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 LOCATION: Recipes >> Drink Recipes >> Ginger Beer 04
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Write an ON-LINE REVIEW and share your thoughts with others. 1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Reviewer: Anonymous from UK try it before you run your mouth off and learn to spell Was this review helpful to you? Yes No
Reviewer: Anonymous from Scranton, PA USA Yeasts constitute a group of unicellular fungi, which are distinct from both plants and humans... Fungi are not true plants because they are heterotrophs (they do not fix their own carbon through photosynthesis but use the carbon fixed by other organisms.) Fungi are more closely related to animals, but unlike animals they are saprotrophic (they absorb their food rather than ingest it) and their cells have cell walls surrounding them. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No
Reviewer: Anonymous from NY USA Sam's right I'm afraid. This is not a real ginger beer plant and should be touted as such. The real GBP, as a simple web search would reveal, requires the specific strains of yeast and bacteria S. pyriformis and B. vermiforme. Bakers yeast is hardly an adequate substitute Was this review helpful to you? Yes No 5 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
Reviewer: Sam from NZ You cannot make a ginger beer plant. It is a natural mix of science. YOU ARE A LIER Was this review helpful to you? Yes No 9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
Reviewer: Mike from Broken Hill, Australia This is a great summer project to do with the kids, and produces a lovely drink, best served ice cold or else it is a bit too sweet. Good for teaching children that yeast is a plant, and to care for it you must feed it with sugar. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No 2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Reviewer: T.G. from Sweden Perhaps Sam from NZ. will one day grow up. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No 2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Reviewer: An unrepentant pedant from Cornwall Strictly speaking the very angry man from NZ is right. The real deal is made with not just yeast, but a symbiotic culture based on the yeast Saccharomyces pyriformis and the bacterium Brevibacterium vermiforme. (That weird flying saucer thing that makes kombucha tea is also a yeast/bacterium compound, only much, much less nice.) So this isn't quite the real thing, but it must be how they were doing it originally when someone got lucky and got that magic combination, and since the result is a mildly alcoholic drink made by the action of yeast on a ginger solution, well, it is A ginger beer. To anyone who remembers the real thing it will never be THE ginger beer, but the plant (or mother) is now very hard to find and this is still nice. Who knows, maybe you could even get lucky and have your yeast culture infected with the right bacterium. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No 
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Ginger Beer 04
