Yes.
Ginger Beer is made from ginger, water, sugar, lemon juice and a rather special bacterial-fungal symbiote known, unsurprisingly, as the Ginger Beer Plant. It ferments up to 11% alcohol.
However, most things called ginger beer today are soft drinks, and i don't think there's a single alcoholic Ginger Ale on the market. The difference between ginger ale and ginger beer is huge.
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some brands use real Ginger but others use chemicals to make it taste like ginger.
Be Careful, read the label.
You can if you want to. Try it over the sink first, because you're going to provide tons of nucleation sites and all the "fizz" is going to come out in a hurry.