Homemade Ginger Beer

This home-brew remains a favourite party drink in a Welsh household for both adults and children. You will need eight pint bottles or four quart bottles. They should be of a strong material and have firm caps with metal springs to imprison the effervescent liquid it's more explosive than champagne.
 * Makes 1 gallon.

Ingredients

 * 2 oz fresh ginger
 * 2 lemons
 * 1 tsp cream of tartar
 * 1 lbs sugar
 * 1 gallon boiling water
 * 1 oz yeast

Directions

 * 1) Roughly crush the ginger root.
 * 2) Wash and slice the lemons into thick rings.
 * 3) Put the ginger, lemon, cream of tartar and sugar in a large bowl.
 * 4) Pour the boiling water over.
 * 5) Stir and leave to cool to blood temperature.
 * 6) Stir in the yeast.
 * 7) Leave to ferment for 24 hours.
 * 8) Skim off the yeast.
 * 9) Strain and bottle the liquid.
 * 10) Leave for three days before broaching it.