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Posted: 4/26/2015 12:21:43 PM EDT
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IBC is good, Dads? Barqs has a little bit different flavor/zip than most root beers, Dang! Is pretty good,Virgil's is pretty good, A&W makes better cream soda than root beer, Sprecher is good, Culvers restaurant has fantastic root beer, jones is okay, weinhards is okay, old town root beer co. makes a good sarsparilla, I think the best root beer I've ever had though was somewhere in New Mexico at a little backpacking resupply near Baldy mtn. they made it there, no idea what it was called.
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Posted: 4/26/2015 12:26:07 PM EDT
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There can be only one. http://www.bevreview.com/wp-content/image_henryweinhard_rootbeer1a.jpg this |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 12:27:08 PM EDT
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Virgils in the keg. This! |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 12:27:41 PM EDT
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IBC root beer i also vote ibc in the glass bottle. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 12:29:21 PM EDT
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Pennsylvania Dutch Birch Beer had some last weekend for the first time in years. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 12:29:32 PM EDT
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Virgil's root beer and hogen daz vanilla ice cream
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Posted: 4/26/2015 12:30:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Draft A&W. /thread There is only one... |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 12:31:15 PM EDT
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Anything made with actual cane sugar rather than corn syrup. Yes |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 12:34:59 PM EDT
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Not a big help for most of you, but there is a little 50's style burger chain in western NY that makes their own. Tom Wahls. The burgers are decent, but that root beer is some of the best I have ever had.
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Posted: 4/26/2015 12:49:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryI buy that stuff often.  |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 1:07:27 PM EDT
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Every one of you are all WRONG! "Not Your Father's Root Beer", by Small Town Brewery. I swear it reminds me of the homemade root beer my grandmother would
make occasionally around the Holidays whence I still believed in Santa (early 60's). You wouldn't know this stuff is 5.9% ABV. 'til you see it on the label. You could pour over ice cream and enjoy if you desire. Trust me on this, it IS that damn good.
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Posted: 4/26/2015 1:11:08 PM EDT
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A&W in a jug, circa 1975.
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Posted: 4/26/2015 1:11:15 PM EDT
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Stewarts easily.
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Posted: 4/26/2015 1:15:16 PM EDT
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http://acimg.auctivacommerce.com/imgdata/0/2/3/4/5/2/webimg/5293156.jpgAbita Root Beer is made with a hot mix process using spring water, herbs, vanilla and yucca (which creates foam). Unlike most soft drink manufacturers, Abita sweetens its root beer with pure Louisiana cane sugar. The resulting taste is reminiscent of soft drinks made in the 1940s and 1950s, before bottlers turned to corn sugar and fructose. Nailed it. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 1:17:02 PM EDT
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Virgils in the keg. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 1:22:15 PM EDT
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It's ALL good. Don't be an elitist.
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Posted: 4/26/2015 1:27:22 PM EDT
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Foxon Park....For all the things! |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 1:36:25 PM EDT
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My favorite is Thomas Kemper.
Joe's, from here in town, is pretty good, too. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 1:37:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryGross. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 1:40:47 PM EDT
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Barq's. I like the bite.
Dr. McGillicudy's. Slightly strange taste, but I've come to LOVE it. Henry Weinhard's. I had it in Paonia, CO a few years ago and looked at ordering some. I've bought high end bourbon for cheaper than I could get a case of HW's. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 1:44:50 PM EDT
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Just a question for the guys who know alot about the 19th century, in the old west. Didn't they drink sarsaparilla back then? and is Root beer actually another name for sarsaparilla? They're all variations of the same idea. Root Beer used to be typically sassafras flavored. Sassafras was banned because it gave lab rats cancer. Nobody suggested we should just ban it for lab rats but it is what it is. Most root beer now is just a mix of two main flavoring agents, artificial wintergreen and vanilla. Sarsparilla is a similar drink made with the sarsaparilla root or an artificial version of same. Birch beer is a similar drink made with sweet birch, either tips or bark, not sure. "Cola flavor" at it's most basic is just a mix of vanilla and cinnamon. Sometimes with different generics you can tell which predominates if you think about it. The big names in any of the above add other flavors to make their distinct brands different. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 1:45:57 PM EDT
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IBC is good, Dads? Barqs has a little bit different flavor/zip than most root beers, Dang! Is pretty good,Virgil's is pretty good, A&W makes better cream soda than root beer, Sprecher is good, Culvers restaurant has fantastic root beer, jones is okay, weinhards is okay, old town root beer co. makes a good sarsparilla, I think the best root beer I've ever had though was somewhere in New Mexico at a little backpacking resupply near Baldy mtn. they made it there, no idea what it was called. "Barqs has bite" because caffeine has a bitter flavor. 
I like it though. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 1:46:08 PM EDT
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Jones Soda
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Posted: 4/26/2015 1:48:47 PM EDT
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My kids and I like Frostops.
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Posted: 4/26/2015 1:51:01 PM EDT
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A root beet float would be awesome right now but currently Texas is out of ice cream.
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Posted: 4/26/2015 1:58:44 PM EDT
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You should see the look on a European's face when they come here and taste root beer for the first time. 
