It’s cause there’s significantly more fresh ginger in them, and I believe more sugar? It’s a mixer soda for the most part but a ginger beer is pretty good in the morning with a couple bitters and some lime for a hangover too.
Ginger beer is the 🐐. The 365 ginger ale at whole foods (if they still make it, haven’t had it in like a decade) used to be the only tolerable ginger ale on the market that actually tasted like ginger.