Ginger Beer

I found a poem on Ginger Beer by Guyanese poet Dmitri Allicock. It inspired me to write a poem on the beer:

My background leads me to associate ginger beer with Christmas

In our household there was very strong ginger beer made from scratch at Christmastime

To enjoy with other food as a snack

The ginger beer was not alcoholic

But burned the mouth like pepper sauce.

I learned never to eat ginger beer with Guyanese black cake

For that combination leads to a lot of bathroom trips.

Now ginger beer is available as a carbonated beverage in stores

And the advertisements for the bottled ginger beer show the drink with black cake

The restriction to never eat with black cake no longer applies.

The commercial ginger beer is much weaker than homemade.