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I'm not English, but I've read Enid Blyton's " Famous Five" just to get some practise in the language (remember adult's books are much too difficult reads for foreigners). That's why I wondered a lot that Blyton would have some adolescents younger than 15 have drink BEER in the books? So this tells us even in the middle of the 20th century the alcoholic ginger beer was already about to disappear. -andy 85.179.123.0 ( talk) 04:37, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
Pol098, were it not for these refs, I'd contest that GBP was commercially available at all and add a citation needed tag. I don't care about the ref, but the statement that true GBP is commercially available needs proof. - kslays ( talk • contribs) 04:16, 12 February 2010 (UTC) [1] [2]
The image accompanying this article is of Fentiman's Botanically Brewed Ginger Beer (very nice Ginger beer BTW).
This is (as far as I can tell) neither a carbonated soft drink, nor an alcoholic brewed beverage. Fentiman's contains less than the 0.5% alcohol required to call something non-alcoholic, compared to the 3-15% alcohol one obtains with yeast (or the yeast contained in GBP)
Just sayin'
82.69.192.195 ( talk) 14:13, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
This article is hilarious! I like all of the mysticism about "true ginger beer plant" vs. "just yeast". Clearly you guys don't read old recipe books, or you'd know that it was always started from brewers' yeast. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.43.128.217 ( talk) 00:39, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
"Ginger beer and ginger ale as soft drinks have been wildly popular in many parts of the world particularly Norway, Bulgaria, and Medina, Ohio since they were introduced."
This sentence is a bit peculiar. Firstly that the drinks are 'wildly' popular; I assume the author meant 'widely' but if not there needs to be a citation showing that they do indeed go wild for ginger beer in Norway, Bulgaria and Medina, Ohio. Also, two entire countries then a small city in the US? Medina's page doesn't mention ginger beer at all so why is it so popular there and not the rest of the country? -- Lynch2007 ( talk) 23:14, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Reference [11] is no longer valid as is and needs repair (if possible): returns "Page not found" "Error 404". I do not know how to do this. Victorsteelballs ( talk) 14:23, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
What's the difference between them? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.207.39.63 ( talk) 01:10, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
Quote from the article: "The original recipe requires only ginger, sugar, water, lemon juice and a fungal-bacteria symbiote known as a ginger beer plant."
If there really is something like THE original ginger beer recipe chances are, that this original recipe was not made using a ginger beer plant. The original article by Harry Marshall Ward ( http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/183/125.full.pdf) suggests the possibility that the ginger beer plant was not known in Great Britain before the middle of the 19th century. Also if you look at recipes from old books from the 19th century (found via Google Books) several recipes using yeast pop up but no recipes using ginger beer plant.
btw: The links behind reference [2] and [10] are broken. The German culture bank does not sell the Ginger Beer Plant anymore.
Guennik ( talk) 08:36, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
EDIT: Searched http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ for the term "Ginger Beer Plant". Several references came up ranging from 1854 - 1936.
-- Guennik ( talk) 10:35, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
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In the past, I placed a link to a ginger beer plant group on Yahoo for discussing everything ginger plant. This was placed in "External Links". This was promptly removed with a warning that it violated Wikipedia's policies regarding external links.
Today, I posted within the body of the article that there is such a group: this was removed within a few minutes with the advisement that it required appropriate reference/documentation. I have no affiliation with this group and only mention it for those who would desire learning more about this from those who have first hand experience.
This time, I will try making reference to the group and place the link with it. If this is not the correct way to do this, or the wrong place, please forgive me and just correct it. I'm not putting any more time into this. Victorsteelballs ( talk) 05:21, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
The article currently contains the following:
Supposedly, brewed ginger beer originated in the mid-20th century, but the cited source is dated 1702. So obviously, something is wrong here. I can think of a two possibilities:
Could someone with access to the book fact-check this? -- Gordon Ecker, WikiSloth ( talk) 20:37, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
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Crabbies ginger beer with 4% ABV is very popular in the UK however this article implies alcoholic ginger beer barely exists anymore 2A00:23C7:2B8C:3201:D929:2580:D0C7:DD8B ( talk) 15:30, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
"world wide, alcoholic ginger beer is much less common than non-alcoholic"
Is that really true? From what I've seen (mostly in Finland), ginger beers are usually alcoholic, and ginger ales usually non-alcoholic. Though I've seen both non-alcoholic and alcoholic...
