1. To make your plant; in a jar mix 4 tbsp of sugar and 4 tbsp of ginger together with the yeast and the cup of water. The water must be filtered as the chemicals used to clean water can prevent fermentation.
2. Cover the jar with a cloth (I usually secure it with an elastic band) and leave it in a warm room.
3. Every day for the next 6 days as 1tbsp of sugar and 1 tbsp of ginger.
4. On day seven place some muslin in a funnel and pour your mixture through. Squeeze as much liquid out as you can. Place the mixture left in the muslin back into the jar and add another cup of filtered water, this will now be ready for starting again next week.
5. To make your drink boil 1 litre of water with 1 cup of sugar until dissolved to make sugar syrup.
6. Add the liquid from the ginger plant to 3 litres of water, the sugar syrup and juice of two lemons.
7. Decant this into a demijohn and leave t stand for a week (alternatively use bottles but do not put the lids on as they will explode)
8. After a week decant into bottles and store somewhere cool to pause fermentation. You can now drink it.
9. To maintain your ginger plant continue to feed using instructions from step 3.

*Tips*

If you are not using your plant you can keep it in the fridge. if you do this you need to bring it up to room temperature once a week to feed it 1tbsp of sugar and 1 tbsp of ginger
You can also freeze it for longer periods of time. just make sure the mixture is at room temperature before feeding.