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To be clear, the drinks labeled ginger beer in every store i've been to is VERY different from the one labeled ginger ale
IIRC, ginger beer is actually brewed like a beer with the carbonation coming from fermenting something. Ginger ale is just a ginger flavored soda, where the carbonation is added artificially.
That's not the case. "Ale" is a type of beer. In any case, carbonated ginger beverages, regardless of name, were traditionally carbonated by fermentation, but modern mass market sodas are often artificially carbonated and flavored.
Traditionally yes. But that hasn't been the case since, like, the 40's or 50's when soda fountains became huge. Even most modern root beer like A&W, Mug, and Barqs aren't technically root beer, in the traditional sense. It might be different regionally, but here where I am if you go to a store and see ginger ale and ginger beer both being sold, they aren't the same thing.
Yeah both root beer and ginger ale were historically made via a brewing process, often brewed to rather low ABV because the flavor of the spices was mostly the point, and with the invention of the soda fountain it became typical to make them by adding soda water to flavored syrup.
You will get different things if you ask a bartender for a "ginger beer" or a "ginger ale."
This is really at the core of what I was trying to say. If i asked for a drink with gi ger beer in it and received one with ginger ale in the place of the ginger bee, I'd consider that incorrect, regardless of either beverage's history
At least in Australia, Bundaberg Ginger Beer is brewed traditionally still. Tastes way better than artificial carbonation. Also works better for tummy woes.
But is it more different than many types of beers and ales that are alcoholic?