Making Lemonade – The biological approach

[speedy_thrills]

When I was a child we had this jar that contained a sort of frog spawn like substance that when left in a warm place with sugar, lemon slices and water in a jar carbonated the water making a sort of lemonade. Does anyone know what bacteria/yeast is used to do this? It seemed to proliferate quite nicely as well as we had to reduce the amount in the jar occasionally.

[Tuscan Tart]

http://www.microbiologyonline.org.uk/forms/gbeer.p...

Not lemonade, but we used to make this, it was delicious. Might give it a go myself.

[alman]

Does that ginger beer end up alcoholic?

[Tuscan Tart]

I presume it does, I'll let you know

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A827426

Non alcoholic version on that site.

[speedy_thrills]

Tuscan Tart said:

http://www.microbiologyonline.org.uk/forms/gbeer.p...

Not lemonade, but we used to make this, it was delicious. Might give it a go myself.

Thanks for your replay Tuscan (Usually when I call a girl a tart I get slapped so I might refrain from that for now). It’s really bizarre that I can’t find anything about it even by googling, I went round to a local company (I have a friend there who is a food technologist) and asked her but no-one had any idea either?!!