The ginger drinks

em123 I love the flavour of ginger... cakes and biscuits etc. I've recently been trying lots of ginger drinks but they've all been too sweet for my liking. I would love to know of one that isn't too sugary, (alchoholic or non-alchoholic).

Rochester Ginger is something I've discovered only recently. It's a bit like ginger wine but non-alcoholic. It's quite strongly flavoured so it can take a bit of dilution, and mixes well with some fruit juices or to give a kick to non-alcoholic punch, etc. You can get it in health food shops such as Holland and Barratt.

Great stuff for when you've got a cold, mixed with some hot water and a splash of lemon juice or cordial. I find ginger good for any sort of wheeeziness or chestiness. Ginger and lemon teabags are a quick fix for this too.

Dh loves all things ginger and his usual day time drink if Belvoir Ginger cordial, he has a cup of Green Tea with ginger at bedtime. Strangely I think both of these are vile but love ginger biscuits and ginger cake. Mary Berry's Treacle and Ginger traybake is lovely.

MY BIL is a redhead and gamely enjoys ginger jokes even posing for us outside a bar called Ginger whilst pointing to his head.

Cawston do a lovely apple and ginger juice. Virgin trains used to serve it in First Class, and when lucky enough to have First Class seats it was my favourite. Otherwise, it's Fentimans ginger beer for me.

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.

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!

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.

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??

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.

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.

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 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?

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

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

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

Bottle green ginger and lemongrass, very nice

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 !

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

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.

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.

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!!!)

Belvoir ginger cordial and soda.

Whisky Mac - only Crabbies Green Ginger will do!

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.

Ginger wine, so warming.