Ginger Beer: S/D

destroy: everything else

ipso OTM

Destroy: Idris. Tastes of sacharine and aspertame, not gingery goodness.

DG is good, yes, especially the extra strong.

also nice is Fentimann's, but it's stupid expensive.

That said, I like the cat with the sunglasses on that one bottle.

I went to Safeway this morning and saw that awful notice about the rebranding. And all I could think was "don't ruin the ginger beer...!!!"

(And also thought about Chris when noting their boasts of their being the "best off liscence in a supermarket" or whatever and wondering about their beer.)

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the OP had it right, Goya is the best ginger beer that I have been able to find.

ginger beer + lager is the best shandy ever.

Fucking classic. Get some vodka and a lime, and you've got a Moscow Mule (sort of).

what are some ginger beers that are not too sweet? some of them are like whoaaaa

i noticed goslings is making their own ginger beer for the D&S's now.

i have some reed's in my fridge, but it isn't nearly as good as goose island. (local chicago brewed amazing amazing stuff)

Fucking classic. Get some vodka and a lime, and you've got a Moscow Mule (sort of).

Yessir. Unfortunately I've found the only way to get the lime taste to "infuse" at all is to leave it in the vodka for about 20 minutes before adding ginger beer and drinking, which I am normally too impatient for. But classic with or without vodka.

Had some with Southern Comfort the other day and that was pretty good but maybe would've been too sweet had I had more than a tiny glass of it.

Love a Moscow Mule but I'll be damned if it isn't the dumbest non-shooter name for an alcoholic beverage.

I like Thomas Kemper's ginger ale but they don't sell it around here.

homemade

I like Maine Root. Has a nice, not too sugary sweet, flavor, and a mellow spice.

Yessir. Unfortunately I've found the only way to get the lime taste to "infuse" at all is to leave it in the vodka for about 20 minutes before adding ginger beer and drinking, which I am normally too impatient for. But classic with or without vodka.

Would it not be worth slicing lime (or peeling some zest) and putting it into the bottle to infuse? Assuming you're planning to drink a bottle's worth of Moscow Mules, of course!

Hmm, it probably would but I use the vodka for other things too and don't forward-plan enough. I could maybe just buy some lime vodka, except I've found all the fruit-flavoured vodkas I've tried kind of disgusting. Like the idea though - next time I'm near the end of a bottle I'll buy a new one and try that with the old one. (Err, wait, that's now, except I'll probably have finished the bottle before I remember to buy more)

I hope it looks less disgusting than when the other half attempted some home-made limoncello and the colour leached out of the lemon rinds so they looked like potato peelings decaying at the bottom.

"scotsTVO" - any relation to Glaswegian electronic music dude TVO?

fuck ginger

"scotsTVO" - any relation to Glaswegian electronic music dude TVO?
--subtyll cauillacyons (a passing spacecadet)

We share a city, but any other likeness is purely coincidental.

Sitting and drinking Moscow Mule, chilling, only slightly wishing it wasn't made of the only brand of vodka and the only brand of ginger beer in the random cheap cornershop I happened to walk past earlier when all the other shops were shut (Sundays in Britisherville outside London = everything shuts at 4pm)

went to pub the other day, saw D+G ginger beer in fridge, asked barman for one of those + vodka, guy sliced and twisted some lime in without me asking = classic (unless you are allergic to lime I guess)

We have a Sainsbury Local and a Tesco local open til midnight :p

Aw, we have a Tesco local right opposite but it shuts at 4pm on Sunday. Angry letter time! (nah, can't be arsed)

Corner shop is also an Indian takeaway and will deliver you a loaf of bread, a pint of milk and a packet of fags along with yr Sunday night "oh shit, I forgot to buy anything" curry, however. Also I went in and the guy was listening to some nutty pseudoscientific explanation of perpetual motion machines on youtube, amplified over the shop PA

Mmmm, want curry

Reading Draft Ginger Beer is pretty good. Just burny enough. I am totally on a ginger beer kick these last couple of years, love Bundaberg, Bruce Cost, Cock & Bull...

Had a Dark and Stormy with dark rum and Bundaberg the other night, it was so good.