National ginger ale shortage.

[mrs quoad]

I like my generic sugar free ginger ale. I probably get through a litre every other day.

However, a crisis has been apparent in recent weeks. Shop after shop has been sold out. Coop. Sainsburys. Waitrose. Up north, down south, you name it.

Here is a northern Sainsburys today.



Mostly well stocked. BUT A BIG HOLE FOR GINGER ALE.

What’s going on there, then?

 

[danny la rouge]

I stockpiled it for Brexit.

 

[kabbes]

I like my generic sugar free ginger ale. I probably get through a litre every other day.

I’m sorry. I was unable to concentrate past this paragraph.

 

[cupid_stunt]

It's connected to the general shortage of CO2 this year, manufacturers have focused their limited production on top selling brands & products, leaving the shortfalls to hit the supply of the likes of ginger ale.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

All that sugar-free shit is bad for you, so its been banned. Get back on the full fat lovely stuff.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

It's connected to the general shortage of CO2 this year, manufacturers have focused their limited production on top selling brands & products, leaving the shortfalls to hit the supply of the likes of ginger ale.

Let's be honest, the retailers just have a vendetta against mrs quoad

 

[SpookyFrank]

I often drink sugar free ginger ale when I'm having a break from the booze. It's pretty horrid but it's fizzy and caffeine free and it's more interesting than water.

 

[gentlegreen]

A house full of yeast and he buys ginger beer ?

 

[JimW]

Perhaps you could seek support from a ginger group?

 

[blairsh]

Get yersen some Old Jamaica Ginger Beer

 

[marty21]

I stockpiled it for Brexit.

Did you buy British ginger beer or that foreign muck?

 

[belboid]

Did you buy British ginger beer or that foreign muck?

they're not talking good, decent, ginger beer, they're talking ginger bloody ale! Terrible stuff.

Fentimans all the way

 

[Poi E]

Ginger ale is really just for mixing with spirits, isn't it? I mean, kids don't even drink it.

 

[danny la rouge]

Ginger ale is really just for mixing with spirits, isn't it? I mean, kids don't even drink it.

Except at weddings.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A house full of yeast and he buys ginger beer ?

Maybe mrs quoad can make his own ginger beer using athletes foot toe scrapings. Presumably that would work just as well if he's used all the yeast to make bread.

 

[Pickman's model]

I like my generic sugar free ginger ale. I probably get through a litre every other day.

However, a crisis has been apparent in recent weeks. Shop after shop has been sold out. Coop. Sainsburys. Waitrose. Up north, down south, you name it.

Here is a northern Sainsburys today.

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Mostly well stocked. BUT A BIG HOLE FOR GINGER ALE.

What’s going on there, then?

what's happened is sainsbury's is going soviet. we've noticed it in hackney. and for several days the sandwich selection at the waitrose i use for dinner has been appalling. not that it's that good at the best of times, but it's been abysmal. no salmon and cucumber. a gaping hole where cheddar ploughmans is supposed to be.

 

[maomao]

This may be my fault. My fridge today:

 

[maomao]

Ah. Ginger beer ≠ ginger ale. I was unaware of this. I am a massive ginger beer fan. Am I missing anything?

 

[Pickman's model]

Ah. Ginger beer ≠ ginger ale. I was unaware of this. I am a massive ginger beer fan. Am I missing anything?

no

 

[pogofish]

Ginger Beer is a fine drink on its own but Ginger Ale needs to be mixed with brandy IMO.

Canada Dry used to be the best but it has deteriorated since it was taken over a few years back. These days, Fever Tree is probably the best brandy mixer around, if pricey.

 

[Pickman's model]

Ginger Beer is a fine drink on its own but Ginger Ale needs to be mixed with brandy IMO.

Canada Dry used to be the best but it has deteriorated since it was taken over a few years back. These days, Fever Tree is probably the best brandy mixer around, if pricey.

Any mixer pollutes the perfection that is brandy

 

[pogofish]

Any mixer pollutes the perfection that is brandy

Sometimes you don't want alcohol perfection - just a fine drink!

 

[JimW]

Stones Ginger wine, had a few dodgy drinks with that in

 

[Mattym]

Get yersen some Old Jamaica Ginger Beer

I'm sure the taste of that has changed since the whole sugar tax nonsense. I can only drink Crabbies nowadays.

 

[maomao]

Stones Ginger wine, had a few dodgy drinks with that in

I swear a single bottle of that lasted about 7 or 8 years in the dining room sideboard when I was a child. It was for mixing with my mum's annual new year's dram. I kept stealing the whisky it was mixed with but the ginger wine just smelled too sickly and sweet to be worth its 12% alcohol.

 

[JimW]

I swear a single bottle of that lasted about 7 or 8 years in the dining room sideboard when I was a child. It was for mixing with my mum's annual new year's dram. I kept stealing the whisky it was mixed with but the ginger wine just smelled too sickly and sweet to be worth its 12% alcohol.

Yep, turned up at Christmas then sort of just hung around

 

[pogofish]

Stones Ginger wine, had a few dodgy drinks with that in

Good if you have a cold though.

 

[joustmaster]

I'm no fan of it. I prefer a powerful ginger beer.

But the wife had a mighty taste for it during her pregnancy. We have about ten bottles in the cupboard

It's yours for a tennner a glass.

 

[8ball]

Maybe they're just phasing it out because it's terrible.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Except at weddings.

When all the real fizzy drinks have run out.