Re: [CH] Ginger Beer (was Chili flavor soda pop?)
chile head (chilehedz@hotmail.com)
Fri, 03 May 2002 10:01:31 -0400
>
>It's not a chili flavor, but I picked up a "fiery ginger beer" in
>a British food store made by Idris Drinks Co.
>
>It was a nice spicy ginger flavor.
>
> Scott Peterson
Ah.
I've had a ginger beer fetish since I was a wee lad (Does anyone else
remember Cock and Bull?).
At least on the east coast of the US, there are a lot of them available,
most of them pretty bad. (In my book, 'pretty bad' amounts to too sweet,
lacking in ginger, or both.) I've been disappointed with most of the West
Indian/Jamaican brands, even.
But one of the few I really like is (a) widely available, and (b)
ridiculously cheap.
The Goya version, tucked in there amongst the malta and the pineappple soda
(usually next to the Goya beans, condiments, etc. in the supermarket)
serves very nicely. Not the biggest ginger kick, but, unless you get an old
or off batch (which happens), it has a pleasant bite, and isn't
overwhelmingly sweet.
Usually costs somewhere around 50 cents a bottle.
Good stuff.
--d/pondering a Moscow Mule.....
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