The US FDA identified a foreign substance in a can of Diet Pepsi as either "frog or toad."
Nasty! But there is a saving grace!
I HAVE MADE MY OWN GINGER ALE THAT I LOOOOOOOVE.
I've made ginger beer (ale? fizzy gingery drink?) before. But it had sorely failed my love of fizz. As Lori coined "it's all about the burn." I love the tssssssss when you first twist off the cap. The little spray of nose wrinkling droplets. That first sip that slips down your throat and packs it with a whallop that has you sit up and smile.
I confess I buy soda pop. Soda for you ahmricans. Pop fer u Canucks. If it's fizzy I'll likely love it. Cept for those nasty ass cans of energy drinks that taste like life savers meets the koolaid man in a fizz inducing state. Blechhhh. I'll even love fizz that falls below fizz whalloping standards. I have drunk juice (particularly grape juice) that's been left on the counter a little too long in this hot Hawaiian weather. It's a little fizzy and hasn't started smelling like someone left the lid off the compost bucket again. It's ok but not worth reproducing.
But the tsssss, the spray, the whallop.... that is what I aim for and I HAVE ACHIEVED IT! All it took was ginger, sugar, yeast (honey too but it wasn't necessary). Mix in a screw cap bottle - I used an old glass fizzy water bottle. Leave it in a cool dark place for 4-6 days - I only could be patient for 4 1/2 days. Refrigerate (even if you ain't gonna drink it cuz otherwise you will be cleaning your cool dark place of sticky mess and glass shards). Drink when ice cold. Sit back and smile. Measurements will be forthcoming as I do this over and over and over again!!!!!
Next fizzing experiment will be a non-yeast fermentation based on lactobacillus from the skin of roots. Yep, root beer (which ginger is since it is technically a root). Mebbe I'll even get around to taking a picture. Metta has requested an orange juice soda....
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