Australian supermarket ginger beer taste test: ‘It’s the Sunrise breakfast TV of the soft drink aisle’

‘A drink for kids and booze-free dudes who fear emasculation’: what many supermarket brands of ginger beer are aiming for, according to Nicholas Jordan. Photograph: Isabella Moore/The Guardian

I’m not married but my partner and I hosted something similar to a wedding a few years ago. Instead of beer, fancy wines or batched cocktails, I ordered 30 litres of ginger beer from a Sierra Leonean home cook in Guildford, Sydney.

I thought I loved ginger beer – it was a regular drink order, I’d even order a coffee with a side of ginger beer (I’d ask for an extra-big glass, pour in the shot of espresso, followed by ginger beer).