Probiotic Rhubarb (waste) Beer
This fermented, probiotic beer/soda if by far my favourite wild fermented soda I have ever made and what’s even better about it, is it’s made from the waste parts of the rhubarb, like all the stringy bit and the ends.
Ingredients:
Roughly 500g of waste rhubarb (after using the good parts of the rhubarb for something else)
375ml sugar
2 lemons, juiced
6L of water
1x ginger bug (or make one here)
Directions:
- Put rhubarb, and 2L of water into a large pan and bring to the boil. Once boiling simmer for 30mins.
- Take off the heat and add the sugar and stir until dissolved.
- Strain the rhubarb from the liquid and then add the other 4L of cold water and the juice of the two lemons.
- The liquid should be cool now, add the ginger bug and stir. Pour this all into a large plastic bucket or glass jar (not metal). Put lid on and leave for 24hrs in a warm place.
- After 24hrs it should smell like ginger beer and be bubbling. If not give it a little more ginger and sugar and leave another 24hrs.
- Sieve again as you pour it into plastic bottles but leave at least 3/4 inches empty at the top.
- Leave in a cool place until you wish to drink, which should be a minimum of 5 days later (be careful when opening as it may be lively).
- All or most of the sugar will be eaten up by the fermentation process.
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