Ginger beer

[Typo Fu Master]

Never heard of homemade soda pop before.

You have to be careful how much yeast you put in it. Let it go too long and POW! goes the bottle. I took pics of a couple that built up too much pressure. The bottom was blown out and the top was crushed.

I have never seen any of the brands mentioned available where I buy my beer and booze. I'd be willing to give a few of them a chance. I like a strong ginger flavor and everything I've ever tried from the store, regardless of alcohol content, was weak and barely tasted like ginger.

 

[seth6138]

Can't make a Moscow Mule without it!

 

[BotanyBoy]

Sounds like pumpkin beer...throw it in the trash and drink real beer instead.

 

[Rightguide]

Never heard of homemade soda pop before.

People used to make their own root beer and real beer for that matter. My granddad used to make Dandelion Wine.

 

[Froya]

I LOVE ginger beer!

Yes!

mmmm... dark and stormy with two lime wedges

Yes! Yes! Yes!

Fever Tree makes a good ginger beer, as well as great old style tonic water.

Fever Tree is my current favourite.

Sounds like pumpkin beer...throw it in the trash and drink real beer instead.

Ginger beer is generally as much a beer as root beer is; most that I've seen don't have any alcohol in them.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Ginger beer is generally as much a beer as root beer is; most that I've seen don't have any alcohol in them.

All the more reason not to waste your time with the shit.

 

[Typo Fu Master]

I tend to think of ginger beer as the alcoholic version of ginger ale. There are alcoholic versions of root beer available here that have the same ABV as regular beer and taste just like root beer. Not much choice of ginger beer near me though.

 

[Disgustipated]

Can't make a Moscow Mule without it!

The restaurant in the casino by my house makes a killer non-alcoholic Moscow Mule. They also serve the best Pho in our county.

 

[raindancer]

I love that warm burn in the back of my throat. Mmmmhmmm

 

[phrodeau]

Ginger is a root, so isn't ginger beer a root beer?

 

[Hard_Rom]

Root beer is gross!

Never had a alcoholic ginger beer.

 

[OldJourno]

well, we can no narrow down where frodo lives because i'd never heard of a soda tax so i had to fucking google it. not many places actually have that.

Philadelphia's soda tax is so successful people are losing their jobs right and left.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/opinio...ladelphia-s-new-soda-tax-leads-big-job-losses

The tax adds 1.5 cents per ounce — that’s 18 cents a can or $2.16 for a 12-pack — to any drink containing a sugar-based sweetener. Not only does it include sodas with natural sugar or high fructose corn syrup, but it also covers sports drinks, energy drinks, iced tea, lemonade, some milks and bottled waters and sugar-free sodas.
The city estimated the tax would raise $7.6 million per month for education programs and renovations to parks and rec centers. According to preliminary data, however, revenues are falling 70 percent short of projections.
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Turns out — and this is a real shocker — consumers aren’t eager to pay a premium tax for beverages when they can go across the city line and get the same product for far less. Now the city’s grocery stores and wholesalers say they’re shedding employees in order to offset the drop in sales.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Is ginger beer sweet like ginger ale?

 

[oggbashan]

How to make Ginger Beer:

https://delishably.com/beverages/How-to-Grow-Your-Own-Ginger-Beer-Plant

 

[phrodeau]

Philadelphia's soda tax is so successful people are losing their jobs right and left.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/opinio...ladelphia-s-new-soda-tax-leads-big-job-losses

The tax adds 1.5 cents per ounce — that’s 18 cents a can or $2.16 for a 12-pack — to any drink containing a sugar-based sweetener. Not only does it include sodas with natural sugar or high fructose corn syrup, but it also covers sports drinks, energy drinks, iced tea, lemonade, some milks and bottled waters and sugar-free sodas.
The city estimated the tax would raise $7.6 million per month for education programs and renovations to parks and rec centers. According to preliminary data, however, revenues are falling 70 percent short of projections.
*
Turns out — and this is a real shocker — consumers aren’t eager to pay a premium tax for beverages when they can go across the city line and get the same product for far less. Now the city’s grocery stores and wholesalers say they’re shedding employees in order to offset the drop in sales.

