Yeast

Their is natural yeast 

Also man made yeast that is in a bottle 

Their is over a thousand kinds of yeast 

 

 Equipment 

Spoons 

Kettle 

Bowl

Beaker 

cloth sieve

Funnel 

Plastic pet bottle and cap .

 

Materials 

Bug for a group of 3 

50ml of water 

½ Tsp of water 

½ Tsp of sugar 

½ Tsp of ginger 

Ginger beer for 1 liter 

¾ Cup of sugar 

½ Tsp of tartar 

1L Of cold water 

Juice of ½ lemon 

1 Tsp of ginger  beer bug 

Method 

1 In a large bowl put the sugar and cream of tatar then add the warm water . 

2 Stir to dissolve the sugar before adding the cold water 

3 Add the ginger beer bug to the large bowl of cold water 

4 Stir well then add it in the clean bottle 

5 label your bottle with your group names

6 Place the bottle in a class container 

7 Store it in a cool dark place for one week before drinking 

8 Make sure you open the bottle in the kitchen sink as it might overflow and open the cap bit by bit to allow the air to escape.

What is fermentation ?

What effect does sugar have in yeast ?

carbon dioxide 

What are 3 foods that have yeast  ?

 

Beer bread muffin 

Today we made ginger beer in class we did this by activating the yeast first by adding sugar to the yeast putting some ginger and warm water in the cup together .once we had done this we put the ginger beer and left to ferment while we made the rest of the ginger beer we made the ginger beer in a ice cream 0-then the lemon juice then lastly the ginger beer bug once everything was mixed we put it in a bottle it is going to take 6 days to turn into ginger beer Mr parmer is going to keep it in his office for the next week