Why does Stone's Ginger Beer taste different?

Stone's, I'm sure you will agree, used to be an amazing ginger beer and a winner for the market but some of you may have noticed that a few years back the flavour changed and it wasn't as good any more. Well ages ago I sent an email to the company asking what the go was, thinking that I might have got a dodgy batch. But what they told me was way more disappointing... Due to the Australian Federal Government introducing the "alcopop tax" (taxes on premix alcoholic drinks) the cost of producing Stone's ginger beer had a fairly big increase due to this and would have filtered down to the consumer. So to avoid the drink from being labelled an alcopop, which is partly based on the amount of sugars in the drink, they changed the recipe to avoid the tax in hopes of keeping costs down and the customers happy. Unfortunately they have failed and produced a really crap ginger beer :( Since, I have never bought Stone's Ginger Beer again although I do occasionally get the Stone's Ginger Wine on a cold night.

Not to worry, I have been sampling heaps of ginger beers for years trying to find a suitable substitute and have finally found the perfect ginger beer...check it out :)

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