We made it too, and the bottles were laid under the bathtub but on the ground and sometimes when in the bath you would hear them popping beneath the floor...... I know someone who still makes it, but I am fairly sure the original was a mixture of sultana grapes ginger sugar lemon juice water Elizabeth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Beasley" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 10:17 PM Subject: [AUS-VIC-West] sugar beer > Dear Thelma > Only guessing but we used to make ginger beer when I was a kid the main ingredient of which came from what was called a ginger beer "plant", as in the industrial meaning of the word, which resided on the top of our fridge and was continually fed with sugar and ginger to keep it fermenting. Every so often we would syphon of half the contents from what in effect was a large coffee jar,mixing that portion with water and lemon juice, bottle and cap about a dozen large beer bottles having first topped up the bottles with a final 1/2 tsp of sugar This we did on a weekly basis from late spring through mid summer by which time we had enough to last till well after summer Absolutely nothing like it and I have been remiss in not exposing my two to the joys of home made ginger beer You always knew when you had a good brew as they exploded on a regular basis under our house, which was our "cellar", especially in the hotter weather and we learnt to lay them apart from one another for fea! > r of a chain reaction which we experienced on a couple of occasions and no I dont remember the initial recipe but it wouldn't be too hard to track down.Of course this may not be what you were looking for but would love to know if you here any more regards > Chris Beasley > > > ==== AUS-VIC-WESTERN-DISTRICT Mailing List ==== > Penshurst Historical Society > www.vicnet.net.au/~penshist > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Dear Elizabeth, Many kind thanks for your email regarding the words in the letter to Augustus Bostock... Thanks to others who wrote also....It does become clear when someone else knows what it is all about.. Interesting indeed...Just enjoy your day... With thanks..Thelma (Bostock) Birrell We made it too, and the bottles were laid under the bathtub but on the ground and sometimes when in the bath you would hear them popping beneath the floor...... I know someone who still makes it, but I am fairly sure the original was a mixture of > sultana grapes > ginger > sugar > lemon juice > water > Elizabeth