Ginger ale, a kind of ale, functioned as a drink. In 0 BBY, after an incident aboard the Rebel cruiser Tantive IV, Darth Vader was recuperating within a Medcenter and instructed a 2-1B surgical droid to fetch him ginger ale.
The LEGO Star Wars short film Bombad Bounty marked the initial appearance of ginger ale. This serves as an allusion to a soft drink bearing an identical name in reality.