Maybe they can start selling marijuana instead.

Selling carbonated sugar water is a bad idea. Nearly as bad an idea as drinking it.

 

[Libsam]

Ginger is a root, so isn't ginger beer a root beer?

Fun facts!
The flavor of Root Beer is modeled after Sassafras' root flavor. Sassafras was used to make root beer back in the day, but the FDA banned it because of health concerns. There's some old studies saying it causes liver cancer in rats. But sassafras root, in the right quantities, can be a psychedelic- I think this may have been the real reason it was banned.

I've had sweet sassafras tea, when I was a kid. It tastes like root beer without the carbonation.

Also, the leaves of Sassafras are dried and powdered to make gumbo filé (pronounced fee-lay). There are two popular ways to thicken gumbo for its unique texture, with file and with okra. Okra goes in the pot early on and simmers in the soup during cooking. File is added in the last 30 minutes or so of the gumbo making process.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

Amazing how a thread can go from beer to sucking horses and back to sodee water.
When I think of ginger I think of female red heads and queers across the lagoon.

Let's have another Bud Lite.

All American soda at first was a medicine or drug.

 

[OldJourno]

Maybe they can start selling marijuana instead.

Selling carbonated sugar water is a bad idea. Nearly as bad an idea as drinking it.

I'd put it on a par with ginger beer. Having an occasional beer or soft drink is not a "bad idea." I'll go out on a limb and say having one of each on a daily basis, combined with a healthy dose of exercise and a proper diet, causes no harm at all.

 

[Rockymtnman]

mmmm... dark and stormy with two lime wedges

Yup! That's a great drink.

 

[raindancer]

Is ginger beer sweet like ginger ale?

Not really. Then again, I like a strong ginger ale that burns in my belly, also.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

Fever Tree is a damn good ginger beer. Lots of Moscow Mules get poured around here. More so with the warmer weather coming.

I don't think figging is really a thing. It is a big joke and the joke is on the person that tries it.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Philadelphia's soda tax is so successful people are losing their jobs right and left.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/opinio...ladelphia-s-new-soda-tax-leads-big-job-losses

The tax adds 1.5 cents per ounce — that’s 18 cents a can or $2.16 for a 12-pack — to any drink containing a sugar-based sweetener. Not only does it include sodas with natural sugar or high fructose corn syrup, but it also covers sports drinks, energy drinks, iced tea, lemonade, some milks and bottled waters and sugar-free sodas.
The city estimated the tax would raise $7.6 million per month for education programs and renovations to parks and rec centers. According to preliminary data, however, revenues are falling 70 percent short of projections.
*
Turns out — and this is a real shocker — consumers aren’t eager to pay a premium tax for beverages when they can go across the city line and get the same product for far less. Now the city’s grocery stores and wholesalers say they’re shedding employees in order to offset the drop in sales.

Doing the right thing is never easy and usually has costs. Especially when not every one buys in that water with a cup of sugar added is not a good thing to drink. Someone always willing to profit from someone else doing the right thing or standing on their principles.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Is ginger beer sweet like ginger ale?

Taste varies greatly. Some are just a bit more gingery than ginger ale. Old Tyme is like that. Vernors may have a more ginger kick. Some are pretty much a beer made from ginger. Lots of sugars in beers.

 

[OldJourno]

Doing the right thing is never easy and usually has costs. Especially when not every one buys in that water with a cup of sugar added is not a good thing to drink. Someone always willing to profit from someone else doing the right thing or standing on their principles.

Who is doing the right thing? This Philadelphia story is just about overtaxed people responding to even more taxes by shopping elsewhere.
And it's oh so heroic to raise those taxes and watch all those people lose their jobs.

 

[doowdniw]

Root beer is gross!

Never had a alcoholic ginger beer.

Try Crabbies ginger beer. 4.8% ABV