Ginger beer is brewed and fermented with ginger, while ginger ale is merely carbonated water flavoured with ginger.
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‘Groaning ale’. In early modern Europe and colonial America, a ‘groaning ale’ would be brewed when a woman became pregnant. The ale would mature throughout the pregnancy, imbibed by the mother and midwife as labour began, and then the remnants of the sterile, 8% liquid washed over the newborn.