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Ginger Ale
Ginger ale is a lightly carbonated soft drink flavoured with ginger, milder and sweeter than ginger beer. It adds gentle spice and fizz without overwhelming a cocktail's other flavours. It is a softer alternative when ginger beer's heat would be too much.
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Common uses
- tops off built cocktails for gentle spice
- pairs with whisky
Buying & storage
Months once opened: Keeps for months once opened, but it does change. Nothing urgent; worth finishing within a season.
Storage: best used soon after opening, as carbonation fades quickly
Recipes
Cocktails containing this ingredient
Stand-in
Where ginger ale is a recommended substitute
Recipes that name it as a swap for something else, with what it replaces.
- Virgin Mojitoin place of soda water
- Moscow Mulein place of ginger beer
- Dark 'n' Stormyin place of ginger beer
- Alcohol-Free Mulein place of ginger beer
- Ginger Lime Fizzin place of ginger beer
- Mexican Mulein place of ginger beer
- Whisky Highballin place of soda water
- Pimm's Cupin place of lemonade
- Shandyin place of cloudy lemonade
- Sparkling Cranberry Mocktailin place of soda water
- Roy Rogersin place of cola
- Cinderellain place of soda water, to top
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