Comments on: Home Made Ginger Ale and Problematic Sublimation

By: hmong

hmong — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:18:41 +0000

pretty neat post, keep up the good work! love the recipes.

By: Irene

Irene — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:14:57 +0000

Hi Susanna, funny you should talk about his because my husband’s former college roommate, Chris Reed, happens to make an excellent ginger ale, called Ginger Brew, yes, brewed the old fashioned way the way your and my grandmothers did before ginger ale was even available in a supermarket. His is the only one that uses fresh ginger (yes, fresh!) and honey as a sweetener, no fructose. It is potent, but comes in different strengths so you can work your way up to Premium if you like. You can buy it at Whole Foods, Costco on the West Coast and many other natural and other food stores. (Maybe even the supermarket out there, I’m not sure.) He also happens to own the Virgil’s brand of root beer also, and also excellent. Chris trained as a chemical engineer at RPI, and arrived at the current recipe with much trail and error, and attention to the process at every stage. Let me know what you think!

By: Elise

Elise — Sun, 31 May 2009 06:06:02 +0000

I do like the easy way of making ginger ale, though I remember getting either a comment or an email about my recipe in which the reader expressed the idea that ginger ale should be fermented, as it is an “ale”. That seems like an awful lot of work to me to just make a simple drink that actually tastes pretty darn good the unfermented way. No idea about the “sublimation”, but perhaps the results will be sublime?

By: Marcelo

Marcelo — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:14:41 +0000

Hannah’s recipe for the ginger ale involved infusing simple syrup (water and sugar) with fresh crushed ginger and then combining that with club soda. No tricky sublimation technique or anything. We’re looking for the recipe right now(it’s on Hannah’s defunct vegan blog whose URL we don’t remember). People really liked it when we made it for parties back in the day.

By: Barbara Payson

Barbara Payson — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:08:51 +0000

Guess my reply was too long and was cancelled. I went off the track. Hope you are able to stay in the mountains near Aspen for the summer!

Re Ginger ale. I like the idea of sublimating it! If you drink that high fructose corn syrup, my daughter Jennifer says you are ingesting poison from the gasoline-based fertilizer used for corn over production.

By: Barbara Payson

Barbara Payson — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:01:41 +0000

Your home made ginger ale sounds good to me. I like the idea of breathing it. Hannah’s mom told me the dangers of drinking corn syrup……it seems to have gasoline in it because of a new chemical used to fertilize corn. I guess this syrup was an invention to use up the corn over production resulting from this poisonous fertilizer.

When do you return to S. California? I will be there June 4 to 15 and will have a picnic-cook out with your dad near Neptunes’ Net on June 7. I return to Maine with Hannah on June 15 to take her on a special trip to NYC and DC with her cousin Morgan who will also be celebrating her 10th birthday! Ciao! Happy summer! Sounds good to enjoy it in the mountains near Aspen.bup