# Salty Ginger-Ade

Date, lime, cumin, salt, mint, and spicy ginger beer make Kaitlyn Goalen’s serious zero-proof cooler earthy, tart, textured, and deeply refreshing.

Strength: 0% ABV before dilution

## Ingredients

- 30 ml [Fresh lime juice](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/fresh-lime-juice.md)
- 1 whole [Medjool date](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/medjool-date.md) — Use one soft, pitted date.
- 1 pinch [Salt](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/salt.md)
- 1 pinch [Cumin](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/cumin.md) — Use freshly ground cumin seed.
- 180 ml [Ginger beer](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/ginger-beer.md) — Use non-alcoholic, cold, freshly opened ginger beer.

## Glassware

Highball glass

## Garnish

- Mint sprig — Use one fresh, aromatic sprig.

## Method

1. Combine the lime juice, date, salt, and cumin in a shaker and rest for five minutes.
2. Muddle until the date is pulverised, add cubed ice, and shake hard.
3. Pour unstrained into a chilled highball, add the ginger beer, and stir gently.

## Related drinks

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- [Mamie Taylor](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/mamie-taylor.md): Scotch, lime, and forceful ginger make a brisk nineteenth-century highball with smoke, spice, and no unnecessary sweetness.
- [Horsefeather](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/horsefeather.md): A Kansas City whiskey highball pushes ginger beer hard against aromatic bitters and a squeezed lemon wedge for a peppery, regional cousin of the buck.
- [Fernet Cup No. 1](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/fernet-cup-no-1.md): A bracing Fernet highball brightened with lime, sugar, and spicy ginger beer.
- [Gunner](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/gunner.md): Equal ginger beer and ginger ale make a sharp Hong Kong clubhouse cooler seasoned with Angostura and lemon.
- [Añejo Highball](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/anejo-highball.md): Dale DeGroff’s rum highball layers oak, orange, lime, ginger, and bitters into a bright long drink with considerably more structure than a simple buck.
- [Queen Elizabeth](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/queen-elizabeth.md): Dry vermouth leads this brisk, lower-proof 1930s sour, with Bénédictine supplying honeyed herbs against a full measure of lime.
- [La Guildive](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/la-guildive.md): Martin Cate’s up rum mule folds peach, vanilla-rich Licor 43, fresh lime, and cinnamon through a small, lively charge of ginger beer.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/salty-ginger-ade
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/cocktails/salty-ginger-ade-d649f7de.webp
- Recipe source: https://www.liquor.com/recipes/salty-ginger-ade/