Cocktails/Brews Ginger Ale

ginger ale

(from Godey's Ladies Magazine, edited by L.A. Godey, Sarah J. Hale, 1863)

Ingredients:

10 gallons water​

12 lbs. sugar​

6 oz. bruised ginger (unbleached is best)​

1 oz. hops​

3 or 4 spoonfuls yeast​

1 oz. isinglass​

Instructions:

To ten gallons of water, put twelve pounds of sugar, six ounces of bruised ginger (unbleached is the best). Boil it one hour, put it into a barrel with one ounce of hops and three or four spoonfuls of yeast. Let it stand three days; then close the barrel, putting in one ounce of isinglass. In a week it is fit for use. Draw out in a jug, and use as beer.​

I assume that a recipe like this "does" contain alcohol.

 

[rbasin]

It can. Looks like ginger beer actually.