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Over the years, I've encountered a few recipes for making ginger ale at home, but none of them have ever been all that great. For the most part, they involve making a ginger syrup and just adding it to club soda at whatever level of concentration suits you. I can see that -- it's basically how soda companies do it (think about the dispenser machines at McDonalds, et.al.).
The DIY site Wikihow has a page with a somewhat different method. You use active yeast to produce the carbonation right in the mixture itself. This should produce a much stronger and fizzier ginger ale than pouring sugar syrup in already-carbonated water. It also produces a small amount alcohol, but not enough to give it a kick unless you let it overferment, and then you're probably not going to want to drink it.
After I get back fromy my trip, I'll give this a try and let you know how it turned out.
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