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Ginger ale

Ginger ale is a carbonated

Carbonation

Carbonation occurs when carbon dioxide is solvation in water or an aqueous solution. This process yields the "fizz" to carbonated water and sparkling mineral water, the Beer head to beer, and the cork pop and bubbles to Champagne and sparkling wine....
soft drink

Soft drink

A soft drink is a beverage that does not contain alcohol. Carbonated soft drinks are commonly known as soda, soda pop, pop, coke or tonic in various parts of the United States, pop in Canada, fizzy drinks in the United Kingdom and Australia and sometimes minerals in Ireland....
flavored with ginger

Ginger

Ginger is a spice which is used for cooking and is also consumed whole as a delicacy or medicine. It is the rhizome of the Zingiber, Zingiber officinale....
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is an uncommon, and usually regional, drink.

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Ginger ale is a carbonated

Carbonation

Soft drink

Ginger

Ginger is a spice which is used for cooking and is also consumed whole as a delicacy or medicine. It is the rhizome of the Zingiber, Zingiber officinale....
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History

Ginger ales come in two varieties: golden ginger ale and dry ginger ale. Golden ginger ale, dark colored and strong flavored, is the older style. Dry ginger ale was developed during Prohibition

Prohibition

Prohibition of alcohol, often referred to simply as prohibition, also known as The Noble Experiment, refers to a sumptuary law which prohibits alcohol....
when ginger ale was used as a mixer for alcoholic beverages as the strong flavor of golden ginger ale was undesirable. Dry ginger ale quickly surpassed golden ginger ale in popularity, and today, golden ginger ale is an uncommon, and usually regional, drink. Vernors, Blenheim

Blenheim Ginger Ale

Blenheim Ginger Ale is a ginger ale bottled by Blenheim Bottlers in Hamer, South Carolina, Dillon County, South Carolina. It was originally bottled in Blenheim, South Carolina, Marlboro County, South Carolina....
, Bull's Head, Chelmsford, and Red Rock are brands of golden ginger ale, while Canada Dry

Canada Dry

Seagram

The Seagram Company Ltd. was a large corporation headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada that was the largest Distilled beverage of alcoholic beverages in the world....
's are major brands of dry ginger ale.

Ginger ale occupies a small niche in the soda market. While vending machines and soda fountains rarely contain ginger ale, the drink is a staple on supermarket shelves, in bars, and on airlines.

Manufacturing

Brands available in North America

North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
include Canada Dry

Canada Dry

Seagram

Sussex Golden Ginger Ale

Sussex Golden Ginger Ale is a "golden" ginger ale originally bottled in the town of Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada. It is produced by Cadbury Beverages Canada Inc., a subsidiary of Cadbury-Schweppes and is sold in the Maritime Provinces of Canada....
, Buffalo Rock

Buffalo Rock

Buffalo Rock Company is an independent Pepsi bottler based in Birmingham, Alabama and founded in 1901. In addition to bottling Pepsi products, the company produced Grapico in 1981, a grape tasting soft drink, and a ginger ale under its own brand name....
, Boylan Bottling Company

Boylan Bottling Company

Boylan Bottling Company is an United States gourmet soft drink manufacturer. They were located in Haledon, New Jersey, New Jersey from the late 1950s until 2001 and then moved to Clifton, New Jersey for a short time before moving to Moonachie, New Jersey, where they are currently located....
, Polar Beverages

Polar Beverages

Polar Beverages is a fourth-generation, family-owned business that traces its roots back to 1882 and is based in Worcester, Massachusetts, Massachusetts....
, Ale-8-One

Ale-8-One

Ale-8-One, known colloquially as Ale-8, is a regional ginger-flavored soft drink, distributed only in Kentucky and portions of neighboring United States states Indiana and Ohio....
, Blenheim Ginger Ale

Blenheim Ginger Ale

Foxon Park

Foxon Park is a soft drink brand produced by Foxon Park Beverage Company. The company is located in East Haven, Connecticut and has been in business for more than 80 years....
, Sprecher

Sprecher Brewery

Sprecher Brewery is a brewery founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, by Randal Sprecher in 1985. Sprecher produces an assortment of beers and sodas....
, Vally, Market Basket/Chelmsford, Red Rock, Reed's Ginger Brew, Thomas Kemper, Chek

Chek

Chek, River of Dreams, and its Spanish language equivalent Rio de Sue?os are all private label soft drink brands sold exclusively at Winn-Dixie supermarkets....
(River of Dreams), and Northern Neck Ginger Ale.

