Live Ginger Beer Plant KIT
$ 29.00
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Product: Everything you need to make delicious ginger beer at home!
Kit Includes:
- You will receive 2 tablespoons of live organic healthy ginger beer plant.
- Durable Culture-Friendly Plastic Strainer
- Diameter of the strainer: 5.5 inches. Will easily hold and strain a quart or more.
- Black or White - Chosen at Random
- Made of plastic and fine nylon mesh; convenient and culture-friendly material for your ginger beer plant. Dishwasher safe.
- Features hooks to facilitate straining your cultured beverages easily over a bowl
- 1 Adhesive Jar Thermometer to make sure the ginger beer is brewing at the right temperature.
- 58-88°F range (for most cultures the ideal area is the mid 70's)
- No more hassle dirtying your probe kitchen thermometers, and having to re-check several times (or risking breaking mercury-filled glass thermometers)
- Bamboo Spoon to help stir and strain your ginger beer
- Handmade Elastic Sustainable Brewing Cloth Lid
- To use as your culture's designated brewing lid (reusable, culture-friendly, breathable, bug/dust proof, and washable!). We love these and personally use these on every one of our ferments. Fits almost any jar - tiny bottles to large gallon jars!
- Detailed step-by-step instructional PICTURE guide: Everything you need to know for caring for your grains and making great ginger beer (along with pics to show you how!).
- Recipes: Including various flavoring, smoothies, and Italian sodas.
- Instructions are sent with notification of shipment, to give you time to prepare for necessary supplies and ingredients!
Yield: This amount of ginger beer plant will produce about 4 cups of delicious ginger beer each batch (2-7 days) to start with and much more as the plant grows.
Notes: Upon arrival, the GBP may give off a strong yeasty and/or sour smell when you open the bag, this is just from the natural gas produced by the grains and is to be expected.
Shipping: Shipping starts at $3.80. Expedited shipping available.
Will ship within 2 business days.
- We now ship live GBP internationally.
What a wonderful plant!
Since there's no Celtic or Himalayan salt here in our country, I used a local equivalent of Concentrace drops, called Bischofite - and it worked wonders! The grains are growing like crazy, - producing a remarkably tasty and healthy drink in the process.
I have put them in a mesh fermenter, thus separating the grains nicely from the ginger sediment, and they seem to appreciate it.
According to Martinus Beijerinck, the grains were brought by the British soldiers while returning to their country from the Crimean War in 1855. So now here in Ukraine, they complete the long journey home.
Thank you for sustaining and propagating this fantastic culture!
What a wonderful plant!
Since there's no Celtic or Himalayan salt here in our country, I used a local equivalent of Concentrace drops, called Bischofite - and it worked wonders! The grains are growing like crazy, - producing a remarkably tasty and healthy drink in the process.
I have put them in a mesh fermenter, thus separating the grains nicely from the ginger sediment, and they seem to appreciate it.
According to Martinus Beijerinck, the grains were brought by the British soldiers while returning to their country from the Crimean War in 1855. So now here in Ukraine, they complete the long journey home.
Thank you for sustaining and propagating this fantastic culture!
The grains: Five stars. Lively, kicky, delicious. They were up and running in no time and were already multiplying by the third batch.
The kit: Four stars. It made getting started really painless, and it's a good value. I absolutely loved the jar cap, and I was surprised by how much I like having the stick-on thermometer. I was less impressed by the strainer--the size is awkward and the mesh is a little coarser than the smallest GBP grains. On the other hand, it works fine and you need one. As for the spoon, it's good quality, but you probably have one already. If I were designing the kit, I'd swap the spoon for an Asian-style ginger grater, which would be helpful for folks who don't have blenders.
Overall: One thousand stars for value, service, and the luxury of starting from live healthy grains . . . and another million for making real GBP available to the public. I will buy all my cultures from you from now on.
The grains: Five stars. Lively, kicky, delicious. They were up and running in no time and were already multiplying by the third batch.
The kit: Four stars. It made getting started really painless, and it's a good value. I absolutely loved the jar cap, and I was surprised by how much I like having the stick-on thermometer. I was less impressed by the strainer--the size is awkward and the mesh is a little coarser than the smallest GBP grains. On the other hand, it works fine and you need one. As for the spoon, it's good quality, but you probably have one already. If I were designing the kit, I'd swap the spoon for an Asian-style ginger grater, which would be helpful for folks who don't have blenders.
Overall: One thousand stars for value, service, and the luxury of starting from live healthy grains . . . and another million for making real GBP available to the public. I will buy all my cultures from you from now on.
I became curious about ginger beer from reading novels set in England. It seemed non or little alcohol product. I found store bought and fell in love with it. Store bought is hard to find. I didn't realize that I could have home brewed it. I discovered this site and information while researching kefir. It's so easy to brew. My first batch was perfect. The fizz and bite are what I expected. The grains arrived in good condition. The instructions and what to expect while brewing are clear easy to follow. When I get the hang of this I plan to have lots of ginger beer on hand! I strongly recommend giving this a try. I just love it. I did add a slight change. I had planned to use boiled tap water for this and my water kefir. I used half cup of the boiled water to grind fresh organic ginger in blender. Strained and mixed sugars as recommended. When cooled, I followed this site directions. I love this ginger beer. I found bite perfect. My daughter thought it was a bit strong. That didn't stop her from drinking it! I'm going to have to keep some on hand for her too.