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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 16, 2009 19:29:35 GMT 2
Clearing the kitchen we came across a can of English ginger beer someone had given us. I think gin and ginger beer is called for before supper tonight.
The British occupied Corfu for about 12 years in the nineteenth century. Their legacy is confined to cricket and ginger beer. This is pronounced tsin tsin beera. I have watched a cricket match there and they still bowl under arm.
Right. It is Old Lady's gin and tsin tsin beera time now.
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Post by Ethel Mertz on Sept 16, 2009 19:38:54 GMT 2
I've never learned to like beer so know nothing of ginger beer. Is it so different from others, and does it have a distinct gingery taste?
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Post by missalaska on Sept 16, 2009 19:47:38 GMT 2
Oh lashings and lashing of! Love ginger beer. Lots of people here do home made stuff.
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Post by Voy on Sept 16, 2009 22:58:50 GMT 2
Ethel... it is wonderful.. and never to be confoozed with either beer or Merkin GingerAle... has a bite - excellent stuff.
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 16, 2009 23:00:42 GMT 2
Ethel, ginger beer is a misnomer. It is a fizzy ginger drink, no alcohol, no taste of beer at all. Gyro wouldn't touch it.
Ginger beer combined with normal beer makes the best shandy.
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Post by Tilly Star on Sept 16, 2009 23:02:26 GMT 2
Oh I am loving the sound of beer and ginger beer shandy. I just need me a hot summers day to try that out...oh erm... oh
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Post by Ethel Mertz on Sept 16, 2009 23:26:11 GMT 2
It is a fizzy ginger drink, no alcohol, no taste of beer at all. Gyro wouldn't touch it. I just might like it, then.
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 16, 2009 23:33:23 GMT 2
It is a great drink, very different from Canada Dry Ginger Ale (which I also like with brandy in South Africa).
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Post by charlie on Sept 17, 2009 7:41:42 GMT 2
I haven't even seen ginger beer in a very long time. I loved it when I was a kid.
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 20, 2009 17:57:50 GMT 2
Baz, also works fine with a blended whisky.
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Post by suzanneschuelke on Sept 21, 2009 1:10:29 GMT 2
Anybody ever had Detroit's Vernor's Ginger Ale. It is by far my favorite soda; a proper ginger beer. It is owned by a conglomerate now which feels the need to call it a Ginger soda so that people don't think it tastes like Canada Dry. I would think it a bit strong and bubbly to be mixed with alcohol but it tastes wonderful.
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