They cannot believe that we drink the stuff. Dr. Pepper seems to really confuse them too. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 2:02:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Dang! Root beer. /thread ETA: Owned and operated by an arfcommer This x 87ty billionz. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 2:03:33 PM EDT
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I loved Frostie root beer when I was a kid. I probably haven't had a bottle since the early '70s...
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Posted: 4/26/2015 2:06:20 PM EDT
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The real Stewart's from Huntington.
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Posted: 4/26/2015 2:06:51 PM EDT
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Haven't had root beer or a root beer float in a long time.
Almost as long as since my last Papa Burger.
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Posted: 4/26/2015 2:08:51 PM EDT
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Saint Arnold's for the win! Although draft Abita isn't bad either. 2nd for St. Arnold's, makes the other stuff taste like garbage. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 2:08:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: A root beet float would be awesome right now but currently Texas is out of ice cream. Braums has plenty of ice cream....better than Blue Bell too.   |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 2:09:52 PM EDT
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Barq's? Mug? IBC?
I can't believe some of you guys. Those root beers are disgusting. I consider myself to be a root beer snob, here are some of my favorites, in no particular order: Sprecher Dang! Culvers' restaurant brand St. John's Virgin Island root beer A&W (the only "mainstream" root beer worth drinking) |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 2:11:48 PM EDT
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Home made is my favorite. Haven't had that in years....
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Posted: 4/26/2015 2:16:18 PM EDT
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Braums has plenty of ice cream....better than Blue Bell too.
http://www.braums.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Eggnogicecream.png Quote HistoryQuoted:
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A root beet float would be awesome right now but currently Texas is out of ice cream.
http://www.braums.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Eggnogicecream.png i had never been to a Bruam's until i moved to Ft Worth from Houston. Their ice cream is good. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 2:20:56 PM EDT
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Boylans
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Posted: 4/26/2015 2:30:11 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/26/2015 2:31:28 PM EDT
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Braums has plenty of ice cream....better than Blue Bell too.
http://www.braums.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Eggnogicecream.png That Ice Cream in some A&W and I would be in heavan!
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Posted: 4/26/2015 2:52:14 PM EDT
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A root beet float would be awesome right now but currently Texas is out of ice cream. Flags at half mast for Blue Bell. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 2:55:40 PM EDT
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Dang! Root beer. /thread ETA: Owned and operated by an arfcommer |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 3:01:50 PM EDT
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1/3 Buffalo Trace Bourbon Cream and 2/3 Root Beer = Adult Root Beer Float
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Posted: 4/26/2015 3:04:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: A&W in a jug, circa 1975. There is an A&W in Chattanooga that (up until a couple of years ago) make the old-school recipe in a wooden barrel and put a tap on it for you to drink from. That creamy, sugary, root beer-y flavor that I remember from the early 70's. We went there for lunch, and by the time everybody had finished ordering their food at the counter, I'd drunk 8 frosty mugs of the stuff. It was ambrosia and nectar, all rolled into one. I think they said they used 8 lbs. of cane sugar for each 33 gallon batch. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 3:07:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Barq's? Mug? IBC? I can't believe some of you guys. Those root beers are disgusting. I consider myself to be a root beer snob, here are some of my favorites, in no particular order: Sprecher Dang! Culvers' restaurant brand St. John's Virgin Island root beer A&W (the only "mainstream" root beer worth drinking) Culver's eh? Never tried it, although we're getting quite a few of them opening here Florida lately. Damn good. Try the pot roast sandwich. And next year in the fall they'll bring back the fried Walleye sandwich. Dear God that thing is amazing... I've got some of their ice cream in the freezer. Might have fill up a growler and bring it home... |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 3:15:28 PM EDT
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Barq's Yup or IBC |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 4:59:18 PM EDT
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1/3 Buffalo Trace Bourbon Cream and 2/3 Root Beer = Adult Root Beer Float http://www.buffalotracedistillery.com/sites/default/files/bourbon-cream_bottles.png Wow! Now I'm on a mission. Thank you. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 5:01:50 PM EDT
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I have to try that some time. I do like Sprecher's though. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Dang! Root beer. /thread ETA: Owned and operated by an arfcommer I have to try that some time. I do like Sprecher's though. Sprecher's Root Beer and Cream Soda are so freaking amazing....I haven't had anything that tastes better...perfection in a bottle... I just tried their Strawberry seasonal one...oh my god, like drinking real strawberries... Until I come across better, Sprechers is it! |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 5:01:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 1/3 Buffalo Trace Bourbon Cream and 2/3 Root Beer = Adult Root Beer Float http://www.buffalotracedistillery.com/sites/default/files/bourbon-cream_bottles.png That sounds like some good stuff! |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 5:25:54 PM EDT
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Dr. Pepper seems to really confuse them too. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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You should see the look on a European's face when they come here and taste root beer for the first time.
They cannot believe that we drink the stuff. Dr. Pepper seems to really confuse them too. Yep, I have Finnish relatives. I swear they thought someone had just shit in their mouths. |
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Posted: 4/26/2015 5:35:02 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/26/2015 5:39:35 PM EDT
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Somewhere I read an article on rootbeer that called it "the bacon of soft drinks". That is true I believe
I will occasionally buy a couple bottles of root beer at the local hardware store. They sell several brands from around the country. I only buy the ones made with cane sugar, not corn syrup when I do that. Most have been very good. The sasparilla flavors are by far the best. |
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