A quick scan of wikipedia will tell you it’s actually ‘a composite organism consisting of a fungus’. Put simply the living part is yeast and the good news is that it can be fed on a mixture of ginger, sugar and water to provide an endless supply of ginger beer. Reed's, Inc. is a producer of all-natural craft sodas and ginger candy, including Reed's Ginger Beer, Virgil's Root Beer and brewed sodas, Virgil’s Zero Sugar sodas, and Reed’s Ginger Candy.The company was founded by Christopher J. Reed in 1989. It was originally based in Los Angeles, California but moved its headquarters to Norwalk, Connecticut in September 2018. Golden ginger ale, which is a dark, clear carbonated beverage similar to unfermented ginger beer. I imagine the guys in marketing thought that the word ‘plant’ would be more widely accepted. Ginger beer originated in England, ginger ale originated in North America. The distinction between these two things, Ginger Beer Plant and Ginger Bug, is rather confused on the internet, as Ginger Beer Plant, until the discovery of a German culture bank in the 2000’s that had maintained it, had been thought to be lost, as it was predominantly found in the UK widely, until sugar rationing during World War II effectively killed it off. Dry ginger ale, which is lighter in colour than golden ginger ale, and has a milder ginger flavour, generally without the spicy kick.