Politically correct ginger beer: what’s wrong with this picture?
Well Jeremy Clarkson is in trouble again. This time for describing a car as being “very ginger beer”. It didn’t matter that an audience member of Top Gear said it was a bit gay. Just that he used the rhyming slang.
Well there is plemty of political correctness on this blog and this ginger beer here is straight up and down with one major twist – alcohol. In fact, it is very beer ginger.
At the age of 14 I spent months perfecting this kind of stuff and selling it at school. My brew looked more like the Bluetongue in the middle rather than the traditional style to the right. They never figured that it had 5 per cent alcohol in it or looked at the colour. All three of these are available from Swords at South Melbourne Market but no doubt their other branches stock it.
1 Ginja 3% ABV
Not too fizzy with a nice bitter, malty beer flavour. Tastes more like the ginger beer handies I made mixing bitter and the non-alcoholic stuff. The best of the bunch. WINNER
2 Blue Tongue 4% ABV
Very hoppy and very subtle. Sharper and more sour than the others. Good.
3 Stones Ginger Beer 4.8% ABV
The strongest of the lot in terms of alcohol but also the sweetest. In terms of colour it looks more like the fizzy pop style of ginger beer made for kids. Too sweet for me.
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Blue tongue was a winner in this household last summer. It had to be drunk extremely cold. The damn fine waiters at Cookie got us onto before dinner one night in Spring and we were smitten, buying it by the case to drink at home thereafter.
I shiver just thinking about it on a day like today!