Golden Ginger Ale
Craft ginger ale with honey and fresh orange — real ginger content rather than extract, the premium mixer approach that Fever-Tree normalized after its 2005 launch.
- 4 ozginger ale
- 2 ozfresh orange juice
- ½ ozhoney(Diluted with equal parts warm water)
- Orange wedgegarnish
- 1Create honey syrup by mixing honey with equal parts warm water.
- 2Fill a highball glass with ice.
- 3Add honey syrup and orange juice.
- 4Top with ginger ale.
- 5Stir gently and garnish with an orange wedge.
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Golden Ginger Ale distinguishes itself from standard ginger ale through the quality and intensity of its ginger component. Commercial ginger ale — popularized by John McLaughlin of Canada Dry in 1904 — uses minimal ginger extract, producing a mild, pleasant sweetness with little actual ginger character. Craft ginger ale, sometimes called golden or premium ginger ale, uses significantly more fresh or dried ginger, resulting in a spicier, more complex beverage with genuine heat and aromatic depth. The golden color typically comes from the natural amber tint of ginger juice or lightly caramelized sugar. Fever-Tree, launched in the UK in 2005, helped legitimize premium mixers as a commercial category by emphasizing fresh ginger from Ivory Coast in their ginger ale, and their success inspired a generation of craft ginger ale and ginger beer producers.
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