"It turns out, though, ginger ale works as well with real rye as with fake, and once people acquired the taste they stuck with it, even after Prohibition was repealed. Fact is, it's a damn tasty drink. Babe Ruth used to drink a quart of it with his breakfast (how else to wash down a 16-ounce porterhouse, six fried eggs, and a half-acre of homefries?). Good enough for us. " Boy, the stuff you can find online....what led me to this quote was something else I had read calling Canadian whisky "fake rye".....by Canadian law, if it says "Canadian" on the label, it has to be 51% barrel aged rye, and the rest can be "grain alcohol"......anyway, I don't think I could hang with the Babe at the breakfast table.....
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/drinks/rye-and-ginger-ale-drink-recipe#ixzz1506TNlWJ
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