> When I was very young (a long time ago in a Galaxy....etc.) we used to[color=blue]
> make very nice ginger beer from a ginger beer plant. I no longer have
> the recipe but the following, found on the WWW, looks identical:-
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Yup, did the same.

Like all good fermented things, it improves immensely with age. Patience is
well rewarded if it can be left to mature for a few months.

Mike