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Andy Burns wrote:
Chris Hogg wrote:

If you didn't know anyone with a 'ginger beer plant' you could start
your own simply with yeast, sugar, water and ginger. I don't know if
it was brewers yeast or bakers yeast;

Apparently the 'true' ginger beer plant is not just yeast, but a
symbiotic mixture of a particular rare yeast and a bacteria ...

https://www.gingerbeerplant.net/about.html

You can buy starter kits there, though rather against the original
spirit of the GBP, you're not allowed to give it away.
Nuts. That's about as likely as the claims that true bread, sourdough,
ale or lager yeast is something in particular. When made in open
conditions, such mixtures evolve to be whatever is appropriate for the
particular location, feedstock and growing method.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.