The ginger drinks

Fresh ginger infused in hot water with lemon and honey added is my go to for colds. It has antibacterial properties. It also settles the stomach. I've never heard of ginger coke and don't think I would drink it if I had. I like Fevertree ginger ale.

Crabbys Ginger Beer for me please :-)

Pear and ginger cordial from Sainsbury's is delicious

Ginger wine, so warming.

I love ginger with anything, and Crabbie's is a favourite. Even though I once came to grief after sloshing it too liberally into Whisky Macs, thinking it was non-alcoholic.

That pear and ginger cordial sounds delicious.

Whisky Mac - only Crabbies Green Ginger will do!

Belvoir ginger cordial and soda.

I seem to remember my mum having a phase of making non alcoholic beer. It was some sort of culture that she grew in the larder. We got tired of drinking it after a while! Though I am not totally sure it was ginger. Anyone know? (Typed vulture instead of culture originally!!!)

When newly married, DH (now ex) and I made some ginger beer, I think it was made from a starter like Morgana describes, which you passed on to friends. One day we thought we had mice in the cupboard under the stairs so dragged all the junk out, only to discover that the squeaking was the ginger beer trying to get out of its caps!
I am not fond of ginger flavoured anything so have never tried any of the above products.

My husband loves ginger beer or ginger wine. We've finally found the diet ginger Pepsi which my DIL told us about and he says that's lovely too.

We used to grow (if that's the word) ginger when I was a kid to make ginger beer and yes - we did split it and give some to friends to brew theirs. As far as I remember it was just done with ginger powder from the canister.

Oh Crabbies yummy yummy I love ginger wine and ginger beer, so fattening though My Nan used to make fantastic ginger beer and I remember how we would hear the corks popping off when their fizz was fizzed enough I ve never tried making it Did it have yeast in it or am I muddling it up with something else she made ...I was only little

Yes - yeast and sugar and powdered ginger . We are just finishing off a batch now - it gets more fizz as the days go by so you have to keep an eye on it and release the pressure before the tops pop off !

Bottle green ginger and lemongrass, very nice

Had a disaster making ginger beer, that very hot summer - 1976? The tops blew off, the mess was awful.

Fentiman's Ginger Beer with a dash of lime for me please!

Lemon & ginger tea and 2 ginger biscuits mid morning or evening
sometimes both!
Oh forgot - toast and ginger jam with a cup of lemon & ginger tea.
Ginger anything
Big Ginger fan

I have heard that so many people love the ginger beer, but I never try it. So what the differences between the wheat beer and ginger beer?

What's wheat beer I ve never heard of that one ?

I d forgotten my delicious ginger jam on my toast Cherrytree I love those ginger cubes (sweets) too but they send me to the loo if I eat too many

I like ginger too (but I didn't when I was younger) - mostly in tea or used in baking. But I was musing recently about it being something that I only ever associated with "old ladies" - a bit like lavender... at 67, I like both.

I sometimes make a hot drink at bedtime - a small sugar cube, level teaspoon ground ginger, disolved in a little hot water. Top up with milk, microwave for a minute or so.
I sometimes have indigestion at night and this seems to settle my stomach.
Another idea (but not a drink) is to use a little grated root ginger with lemon juice and sugar, plus boiling water, cool and strain, as a syrup for fresh fruit salad.

Just love anything ginger - also good for clearing chesty coughs! It got me thinking about other drinks, has anyone ever had lilac wine? The song of the same name is beautiful but is the wine??

tricia that's a brilliant idea (the syrup). I sometimes poach clementine segments to have as a dessert with vanilla ice cream, the ginger syrup would work with that too as a warm dish.

Leading up to Christmas/New Year my mum always made Ginger Wine. If I remember correctly she bought a small bottle of Yulade concentrat (which she got in the Co-op!!) You boiled water & sugar and when the sugar had dissolved, added the concentrate, mixed it well & left it to cool. Delicious with a piece of her home-made shortbread Mmmmm!

I used to make ginger wine until a few years ago! I carried on when my MIL died. She used to make it for New Year. I stopped making it, as the only person who liked it was my DH.