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ginger beer

noun

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

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Mix all the ingredients together the night before; just save the ginger beer and apple and rosemary garnishes to add right before serving. Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 21 Nov. 2025 The beverage menu includes a gingerbread old-fashioned and a tequila cocktail with ginger beer, cranberries and lime juice. Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2025 Created by bartender Erick Castro at Rickhouse in San Francisco, the Kentucky Buck is a bourbon, ginger and strawberry cocktail that’s great with a ginger beer, but even better with fresh ginger syrup and sparkling water. Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2025 If ginger beer sings with a dark rum, sing. Gina Pace, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ginger beer

Word History

First Known Use

1809, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
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 3 Dec. 2025.

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