Homemade Ginger Beer - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 cup brown sugar
5 oz fresh ginger, peeled and chopped
None None zest and juice of 1 lime
None None zest of 1 orange
None None Crushed ice, to serve
None None Mint sprigs, to garnish

Preparation

Bring 4 cups water and the sugar to a boil, stirring. Add the ginger and cook for 1-2 mins. Place the lime zest and orange zest in a pitcher and mix in the lime juice. Pour in the hot ginger syrup then leave to cool at room temperature.
Place the pitcher in the fridge and chill for 1-2 hours. Pour the ginger beer through a fine sieve. Serve the ginger beer over ice and garnish with mint. Serve.