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Ginger Beer was first crafted back in 1801.  Ginger beer is
found[by whom?] in two versions: brewed ginger beer (which
includes home-brewed) or a carbonated drink flavored primarily
with ginger and sweetened with sugar or artificial sweeteners.
As early as 500 BC, ginger was used as a medicine to cure
sickness, and flavouring food in Ancient China and India.
Western civilization used ginger to spice up the drinks. During
Victorian era, ginger was used to brew beer. [1]  Brewed ginger
beer originated in Yorkshire in England in the mid-18th
century[2] and became popular throughout Britain, the United
States, and Canada, reaching a peak of popularity in the early
20th century.[3]  Brewed ginger beer was brought to the Ionian
Islands by the British Army in the 19th century, and is still
made as a local specialty known as tsitsibíra (τσιτσιμπίρα) by
villagers in rural Corfu.[4] Today, ginger b