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  Fill your preferred drinking bottle with water and add a little bit of extra water to it as some of it will evaporate later. Your chosen bottle will determine how much ginger root you will be using

• Wash the ginger under some running water. I leave the skin intact. Not only is the skin edible, but it is perhaps the healthiest part of the spice. I use a big chunk of ginger for 500ml and add more if I use more water

• Cut the ginger in either slices and/or chunks

  • Slice your lemon, lime or citron

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  Add your water to a saucepan and bring it to a boil. Let the water boil for a minute or two and then reduce the heat to a simmer.

• Add your ginger pieces to the water.

  • Add the cinnamon stick

• Let it simmer for about 10 minutes and then remove it from the heat

  • Let it cool off for a bit and then add your lime, lemon or citron slices

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  Now let it cool and steep for at least one hour, preferrably a couple of hours

• Strain the juice through a fine-mesh strainer into your drinking bottle, flask or jug

  • Add a tbsp of honey and stir until the honey is sufficiently dissolved

Store or Freeze

• Ginger water will keep up to around two weeks in the refrigerator

Play around & be creative

• Mix the ingredients up to keep it interesting

• Experiment with other ingredients like: vanille bean/extract, nutmeg, cloves, mint or perhaps some cocunut