- Hello, drinks fans, and welcome back
to yet another one of my videos.
And I say 'drinks fans' because today it is about a video
that I've wanted to do for a long time.
I've finally done a ginger beer off!
I've wanted to find what is the best ginger beer
to mix with rum for a long time.
I thought I knew what my favourite was.
It's the ginger beer that I've gone to for quite a few years
but I've got another six here that I just wanted to try out
so that's what's in store for today's video.
I've also got a little twist at the end for you,
so make sure you stay tuned for that.
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Right, let's get into it!
Today's question of the video,
obviously we are ginger beer-related
so I wanna know, quick yes or no in the comments below,
do you like ginger beer?
Do you drink it with your vodka, with your gin,
with your rum, sorry.
If so, what ginger beer do you drink?
I wanna know, hit me up in the comments below.
A simple yes/no, and if you do hit yes,
what ginger beer do you go to?
Right, let's get into it.
As I do with my gins, this was under experiment conditions,
so I lined up six...what have I got here?
Six different ginger beers.
I lined 'em up, I did equal amounts of the rum.
Now, the rum I used...
I put it over there, I should've grabbed it.
The rum I used is Sailor Jerry.
That's kinda of a little...it's a lovely spiced rum.
That's the spiced rum I used with this,
and spiced rum and ginger beer,
that is kinda the go-to drink.
So, that's what I used,
equal amounts of Sailor Jerry have gone in there,
and then equal amounts of the different ginger beers.
Now, six, now here's the results.
I'm gonna start in last place, that's where I'll go.
In out-and-out last place by a million miles,
I'm really sorry girls, but the Double Dutch Ginger Beer.
I did not like that at all with rum.
For me, it just didn't work...there was just,
I don't know what was going on, but I just didn't like it.
It was not even fiery as some of the others down there,
but I dunno, I just did not like it.
So, that was last place.
Just ahead of it, and I just say 'just' ahead of it,
was Fentiman's Ginger Beer.
I got a massive dislike to that,
I don't even like it without rum, let alone on its own.
I just, I did not like that at all for me, just not a drink.
I know lots of pubs and bars stock that as their ginger beer
for their rums and that, seriously, change it up.
Get rid of it, it's not brilliant for mixers.
It's also quite expensive if you're doing
the rum and ginger beer.
So, let's get those two,
discount those two out the equation.
Right, in fourth place,
I actually found that one.
Now, that's not obviously,
not a proper obvious go-to ginger beer,
but that wasn't too bad.
A little bit too fiery for my liking.
I like ginger, but I don't like it over-fiery.
So, for me that's a good fourth place one.
I haven't seen it...you get, on the trade you get them
in a smaller bottle but off-trade supermarkets,
I've only ever seen them in that size.
So, there we go, beaver, Belvoir,
however you want to say that,
I don't know where the whole beaver/Belvoir comes from,
I don't know, so someone needs to explain
when it's beaver and when it's Belvoir,
I dunno but I'm gonna call it Belvoir, Belvoir Ginger Beer.
In third place, Franklin & Sons Ginger Beer.
Now, the only thing for me that put me off
with my rum and ginger beers was the fact that
it has got that little bit of citrus in there,
and I think that malted barley in there,
just kinda gives it that non-rum ginger beer,
that stereotypical taste that you wanna hit.
So, that was a third place for me.
Are we still in shot? There we go.
Now, in second place, this,
it wasn't a tough call but
it almost was a tough call.
In second place, Fever-Tree Ginger Beer.
I was actually surprised by that, I must admit.
I thought Franklin & Sons for me was gonna be better,
because I haven't in the past generally liked
Fever-Tree's ginger beer.
I probably think it's because of the refreshingly light now,
I think they probably changed the taste, the flavour profile,
and I think that works exceptionally well
with definitely some of the spiced rums out there.
That, for me, was second place, however,
I don't know why I even thought there'd be any difference.
For me, there was absolutely no shadow of a doubt.
I say it was a tough call,
it was because that surprised me so much.
I wasn't expecting that to be as nice as it was,
and it was really nice.
However, always, always, always, for me is
Old Jamaica Ginger Beer.
It is just, for me, the best Dark and Stormy,
the best rum and ginger beer,
the best Moscow Mule out there.
A couple of wedges of lime in that,
it's got a little bit of sweetness,
it's got that fiery kind of kick to it.
It just works, and the best but is so cheap.
It's like 35, 40p a can in your supermarkets.
I just don't think you can beat it. I really do not.
I've used that now 5, 6, 8, longer years...
10 years or so I've been using Old Jamaica Ginger Beer,
and I just think it is the go-to.
So that's my kinda Top 4 there.
As I say, if you just...I don't like 'em.
I really don't like 'em.
But, for the twist, now ginger.
There's obviously ginger ales in there,
and there's some pubs and bars only stock ginger ale,
which does confuse me,
especially when you can get cases of that on trade
very, very easily, very cheap.
I don't understand it, and even Fever-Tree.
I don't understand why they don't carry ginger beers.
But, I did wanna taste ginger ale.
So I did have a little ginger ale off as well.
Now, there's three in my mind,
three decent ginger ales out there.
We've got the one that's been around since year dot,
Dry Schweppes, kinda dry
we've got Fever-Tree,
and we've got Schweppes' new 1783.
They're supermarket-owned brands,
I didn't wanna go into that.
I was just doing this purely to
satisfy my own curiosity for pubs and bars.
Now, I did a bonus with this because
I actually drink brandy or cognac and ginger ale as well.
That's actually a really lovely,
refreshing long drink for me.
I openly admit that I didn't have any
Franklin & Sons ginger ale to do this,
it was kinda a last minute thought.
But, here's my thing - does it work with spiced rum?
Yes, not for me as nice as ginger beer,
but still a lovely, lovely drink.
However, whiskey and ginger ale,
cognac and ginger ale, absolutely phenomenal.
Now, which one do you think was the best?
Go on, comments below, hit me below.
What do you think was the best?
Now, I've been touting that for the last month or so,
because I thought that was actually really, really nice,
and it is a really, really nice drink.
However, tasting all three, side by side,
in whiskey, in cognac,
So the cognac was Courvoisier VSOP,
the whiskey was bourbon, Maker's Mark.
And the rum, as I mentioned before, was Sailor Jerry.
All three, hands-down, by the million miles, Fever-Tree.
That was just such a lovely, lovely drink.
And here's the caveat -
Mummy Barman has been a staunch devotee of Canada Dry
since the year dot, that's what she drinks.
Brandy and ginger ale, drinks that.
Gave it to her blind, both times.
Well, she tried the rum and she tried the cognac,
both times picked that out, so there we have it.
For those sort of drinks,
for me it's about Fever-Tree ginger ale
For your rum though, for your Moscow Mules...
all about that.
So, I hope you enjoyed that, let me know what you think.
Let me know if those are your kind of
go-to sort of gingers with your drinks.
Hit me up in the comments below,
simple yes/no, what's your ginger ale,
what's your favourite below.
Do you drink rum/ginger, do you drink vodka and ginger?
What do you drink?
I'm Steve the Barman, next time I have finally,
I've finally got hold of a bottle of Monkey 47 gin.
We're going back to the gin reviews.
I'm gonna tell you which tonic works best,
in my opinion, with Monkey 47.
So, that's in the next video,
which will come out next Wednesday, see you soon!