A carbonated soft drink flavored with ginger, sweeter and milder than ginger beer. It is used as a mixer in whiskey and vodka highballs and as a gentler alternative to ginger beer.

An early 20th-century highball whose name comes from the long spiral of lemon peel draped over the glass rim — bourbon, ginger ale, and bitters combining into a gently spiced, supremely easy sipper.

Bourbon Horse's Neck

A classic American highball -- bourbon's vanilla and caramel sweetness pairs beautifully with the sweetness and spice of ginger ale.

Bourbon and Ginger Ale

A classic 1930s rye highball with a citrus twist — rye whiskey shaken with lemon and sugar, then topped with ginger ale in a tall glass. Named for the era's telegraph cables, it's a bright, gingery cousin of the Whiskey Sour built long.

Cablegram

Peru's everyday highball built on grape-forward pisco, ginger ale, and lime with a few dashes of Angostura, giving a bright, lightly spiced lift that drinks like a lighter Moscow Mule.

Chilcano

Peru's beloved pisco highball -- a ginger ale-topped long drink with fresh lime and Angostura that serves as the national cocktail alongside the Pisco Sour.

Chilcano Ginger

Peru's most popular cocktail after the Pisco Sour — pisco over ice with fresh lime, ginger ale for gentle spice and fizz, and Angostura bitters for complexity, a refreshing everyday Lima bar staple of complete simplicity.

Chilcano de Pisco

Bolivia's most beloved pisco cocktail — the name meaning 'cheers' in Quechua — pisco over ginger ale with lime and Angostura bitters creating a simple, fragrant highball that is the essential Bolivian bar drink.

Chuflay

An Edwardian long drink of gin, lime, and raspberry syrup topped with ginger ale, drinking bright and jammy with a gentle ginger snap on the finish.

Floradora

A simple Prohibition-era highball of gin lengthened by ginger ale and lemon, delivering a lightly spiced, citrusy fizz that predates the more famous Moscow Mule.

Gin Buck

Named for the 1900 Broadway musical -- gin with raspberry syrup and lime topped with ginger ale in a fruity, refreshing highball.

Gin Floradora

A simple, classic British pub highball -- London dry gin and ginger ale with lemon, clean and refreshing.

Gin and Ginger Ale

A classic Prohibition-era cooler that lets apple brandy shine — shaken with lemon and sugar, then topped with ginger ale in a tall glass. Crisp apple character, gentle spice from the ginger ale, and citrus brightness make it a supremely drinkable long drink.

Harvard Cooler

The quintessential English summer cooler, a lightly bitter herbal gin-based aperitif stretched with ginger ale and garnished with cucumber and lemon for a garden-party refresher.

Pimm's Cup

A split-soda bourbon highball cut with ginger ale for gentle spice and soda for lift, yielding a dry, effervescent sipper with a lemon-peel twist.

Presbyterian

A dark-and-stormy-style highball of aged rum and ginger ale lifted with lime, where molasses warmth meets ginger's peppery bite for an easy, spicy sipper.

Rum and Ginger

A Canadian highball built simply with rye whiskey, ginger ale, and a lime squeeze, producing an easy, spice-kissed sipper that lets the rye's pepper peek through.

Rye and Ginger

The Scottish solution to the Scotch and Soda — ginger ale's warm spice and sweetness complement Scotch's malt and smoke far better than plain soda water, while the lemon's acidity keeps the sweetness in check.

Scotch and Ginger

Scotch whisky with ginger ale -- smoke and malt tempered by ginger's spice and sweetness in one of Britain's most beloved simple highballs.

Scotch and Ginger Fresh

The diner-counter mocktail bubbling ginger ale over a grenadine splash and orange juice, topped with a Luxardo cherry for a sweet, cherry-tinged childhood classic.

Shirley Temple

The original non-alcoholic classic named for the child actress -- ginger ale, grenadine, and orange juice with a cherry garnish.

Shirley Temple Classic

Tequila and ginger ale with fresh lime -- a crisp, spicy Mexican highball that's refreshing and incredibly easy to drink.

Tequila Ginger Highball

The tequila riff on the classic Presbyterian highball — blanco tequila split between ginger ale and soda water for a lighter, more complex build that carries the ginger spice without overpowering the agave.

Tequila Presbyterian

A lazy-afternoon highball of bourbon stretched with ginger ale and a lime squeeze, trading complexity for easygoing sweetness and a gentle ginger lift.