reason why I love ginger so much is because of the extensive list of health benefits it offers. It aids:

• Digestion
• Nausea
• Cardiovascular Health
• Cold and flu symptoms
• Inflammation
• Generally crappy-day-blues

Ok. Maybe that last one was more of a personal type of benefit for yours truly. But I bet you can relate.

The trick is making a super potent ginger beer concentrate, which you can dilute to your liking.

Start with freshly grated ginger, of course.

Add lime juice + water.

Add just enough sugar to keep it sweet.

Blend, blend, blend.

When ready to serve, as mentioned: add as much (or little!) of the bubbliest soda water you can find. Add ice, vodka/bourbon/your favorite spirit (if you’re so inclined), and add that straw.

Sip, sip, HOORAY!

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Spicy Homemade Ginger Beer

You'll never reach for a pre-made, sugar filled Ginger Beer again! This Spicy Homemade Ginger Beer is super spicy, super effervescent, and super simple! Your favorite spirit is optional. Although this makes one fantastic Moscow Mule cocktail!

Prep Time5 minutes mins

Total Time5 minutes mins

Course: Drinks

Servings: 8 servings

Ingredients

• 2 cups water
• 1 cup fresh squeezed lime juice
• 2 Tbsp fresh ginger, grated
• 1/3 cup superfine sugar
• Soda

Instructions

• Add sugar to blender or food processor, processing until super fine.
• Add water, grated ginger, and lime juice. Process until combined.
• Set a strainer lined with cheese cloth over a mason jar. Pour ginger mixture in to jar. Squeeze cheese cloth to release all liquid.
• When ready to serve, add 1/2 cup ginger beer concentrate to glass, top with seltzer. Add vodka or bourbon, if preferred. Garnish with lime.

Notes

Original recipe from "The Best of Cooking Light, Everyday Recipes".