Cape Cod Ginger-- Ginger Original Beer/Ale, Served Cold or Hot...

 

Real Ginger "Ale", or "Beer", Organic, fresh, non ethanol-- all around great new beverage in 5 actual fruit flavors-- you can see an interview with the Massachusetts owner and developer who built the bottle line himself, like a volcano surfing one man show:

See Video:

https://vimeo.com/435160535

In contrast to, say Reed's Ginger Beer, which will blow your face off with the heat of the ginger, this is akin to the Canadian version, mellowed down for polite company-- a kind of new improved "Canada Dry" or old Schweep's was it, which are super sweet, mild.. soda-ish-- and tame by contrast to both Reed's, Jamaica's Award winning Dg Brand Ginger Soda, and this new Cape Cod Ginger, making it a welcome addition to what's on the shelves in the US.

Of course, there's always the Homebrewing for you DYIers-- naturally fermented-- high in natural probiotic version you can try out for yourself, which is as easy as this:

Get fresh Ginger-- peel half of the skin off, but leave some skin.  

Blend it in your Nutrabullet or whatever.  

Save some peel which has the good yeast that will feed on the sugar you'll add to ferment the beverage, man--- Now add to make a mixture of organic cane sugar in a container (Mason jar) with an open lid-- with paper towel or coffee filter over top (to stop insects) and leave it overnight, maybe a few days-- that's called a "Ginger Bug" which will begin the fermenting the Ginger and Sugar mixture.  When you see bubbles, transfer it to a Mason Jar with a lid and seal it. 

It will naturally carbonate.  You'll gave natural "soda" with probiotics, started from the good bacteria from the ginger peel.   

If you add enough sugar or Dextrose (corn sugar), you could generate a beverage with ethanol-- making an actual Ginger Beer beer that could go way beyond feeding your gut microbe with probiotics to getting you bombed on the ethanol... but let's not get crazy for now, okay?

It's kind of ironic to be sampling this great new, if mild take on "Ginger Beer", as I finish a book on the "golden age" of Piracy, 200 years ago, featuring the strong connection between early shipping companies and individuals in Massachusetts who ventured down to the Caribbean's Pirate Republics, defectors who started out as "Privateers" with permission from the British crown to steal and plunder Spanish ships only to be outlawed and left to fend for themselves with a particular set of skills, taking ships and cargo, such as Ginger from where it was grown... by slaves. 

I can envision a Pirate like Captain Morgan, or say, Jonny Depp fresh out of rehab-- clean and sober on the label in a new slick bottle, or can-- like RedBull-- with a tie in to another Pirate movie.  Hell, I may write the owner to put Taurine in it and make a Ginger Energy Drink and White Label it with my own pirate. Hell, I might dress up as the pirate to be on the label!  Wouldn't that be cool?