Subj : Re: ginger beer
To   : Lightman
From : k9zw
Date : Wed Jun 02 2021 04:02 pm

On 02 Jun 2021, Lightman said the following...
 
 Li>  Sp> place not to far
 Li>  Sp> away from us the not only has excellent fish and chips but also a fir
 Li>  Sp> rate ginger beer. (They have been in business for close to 50 years.)
 Li>  Sp> Jeff
 Li>  Sp> 
 Li> 
 Li> Question: Is ginger beer ever served as a fermented bev? For that
 Li> matter, is any root beer? Is ginger beer considered a root-beer? 

Ginger Beer is much more ginger-flavored than ginger-ale 

Neither is alcoholic typically as found on the supermarket shelves.

Stateside you can get a stronger flavored Ginger Beer at Costco (and other
places) called Bundaberg (Australian made).

I think they actually "brew" theirs, and most is just flavored soda pop.

There are some craft brewers of traditional brewed Ginger Beer, but I think
they are mostly regionals.

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Root Beer is something different.

Interestingly it was originally made from bark rather than roots.

I have made a Root Beer Tincture which I later use to flavor Kombucha.  I
have the recipie in my Kombucha notebook.

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While many Europeans think Root Beer is odd tasting, the British do Dandelion
and Burdock soft drinks that are not so very different.  

Scots do them one up and do Irn-Bru which is flavored with Ammonium Ferric
Citrate and very synthetic tasting.  I'd say it really shouldn't be in the
brewed plant based drinks, but some folks lump it together.

I am sure there are others!

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