Original homemade ginger wine recipes

[codswallop]

Does anyone know any of the above recipes,that are years old?I'm trying to recapture the taste of a certain recipe,that was lost a long time ago.Thanks.
ps The ones on line are mainly recent ingredients.

[albaqwerty]

Now you've got me thinking into my murky past.

I remember a small brown bottle of ginger wine concentrate wihich was added to a pot with water and sugar. Boiled, cooled and bottled. I'll investigate.

Can't ask any family members are they are now deceased.

[RATTER15]

I love ginger beer! I bought some ginger wine a few weeks back, it was gross, it went down the plug hole!

[boxtops]

Not the same, but I remember my mother having a vat of ginger beer growing on the kitchen window sill. Can you still do that?

[paddywak]

You can still get the concentrate alba, I can't remember the name but I noticed it on the shelf the last time I was in the home brew shop

[Buenchico]

This seems to be traditional (and quite potent!):
http://www.greenchron...tchen/ginger_wine.htm

A Scottish version:
http://www.rampantsco...recipe_gingerwine.htm

However tens of thousands of households will have used Mrs Beeton's recipe (which, since she was the ultimate plagiarist, is possibly many centuries old):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/...cipes/gingerwine_3487

Chris

[codswallop]

Thank you all for your replies.Those of you who didn't like ginger wine didn't try the recipe I'm trying to re-find it's delicious.Of the modern ones, you get a combination(mixture) of ingredients ....it's not the same,also most of the recent recipes include brandy or similar I don't recall any added spirit to the one I was hoping to get.

[alid5]

My recipe is simple 3.5 lbs sugar
6 pints of water
100ml ginger concentrate
and delicious everytime esp if you make it around now and leave for weeks more intense flavour :D