Brewer's Best Brewing Herbs and Spices - 1 oz - Ginger Root
- Typically used as a flavoring for recipes such as gingerbread, cookies, crackers and cake, ginger ale and ginger beer
- Probably the most widely used herb for holiday beer
- 1 oz. package
Zingiber officinale The pungent taste of ginger is due to nonvolatile phenylpropanoid-derived components, particularly gingerols and shogaols, which form from gingerols when ginger is dried or cooked. Mature ginger roots are fibrous and nearly dry. Powdered dry ginger root is typically used as a flavoring for recipes such as gingerbread, cookies, crackers and cake, ginger ale and ginger beer.