ginger beer

noun

: a sweetened carbonated nonalcoholic beverage heavily flavored with ginger or capsicum or both

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Drink specials to expect include a $16 Chip Shot, which mixes bourbon, bitters and brown sugar and the $16 Bogey Man, which blends bourbon, strawberry, lime juice, bitters and ginger beer. Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2025 The dinner-exclusive peach cocktail is the Peach Tea Mule, a seasonal cocktail combining sweet tea, bourbon, peach, ginger beer, and lime for another spin on a classic sweet and spicy favorite. Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 May 2025 And don’t neglect Bermuda’s other national drink, the dark ‘n’ stormy; something about this concoction of dark rum, ginger beer, and lime hits different when the weather is, indeed, dark and stormy. Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 27 Apr. 2025 This bright, refreshing modern-classic highball combines Rieger Kansas City Whiskey with ginger beer and a few dashes of Angostura bitters. Aly Walansky, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for ginger beer

Word History

First Known Use

1809, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of ginger beer was in 1809

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“Ginger beer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ginger%20beer. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.

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