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I love ginger beer--there's something about that sweetness and fizz with the spicy little kick at the end. It's kind of like grown-up ginger ale, and I bet it's just as good for stomach aches. Or possibly not. I do know what it is good for, and that is for giving pleasant-weather drinks a refreshing kick in the pants and a little bit of a zing.  

My smart friend Jen Wade is good at all kinds of science, including the science of drink making, and thusly concocts a very beautiful Moscow Mule that I miss, especially as the weather gets nicer and brighter. The Moscow Mule is the classic ginger beer drink, but my other smart friend Boozemonkey has created a brand-new recipe for a ginger-beer drink, called The Denomination. It's got lime juice, pineapple juice, a bit of pisco (a brandy) and lovely, bubbly ginger beer, and it sounds absolutely inspired. I think it ought to be sipped outside, while you are wearing a sundress and feeling both summery and sophisticated even though you smell like sunblock.  And even if you have not got an outside or a sundress right this instant, you'll feel summery anyway. That's a perfect drink.