Cocktail Ideas For Alcoholic Ginger Beer
Even when drunk on its own with no mixer alcoholic ginger beer is a great drink. It is especially refreshing when served very cold, poured over ice. It also makes a fantastic ice cream float when you add a scoop of vanilla or chocolate ice cream to a half full glass of alcoholic ginger beer.
Ginger beer’s deep, smoky and warm flavour goes especially well with rum. You can make a good cocktail with either white or dark rum, but the nicest combination is definitely with dark rum. The easiest rum cocktail and alcoholic ginger beer cocktail is A Furlong Too Late. You make it by simply mixing 4 flozs of ginger beer with 2 flozs of white rum. For a easy dark rum cocktail try a Dark and Stormy which you make by mixing 2 flozs of dark rum into an glass full of alcoholic ginger beer and ice. Finish the cocktail by running a lime around the rim, and adding another wedge to the cocktail.
Alcoholic ginger beer mixes well with other beers or larger, but is best mixed with ginger ale or pear cider. The ratio of beer or larger to ginger beer is up to you, but the best mix is usually 50/50. To make a simple beer punch mix a bottle of alcoholic ginger beer with a bottle of lager, 2 floz of gin, a splash of soda water and 0.5 floz of lemon juice. If you have it available, add slice of fresh ginger and some lemon or lime wedges to the punch.
Non-alcoholic ginger beer is often mixed with whiskey, bourbon, tequila or vodka. The alcoholic version of ginger beer works just as well as a mixer with those spirits. Some people also like it mixed with gin, especially lightly flavoured gins like Gordon’s. If you do mix it with gin, serve it in a sugared glass.
You can use alcoholic ginger beer to make a lovely syrup to be poured over soft fruits. The best kinds of fruits are strawberries, raspberries, blackcurrants, redcurrants and blackberries, combined with grated dark chocolate.
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