Originally Posted by
tentseller
The bite of ginger is different from the bite of the peppers. I should re-comment on the bite for I can tell the difference between them. I am an Oriental foodie so my palate is different.
A good ginger ale will help alleviate the nauseous feeling from motion sickness whether you are on planes or ships.
There are dried ginger with a real bite that really works that I get at Chinese medicine shops. It is translated as "old raw ginger". No need to bite or chew, just a piece in your mouth like a cough candy.
I hear you about the bite of "old raw ginger", but if you google search ginger beer and cayenne, you find a raft of recipies that all include cayenne with is the more common addition to cheaper ginger beers or ales. Most likely this cayenne short cut was an attempt to replicate the real thing using less authentic ingredients.
I hope you can find some Bundaburg Ginger Beer because this search for a really good packaged ginger beer has way more losers than winners and happy to have found it as well as the hard to find Schwepes Ginger Beer. Vernor's doesn't do it for me, but I understand that is about the closest more natural concoction.
It was fairly easy to find bottled good stuff across the Indian Ocean under various brand names, but here in the US there is a lot of really bad stuff out there, mislabeled as far as I am concerned. BevMo! carries the worst but at least over-prices their stock Bundaberg, Trader Joe worthless, and the winner for price and availability is Cost Plus World Market.