ginger ale
Sign in to savecarbonated soft drink flavored with ginger
Key facts
- Type
- Soft drink
- Origin
- Ireland and Canada
- Introduced
- 1851 (golden), 1904 (dry) and Southern Ontario , Canada
- Colour
- Golden
- Flavour
- Ginger
- Variants
- Golden and dry
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Ginger ale is a carbonated soft drink (not an ale) flavoured with ginger. It is consumed on its own or used as a mixer, often with spirit-based drinks. There are two main types of ginger ale. The golden style is credited to the Irish doctor Thomas Joseph Cantrell. The dry style (also called the pale style), a paler drink with a much milder ginger flavour, was created by Canadian John McLaughlin.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ginger ale” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.