Um, oh, yeah, male here, I forgot. To mention it, that is. I didn’t forget I’m male. Heh, heh.
And I agree with Sane One. Vernor’s makes an excellent furniture polish, judged on taste.
According to the Wikipedia article, Vernors used to be made with Stevia but now is made with HFCS like everything else. Anyone notice the difference?
TheOnlySaneOne - the Vernors story is (according to Vernors) that the inventor had some ginger ale sitting around in a barrel at home and came back from the Civil War to find that it had completely changed taste after all that time. So the wood or wood cleaner taste you detect might not be too far off!
Lots of Michiganers coming in here - I wonder if my results are going to be skewed by you guys being lured in here exclusively by Vernors in the title?
That is why I came in…
I loove Vernors. I always have some in the fridge. But where I am it’s stocked in the liquor mixer aisle and runs a full three times the price of Coke. So lots of times I’ll substitute a “golden” ginger ale in cheapy 3-liter bottles from Rite-Aid Drugstore. Not as good, but I just can’t afford everything I want every day.
Another Michigander checking in. Vernors is indeed ‘‘the sick pop,’’ and I can’t stand the stuff. I’ve never care for that or anything remotely approximating Ginger Ale. A loud, resounding ‘‘NAY’’ for me, though I didn’t realize the stuff was regional.
Millit, you aren’t in Brooklyn, Michigan, are you by any chance?
I like it and I was very excited when I first found it here in California. There’s a Michigan connection for me, too–when I was a kid we only had it when we stayed at my grandmother’s house in Detroit. So Vernors and handmade hotdogs from the German butcher were special treats.
I love it. I married a Michigander and was converted when I first visited her family. Now when they come to visit they always bring us a case.
Vernor’s is distinctive. Put a can of Vernor’s, a can of Canada Dry, one of Seagram’s, and one of Schweppes up side by side and taste-test them, and Vernor’s will end up on one side and the others will sort of blend into each other, more or less interchangeably, on the other.
I, on the other hand, would klunk down a can of Buffalo Rock, which is equally distinctive and blows away anything else on the countertop.
If you deprive me of Buffalo Rock so that I have to choose from the others, I’d probably go with Schweppes/Seagrams/Canada Dry. I don’t hate Vernor’s but I vote for… meh…
Male.
Okay, you may have just answered a question.
I used to like it a LOT! In the last decade when I’d run across it, it didn’t seem as good. It was still more gingery than Canada Dry, but something was missing.
Somebody told me that they no longer used the oak aging (don’t know where he got his information). Now you’re saying they use high fructos corn syrup, too?
Agreed. it’s not the same as I remember it from my youth. (Male, Cleveland native.) It’s still OK, but it’s no longer “Wow”.
I haven’t drunk it in close on 25 years, but I remember liking it. Of course, I’ll drink just about anything that’s carbonated. Don’t think you can get it in this part of the world (Massachusetts).
They just started carrrying Vernor’s at my local Vons, and seem to have stopped carrying 2-liter Schweppes.
I like Vernor’s bite, but dislike the flavor. Sorry, purists. I like Schweppes.
Male… Yes i love vernor’s
Female, and I love Vernor’s. It’s especially great when I’m ill, but I like it all the time.
Wow, Vernor’s!
Grew up in Cleveland and took it for granted. My parents never considered it a mixer; they used Canada Dry or Schweppe’s for that. Vernor’s was simply too strong, and stepped all over the whiskey in a highball. A Vernor’s/vanilla ice cream float was called a “Boston Cooler.”
Totally unobtainable in the NYC area. On my rare trips back to Cleveland, I make a point of lugging a sixpack or two back to Brooklyn with me. I wish I could still get it in those heavy, clear-glass deposit bottles…
Nah, the one in NY. 
But I married a man from Flint.
It’s the only ginger ale I drink. Diet.
What the heck, is Vernors like a midwest/Michigan thing?
Without comparing it to really hot/authentic ginger brews (it is a totally different thing and shoud be treated as such) I love Vernors for what it is. It has a unique flavor. But most of all I love the way it tickles my nose and back of my throat. My nose gets all twitchy and it makes me want to sneeze. Am I the only one?
Male, 20s, Cleveland area.
To file under coincidence:
Popped into this thread yesterday, but had nothing to add.
Last eve, went to the library. Browsing the new books I picked up Alice Cooper, Golf Monster for a quick read.
Chapter 1, page 10, he describes growing up in Detroit.
“My first memory of growing up in working-class East Detroit is sitting in a smoke-filled living room with my dad and his brothers, watching Friday-night boxing. There was lots of Carling’s Black Label beer and Lucky Strike cigarettes; I would dring Vernor’s ginger ale.”
So maybe you should drink Vernor’s to grow up to be just like Alice!
Another Mid-Western roots (Cleveland) Vernor’s lover (although it’s Diet Vernor’s, now). Stuff can’t touch Blenheim’s, though.