"London is home to six of world's top restaurants"

On Wed, 2 May 2007 09:31:41 +0100, "RAK" wrote:

there is one small scale manufacturer (in bottles).

Do you mean Fentimans, or is there something even more "authentic"?
According to Wikipedia (some of) the traditional ginger beers contained
alcohol, up to 11%, but I have not seen any like that for sale.

thats it! 11% sounds stronger than anything ive come across.
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Following up to Martin :

On Wed, 2 May 2007 09:31:41 +0100, "RAK" wrote:


"The Reid" wrote in message
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On Wed, 02 May 2007 09:44:01 +0200, Tim C.
wrote:

The popularity of the ginger beer plant died out. The commercial, canned
ginger beer of today is very different. It doesn't contain alcohol and
isn't made by fermentation."

there is one small scale manufacturer (in bottles).

Do you mean Fentimans, or is there something even more "authentic"?
According to Wikipedia (some of) the traditional ginger beers contained
alcohol, up to 11%, but I have not seen any like that for sale.

Fentimans also make some other good traditional drinks - lemonade, etc.
http://www.fentimans.com/

It doesn't take much effort with google to find suppliers of ginger beer plants

http://www.hamstead-brewing-centre.co.uk/itm00986.htm

This one is just brewers' yeast and citric acid supplied in a tub with some
ginger powder. I know because it says so on the packet you get when you get
it.


http://www.dsmz.de/strains/no002484.htm

That's the one I mentioned earlier. It looks like they've updated thier
"shop" as I had serious trouble trying to get anything off them before (but
maybe I shouldn't have ordered the anthrax spores at the same time ;-) )


http://users.chariot.net.au/~dna/Mak...#Kefir-d-acqua
A similar creature - I've heard using kefir grains produces quite good
results, but I haven't tried it.


DIY
www.microbiologyonline.org.uk/forms/gbeer.pdf
Also uses just yeast.

http://www.omicron.uk.com/g-beer.html
ditto.
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Tim C.

On 25 abr, 13:56, The Reid wrote:


Plenty of Spanish waiters around here, and not just Spanish restaurants.
I've often spoken to them in Spanish as a way to get their attention-
i.e. la cuenta!

interesting, haven't seen one for a while here.


They're all in Dublin now!


J.

Following up to Martin :


I suspect that most ginger beer when I was a kid just used yeast.

Have you any evidence to the contrary? Maybe you should try making it with just
yeast. Almost certainly better than anything sold as ginger beer in a bottle.

I have. It's fine.
I'm pretty sure my mum made it with a pale-coloured slimy thing in a jar -
or maybe that was just my dad. It was a long time ago.
--
Tim C.

On 2 May 2007 02:37:00 -0700, Jordi wrote:

interesting, haven't seen one for a while here.


They're all in Dublin now!

makes sense.
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On Apr 24, 8:53 am, The Reid wrote:
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:30:57 +0100, "Ian F."

wrote:
Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck was the only British
restaurant on the list outside London.

*just* outside and where lots of wealthy Londoners live.

The six were Le Gavroche, St John's*, Nobu,Hakkasan, Restaurant Gordon
Ramsay* and the River Café*.

I haven't been to them all (* I have) but I would put Ramsay ahead of
the other two and I would return to Hospital Road but not to the Fat
Duck.

I was at Hakkasan yesterday for the first time and was surprised by
its inclusion on this list - while the cooking was certainly very good
indeed and I'd happily return, neither cuisine nor ambience seemed to
have that factor that lifts a restaurant above the excellent and into
the realms of the special, IYKWIM.