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I'm not English, but I've read Enid Blyton's " Famous Five" just to get some practise in the language (remember adult's books are much too difficult reads for foreigners). That's why I wondered a lot that Blyton would have some adolescents younger than 15 have drink BEER in the books? So this tells us even in the middle of the 20th century the alcoholic ginger beer was already about to disappear. -andy 85.179.123.0 ( talk) 04:37, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
Pol098, were it not for these refs, I'd contest that GBP was commercially available at all and add a citation needed tag. I don't care about the ref, but the statement that true GBP is commercially available needs proof. - kslays ( talk • contribs) 04:16, 12 February 2010 (UTC) [1] [2]
The image accompanying this article is of Fentiman's Botanically Brewed Ginger Beer (very nice Ginger beer BTW).
This is (as far as I can tell) neither a carbonated soft drink, nor an alcoholic brewed beverage. Fentiman's contains less than the 0.5% alcohol required to call something non-alcoholic, compared to the 3-15% alcohol one obtains with yeast (or the yeast contained in GBP)
Just sayin'
82.69.192.195 ( talk) 14:13, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
This article is hilarious! I like all of the mysticism about "true ginger beer plant" vs. "just yeast". Clearly you guys don't read old recipe books, or you'd know that it was always started from brewers' yeast. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.43.128.217 ( talk) 00:39, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
"Ginger beer and ginger ale as soft drinks have been wildly popular in many parts of the world particularly Norway, Bulgaria, and Medina, Ohio since they were introduced."
This sentence is a bit peculiar. Firstly that the drinks are 'wildly' popular; I assume the author meant 'widely' but if not there needs to be a citation showing that they do indeed go wild for ginger beer in Norway, Bulgaria and Medina, Ohio. Also, two entire countries then a small city in the US? Medina's page doesn't mention ginger beer at all so why is it so popular there and not the rest of the country? -- Lynch2007 ( talk) 23:14, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Reference [11] is no longer valid as is and needs repair (if possible): returns "Page not found" "Error 404". I do not know how to do this. Victorsteelballs ( talk) 14:23, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
What's the difference between them? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.207.39.63 ( talk) 01:10, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
Quote from the article: "The original recipe requires only ginger, sugar, water, lemon juice and a fungal-bacteria symbiote known as a ginger beer plant."
If there really is something like THE original ginger beer recipe chances are, that this original recipe was not made using a ginger beer plant. The original article by Harry Marshall Ward ( http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/183/125.full.pdf) suggests the possibility that the ginger beer plant was not known in Great Britain before the middle of the 19th century. Also if you look at recipes from old books from the 19th century (found via Google Books) several recipes using yeast pop up but no recipes using ginger beer plant.
btw: The links behind reference [2] and [10] are broken. The German culture bank does not sell the Ginger Beer Plant anymore.
Guennik ( talk) 08:36, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
EDIT: Searched http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ for the term "Ginger Beer Plant". Several references came up ranging from 1854 - 1936.
-- Guennik ( talk) 10:35, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
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In the past, I placed a link to a ginger beer plant group on Yahoo for discussing everything ginger plant. This was placed in "External Links". This was promptly removed with a warning that it violated Wikipedia's policies regarding external links.
Today, I posted within the body of the article that there is such a group: this was removed within a few minutes with the advisement that it required appropriate reference/documentation. I have no affiliation with this group and only mention it for those who would desire learning more about this from those who have first hand experience.
This time, I will try making reference to the group and place the link with it. If this is not the correct way to do this, or the wrong place, please forgive me and just correct it. I'm not putting any more time into this. Victorsteelballs ( talk) 05:21, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
The article currently contains the following:
Supposedly, brewed ginger beer originated in the mid-20th century, but the cited source is dated 1702. So obviously, something is wrong here. I can think of a two possibilities:
Could someone with access to the book fact-check this? -- Gordon Ecker, WikiSloth ( talk) 20:37, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
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Crabbies ginger beer with 4% ABV is very popular in the UK however this article implies alcoholic ginger beer barely exists anymore 2A00:23C7:2B8C:3201:D929:2580:D0C7:DD8B ( talk) 15:30, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
"world wide, alcoholic ginger beer is much less common than non-alcoholic"
Is that really true? From what I've seen (mostly in Finland), ginger beers are usually alcoholic, and ginger ales usually non-alcoholic. Though I've seen both non-alcoholic and alcoholic...
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