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[Gwynydd of Culloden]

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I really did mean "ginger beer" rather than "ginger ale" - at least in Australia ginger beer is much more gingery and more likely to have lees than ginger ale (which looks like what it is - coloured, flavoured carbonated water - only good as a mixer).  Some brands of Ginger Beer here may in fact be brewed - they are the most wonderful experience on earth (or very nearly!).  

Well, it is nice to know that neither myself nor my Lady is quite right about this one (and even nicer to know, according to Magdelena's description, that I am "correcter"!)

Gwynydd

At 2000-03-31 04:01:03.328001, 
Magdalena (magdlena at earthlink.net) wrote:
> Root beer and ginger ale are not at all the same thing.  
> Ginger ale, rather than ginger beer, is the usual name for the 
> carbonated (usually) soda made primarily from ginger, with 
> additional flavoring from lemon and sometimes tartaric acid and 
> sometimes vanilla.  Raspberry ginger ale is also very
> good.  ;>
>     Root beer is usually a carbonated soda made with sarsaparilla 
> as the primary ingredient, with optional flavorings such as 
> wintergreen, spearmint, nutmeg, anise, vanilla, cinnamon, and 
> molasses.  Birch beer is frequently mixed up with root beer, and 
> I've seen it sold under the name root beer.  They
> do taste quite similar.
>     My favorite ginger ale is the stuff I make myself.  ;>  The 
> best root beer in the world is Virgil's Special Edition Bavarian 
> Nutmeg Root Beer, imported from Bavaria, for which I happily pay 
> 6$ US per pint.  Their regular stuff is excellent, but expensive 
> for the taste.  I'm very fond of the extract
> I buy at the homebrew store, but the brand escapes me.
> 
> -Magdalena
> (who adores ginger ale and root beer)


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