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Rebecca Butcher's avatar

What kind of bread yeast? Are we talking X2 sachets of Alison's instant Yeast? Could that work?

Hugo Baldwin's avatar

Hi Rebecca! Yes absolutely - I've successfully used the sachets before as well as loose yeast.

I've made a good few batches since the one that inspired this post and would recommend a few tweaks:

* Increasing the sugar to 3 or 4 cups when making 5 litres;

* Feel free to drop the ground ginger. the brew is still fiery (there's a lot of ginger root in there!) and is also less cloudy;

* If you don't have lemons on hand four mandarins split into segments work very well.

Ginger beer is almost infinitely customisable so experiment away!