Botanical
Ginger bug
Ginger bug is a botanical with no alcohol in it, not yet used in a drink on this site.
Ginger bug.jpg by EliseEtc
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cropped, white-balanced, graded and re-encoded to WebP by eXir.
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cropped, white-balanced, graded and re-encoded to WebP by eXir.
A close-up of a bubbling ginger bug fermentation culture, cloudy liquid with ginger pieces
Composition
Strengthnone
Densitynot carried
Sugarnot carried
Acid—
Energy0 kcal per 100
Animal originNone
Allergensnone listed
A wild culture of yeast and bacteria built up over several days by feeding grated ginger and sugar water, used a spoonful at a time to inoculate a larger batch. What it carries into that batch is a live culture rather than a measurable food, so no composition is claimed here; the sugar and ginger it was fed on are each already accounted for on their own ingredient records where a recipe uses them directly.
Used in these drinks
most firstNothing on the site uses this yet. It is here because a preparation or a drink names it.