# Homemade Ginger Ale

This video demonstrates how to make homemade ginger ale and a blueberry ginger ale from scratch using simple ingredients.

- Total time: 15 min
- Cuisine: American
- Category: Drink
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 0.5 cup fresh ginger
- 0.5 cup filtered water
- 0.5 cup sweetener of choice (honey)
- fresh lemon juice
- sparkling water
- wild blueberries

## Instructions

1. Peel and chop the ginger.
2. Add the chopped ginger and water to a saucepan and bring to a simmer.
3. Once simmering, cover and turn the heat to low. Cook for 5 minutes.
4. Turn off the heat and let the ginger steep in the water for 10 minutes.
5. While the water is still warm, mix in the sweetener of choice until fully dissolved.
6. Transfer the ginger syrup to a swing top or pour spout bottle and let cool at room temperature before storing in the fridge.
7. For blueberry ginger ale, add frozen wild blueberries to a pot.
8. Add water and honey to the blueberries in the pot.
9. Bring to a simmer and cook to create blueberry syrup.
10. Pour the blueberry syrup into a bottle.
11. Cut the lemons in half.
12. Juice the lemons using a citrus juicer, straining the juice into a mason jar.
13. Add ginger syrup and sparkling water to the lemon juice in the jar.
14. To make blueberry ginger ale, add blueberry syrup to a glass filled with ice.
15. Pour the mixed ginger ale over the blueberry syrup and ice.
16. Garnish with a lemon slice.

## Equipment

- knife
- cutting board
- pot
- spoon
- bottle
- citrus juicer
- strainer
- glass

## Tips

- For blueberry ginger ale, add 1-2 oz of wild blueberry syrup.
- Adjust the ratios to sweeten to preference for the ginger ale.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1CoitVkzNj/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/4b26d7a1-3fdc-4c67-863e-cc52e44cafbb
- Extracted: 2025-08-20

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