Get to Know Our Ginger Ale

Ginger is a tropical perennial plant that is harvested commonly for its roots. Carrying many medicinal properties, the yellowish glow of a freshly cut ginger root has been widely used by many communities for thousands of years. Ginger Beer, a beverage most of us know and love, was the inspiration for our Ginger Ale botanical drink mix. Our recipe was thoughtfully crafted by organicfair’s co-owner Marisa, in 2012 as one of our original offerings. Both a chef and herbalist, Marisa has taken a classic flavour combination and added our own organicfair touch, to offer a product that does more than just taste good!

Our Ginger Ale is a full spectrum extract which means we use freshly cut and dried ginger as well as ginger essential oil in our recipe. All of these forms of ginger have different medicinal benefits creating an amazingly complex ginger flavour with a balanced amount of heat. Marisa has always loved Jamaican style ginger beer and wanted our Ginger Ale to include a hint of lime and aromatic spices. She created our original recipe when she was pregnant to also help soothe the uncomfortableness of nausea. Ginger is a well recognized herb to treat this and she can attest, the effectiveness of our botanical drink mix works wonders in eliminating the symptoms.

In our family kitchen, our Ginger Ale is a staple. We have designed it to be used as more than just for beverages and below are a few quick and easy recipes we’d love to share with you!

How do you use our Ginger Ale botanical drink mix in your kitchen? Let us know in the comments below, we’d love to give it a try!

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North American Style Teriyaki Sauce

• ⅓ cup of Tamari
• 3 tables of organicfair’s Ginger Ale botanical drink mix
• 2 tsps finely chopped garlic
•  ⅛ -¼ tsp of toasted sesame oil

Combine all the ingredients in a small saucepan and simmer on medium to low heat for 5-7ish minutes. You can either strain out the garlic or leave it in. Refrigerate any extra.

Moscow Mule 

• 1 tablespoon organicfair ‘s Ginger Ale botanical drink mix
• 4oz of soda water
• 1 ½ oz of Vodka
• ½ oz of Lime juice
• Lime slice and or sprig of mint 

Combine the Ginger Ale, Vodka and lime juice in the bottom of a preferably copper mug Stir together then add soda water and gently stir add ice and lime wedge or sprig of mint.

Bittered Apple Ginger Soda- Non alcoholic

• 2 ozs of Apple cider style apple juice like Santa Cruz
• 1 tables of organicfair’s Ginger Ale botanical drink mix
• 4 dashes of angostura bitters or other aromatic bitters
• Ice and soda to your liking 
• Rosemary sprig and lime slice

Stir together the Ginger Ale and Apple juice. Add ice and soda water stir gently  then add bitters and garnish

Hot Gingered Tea 

• 1 tables of organicfair’s Ginger Ale botanical drink mix
• 1 black tea bag
• 6-8 ozs of boiling water
• 1 oz of bourbon or not 
• 1 cinnamon stick and slice of orange 

Add boiling water to mug with tea bag and steep to your liking then remove tea bag. After, add Ginger Ale and bourbon (or not) stir together, then add garnishes.