Made this cake today's lovely light cake, I only had DH home-brew Ginger Beer to use, and didn't have stem ginger replaced with crystallized ginger, very quick and easy recipe to follow. Cooked for 40 min. We found the ginger flavor to be very mild. I gave the recipe 10 out of 10. DH gave it a 9 said he would have given it 10 if it was iced, which I don't think is needed.