ginger beer

noun

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

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This will be spicier than any bottled ginger beer and will be bright and alive—feel free to spike your ginger beer with a quarter ounce of it, or to make the cocktail bar version, below. Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 12 July 2025 The original cocktail is built around rum, lime and ginger—usually in the form of ginger beer. Mark Littler, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025 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. San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 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 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 20 Jul. 2025.

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