Yesterday I harvested my ginger beer and took these photos during the process. The green bottle featured in this post is a kombucha brewer and glass enthusiasts joy, an authentic Grosch style flip top bottle. More on the bottle later, but I couldn't help but talk about it.

This is how I know it's ready. It's actually a predictable and honestly pretty process.

See this is day two, when the fermented ginger starter lifts up into the brew as if possessed. It spends the day swirling around in there in the center. Day three, it has fallen. I can harvest then or on day four. I think I ended up somewhere inbetween.

Meanwhile feed the ginger bugs which as I speak are ready for a brew, and I'm not ready for them. What else is new in ginger bug land?

The tannish stuff is the wild yeast from the starter which ferments the brew.

See how it's settled and bubbly? Time to harvest. It'll just get stronger in flavor if you leave it eventually becoming really intense and honestly bitter.

I decided to flavor the green bottle with a little strawberry as I know you can flavor it like you can with kombucha to make different sodas. The green bottles are a random find where I only have four so they're personal and will likely never be sold to a customer. There's a story coming on them.