~~Oh, THANK YOU for this recipe! Ginger Ale is a GREAT way to cope with colds and flu viruses, to calm an upset tummy....for both adults and children.
In our region, it is not easy to ride out at night to find a store open that carries it, so will be stocking our pantry with plenty of these ingredients.

I've been wanting to try this myself for a while now. I love gingerale.
And that's a great photo, by the way, Elise.

Thanks for posting this recipe. I am also a big fan of "anything homemade that you can possibly do". For such drinks, we tend to take shortcuts, but nothing beats a homemade drink, really. What club soda would you recommend?

Hi Elise.
Funny - I tried making it 2 weeks ago too- I used a recipe in Donna Hay (I think). In that recipe the ginger was cooked together with the sugar syrup and I don't think it worked very well. I bought a load of ginger to try again so next time I will try your recipe instead.

Thanks for keeping the piccy small enough that no one can make out my wrinkles!

PS my recipe said not to peel the ginger .

PPS - we mixed ours with vodka and lemonade instead!

Is it REALLY 1 cup of ginger? Did you mean 1 Tb maybe? I don't know anyone who's got that much ginger waiting to be ground up (nor do I desire to ever have that much). :) Besides that little hangup, I'm going to go home and try this! Thanks!

Hi Carole - You are welcome! We use ginger ale for upset tummies and when we have colds too. I never thought to make it from scratch until going to the Canteen.

Hi Nic - Thanks Nic!

Hi Bea - Honestly I'm not up on the differences between club sodas, I think any will do.

Hi Sam - I wonder if peeling makes a difference? Whenever I would make ginger tea I would peel the ginger first. Perhaps it's like peeling any root vegetable - get rid of some of the lingering dirt that may be on the peel. Hmm. Vodka and lemonade, well that would work!

Hi LoveGingerAle - yes, 1 cup of ginger. It makes a pretty strong ginger ale. You might experiment with the proportions. I was trying to recreate the gingerale I had had at Canteen restaurant, and I think I got close. It is much stronger than gingerale you would get in a packaged soda, but more like a bottle of ginger beer.

I really pounced on this one, Elise! I was trying to create a home-made "soda" type concoction recently, only sugarless, for my family. Nothing was agreeable. This may just do the trick if it can work with Stevia to sweeten instead of sugar (for the diabetics in family). Also, I did not know ginger was good for an upset tummy or cold.

I love your blog. You always surprise me with something cool!

Oh My..... thanks you so much for posting this recipe. I have never had ginger ale this good. I am a new chef and always looking for new ideas and recipes. I am also a mom w/ very picky children, and to say the least this gets 5 stars in my house.

Ginger in anything and I am there. Love the fact that I can make my own ginger ale now and not resort to the Canada Dry, eh!

I just have to say, I love this site.
You come up with some of the most delicious recipes,
thank-you.

What a great recipe. I never thought about making ginger ale at home before. I will be trying this one for sure. Many thanks!

I have to try this recipe. I was at a Korean grill, and my friend asked for some candied ginger. I was extoling the taste of real ginger and how it is so refreshing, there should be a drink with it...Ginger-Ade...then I thought...D'oh! Ginger-Ale! Love it!

I made one this summer after trying a homemade gingerale at a local restaurant. I added a bit of salt and pepper because that's what they did at the restaurant. It was so delicious and refreshing!

Thank you so much! I love ginger ale and would much rather make it homemade so I could play with (and, with my lack of cooking skills, mess up) the recipe!

I also tend to make hot cocoa from bitter cocoa, because I like peppermint in it more than the usual vanilla.

A warning about sugar for diabetics: WATCH OUT FOR ASPARTAME! It turns into fermaldihyde (misspelled) in your intestines and is a confirmed carcinogin. (The polotics of why it was ever accepted as safe to begin with is rather frightening--political pressure!) Calorie-free sweeteners actually induce you to GAIN weight, because your body, tasting sweet, MAKES calories. And it's very bad for your digestive tract.

Anyway, I'll try this recipe when I'm allowed to have soda, again; thank you for it!

-Misti

I used to make candied ginger which is easy to do. It involved, slicing the ginger (I pealed mine), letting it boil in water, changing the water, boiling again - this was repeated until I got the strength down to what I wanted, then putting it in simple syrup and letting that gently simmer for a time - forget the exact end of the recipe. The simple syrup candies the ginger which is then good to eat or chop up for inclusion into cooking dishes. Ginger is good for upset tummies in general, morning sickness, seasickness (a friend takes a bag of candied ginger with her when she goes on a boat). Making ginger ale at home sounds like the thing do when I want some and too lazy to go to the store:)

I am so excited to make this on Xmas day. I am always looking for great non-alcoholic drinks to make and I am a huge ginger ale fan. I make my own ginger tea all the time so I know I will love this... and I'm going for the full cup of ginger! Thanks for the recipe!

Thanks for giving me the idea to make ginger ale; its just something our own Filipino version "salabat". I'm thinking it also but I'm afraid that it add some spices.

Also, I loved your blog. Your wide array of ideas of the recipes make me so happy coz I'm trying it just like what I did last occasion.

Thanks for the ginger recipe. I'm going to try it because I do have access to organic ginger and would love to try it with stevia and other herbs. To add salt and pepper...now thats a try!

Hi!
I have been an amateur of ginger ale since childhood and i'm 59. Yet I just recently found many home recipes for ginger ale.
Even more recently, I was given an 1911 cookbook : The Ideal Cookery Book by M.A. Fairclough
where I have found this recipe. Thought you might be interested
(I copy EXACTLY as is, p. 910 Notice the D in gingerade)

How about that !!

I am trying it today
I already prepared a more contemporary recipe where I obtained a syrup that is suppose to mature in the fridge for a month Then it will be mixed with soda water or mineral water, ratio 1 to 7 to taste.

Hope this is found interesting by someone out there !

CCD museologist
Quebec

PS I read somewhere that ginger ale was used against travel sickness - I understand nausea, during the 19th century and after. I was told that ginger ale was served onboard trains, boats and then commercial planes for THAT reason. Remains to be validated, of course but sounds true.
Let's enjoy this cool drink!

Thanks for the great recipe. I made this last night and it was fabulous...great tasting.

Being a die hard ginger ale fan i was pleased to see your recipe as I can't get a bottle so easily living in Athens-Greece

Can't believe it - I just Googled "homemade ginger ale recipe" and this site came up as the first thing. I just discovered Simply Recipes only recently. Never imagined I'd find this recipe here! I'm going into the kitchen to make it now....

For the ginger water after boiling and simmering I actually just poured it into a french press.

Thanks for the recipe!

Hi,
This recipe is excellent.I tried it out just today. The canned stuff you get in the markets barely has any flavour...this has an amazing taste...I will continue to make it in the future
Thanks!

What a find! I was shocked to look at the ingredients of all the usual commercial ginger ales to find that none of them contain ginger!!! I need a tasty way for my daughter to get ginger when he feels nauseous. Unfortunately she is living her hormone-d filled years as I did...nauseous often! Thanks!!

You only need one TEASPOON of ginger!