Vernors is a flavored golden ginger ale aged for four years in oak barrels before bottling. It was the first U.S. soft drink, originating in 1866, although it was modelled on imported Irish

Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
ginger beers. In Detroit

Detroit, Michigan

Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Wayne County, Michigan. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwestern United States of the United States....
, Michigan

Michigan

Michigan is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States of America. It was named after Lake Michigan, whose name is a French adaptation of the Anishinaabe language term mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
, a drink made with vanilla

Vanilla

Vanilla is a flavoring derived from orchids of the genus Vanilla native to Mexico. Etymologically, vanilla derives from the Spanish language word "", little pod....
ice cream

Ice cream

Ice cream or ice-cream is a frozen dessert usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, combined with fruits or other ingredients....
and Vernors ginger ale is called a Boston cooler. The name is not taken from Boston

Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
, where this combination is unknown, but from an establishment on Boston Boulevard in Detroit where it is said to have been invented.

Blenheim is a golden ginger ale made in South Carolina; unlike most other brands, it is available in several degrees of spiciness: Old #3 Hot, #5 Not as Hot, #9 Diet, and #11 Ginger Beer.

Ingredients

Ginger ale commonly contains ginger, sugar, and carbonated water

Carbonated water

Carbonated water, also known as sparkling water, fizzy water and seltzer, is plain water into which carbon dioxide gas has been dissolved, and is the major and defining component of most soft drinks....
. Ginger ale can also contain yeast when carbonated with natural fermentation. Ginger content is often listed on labels in a general natural aroma or natural flavoring statement, to preserve secrecy of the complex proprietary mix of spices, fruits and other flavors used. Lemon, lime

Lime

Lime may refer to:...
and cane sugar are the most common of ingredients. Pineapple

Pineapple

Pineapple is the common name for an edible tropical plant and also its fruit. It is native to the southern part of Brazil, and Paraguay. This herbaceous plant perennial plant grows to tall with 30 or more trough-shaped and pointed leaves long, surrounding a thick plant stem....
and honey

Honey

Honey is a sweet fluid produced by honey bees , and derived from the nectar of flowers. According to the United States National Honey Board and various international food regulations, "honey stipulates a pure product that does not allow for the addition of any other substance?this includes, but is not limited to, water or other sweeteners...
are also occasional ingredients.

Usage

Ginger ale is used as a home remedy

Home remedy

A home remedy is a treatment to cure a disease or ailment that employs certain spices, vegetables, or other common items. Home remedies may or may not have medicinal properties that treat or cure the disease or ailment in question, as they are typically passed along by laypersons ....
to prevent or alleviate motion sickness

Motion sickness

Motion sickness or kinetosis is a condition in which a disagreement exists between visually perceived movement and the vestibular system's sense of movement....
, to relieve upset stomachs and to soothe coughs and sore throat

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s. It contains high levels of sugar, which can cause an osmotic

Osmosis

Osmosis is the diffusion of a solvent through a Semipermeable membrane, from a solution of low solute concentration to a solution with high solute concentration , up a solute concentration gradient....
shift that can affect the bowels more than the desired effect of the ginger.

It is popular in mixed drink

Mixed drink

A mixed drink is a type of Drink in which two or more ingredients are mixed.Some broad categories of mixed drinks are:* Cobbler ? A beverage made with wine or sherry, citrus juice, and sugar...
s, especially in non-alcoholic mixed drinks. It is sometimes used as a non-alcoholic substitute for champagne, since the beverages resemble each other in appearance.

Variations

Dry ginger ale is also sold with a mint

Mentha

Mentha is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the Family Lamiaceae . Species within Mentha have a cosmopolitan distribution distribution across Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and North America....
flavoring added. Popular brands of mint ginger ale include Tom Tucker Southern Style, and Cott (which no longer produces this flavor). Some mint ginger ale brands have an artificial green color

Food coloring

A food coloring is any substance that is added to food or drink to change its color. Food coloring is used both in commercial food production and in domestic cooking....
added, while others are clear in color. Recently, Canada Dry

Canada Dry

File:Canada Dry logo.svg Canada Dry is a brand of soft drinks marketed by Dr Pepper/Seven Up, a unit of Dr Pepper Snapple Group. Canada Dry is best known for its ginger ale, but also manufactures a number of other soft drinks and drink mixers....
has come out with a line of ginger ale mixed with green tea.

Some manufacturers have produced fruit-flavored ginger ales, including raspberry, cranberry and grape flavored versions of Schweppes.

Ginger beer

Ginger beer

Ginger beer is a carbonation soft drink that is flavored primarily with ginger, lemon, and sugar. It is rarely produced as an alcoholic beverage....
is a similar soft drink that typically has a stronger flavor of ginger, and is less carbonated and less sweet. Homemade ginger beer may contain alcohol

Alcoholic beverage

An alcoholic beverage is a drink containing ethanol . Alcoholic beverages are divided into three general classes: beers, wines, and distilled beverage....
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Ginger ale

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Ingredients

Usage

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