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Chow Ginger Beer Recipe

This is a recipe for making ginger beer from scratch (that is, with natural yeast), so of course we can't guarantee that it is going to work, because the yeast...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Chow Ginger Beer Recipe

Why it works: Ginger and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,154 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Chow Ginger Beer Recipe

4 (22-ounce) bottles plus 1 test bottle (about 3 quarts)

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

14Calories
0 gProtein
0 gFat
4 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 3 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 2 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Ginger + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,154 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs