Ginger ale is a carbonated soft drink flavoured with ginger. It is consumed on its own or used as a mixer, often with spirit-based drinks. There are two main types of ginger ale. The golden style is c
Vernors golden ginger ale
1916 Toronto Star ad for Canada Dry ginger ale
Glasses of ginger ale with wedges of limes
Ginger beer is a sweetened and carbonated, usually non-alcoholic, type of soft drink. Historically it was a type of beer brewed by the natural fermentation of prepared ginger spice, yeast and sugar. M
Ginger ale
…called the pale style), a paler drink with a much milder ginger flavour, was created by Canadian John McLaughlin. Ginger ale is transparent, whereas ginger beer, a stronger tasting product, is often cloudy due to the residues of brewing. Thomas Joseph Cantrell, an Irish apothecary and surgeon, manufactured the…
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R. White's soft drinks, including ginger beer, sold in England in the early 1900s
Bottle of ginger beer produced on Ponsonby Road, Auckland, New Zealand, circa 1900
Homemade ginger beer served at a bar