Who makes the best root beer?

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Posted: 10/2/2021 9:27:55 PM EDT

My rating on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being the worst.

Barq's 1
Mug 3
A&W 6
1919 7
Sprecher 4
Killebrew 6
Lift Bridge 4

Apparently some brewers are doing root beers. Going to have to try them.

https://www.growlermag.com/5-minnesota-brewers-proving-root-beer-craft/

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:30:57 PM EDT

[#1]

A&W

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:31:10 PM EDT

[#2]

Like IBC

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:33:11 PM EDT

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I may or might not have had that one. I'll have to try it.

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:33:43 PM EDT

[#4]

My 11 year old says Mug.

I say Virgils.

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:34:38 PM EDT

[#5]

SPNI. IBC is the best

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:34:42 PM EDT

[#6]

Some restaurant in San Diego; can't remember the name.

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:35:00 PM EDT

[#7]

If we're talking about mass produced, Meijer generic (8 or 9). Seriously. Oddly enough, Kroger generic is the worst (1).

If anything goes, then Boylan Natural (10). I did a fairly comprehensive taste test test years ago.

Interesting trivia. It's technically illegal to use sassafras root bark anymore because there was a study out there linking it to cancer or something. IIRC it's far less dangerous than cigarettes but then again nobody was there to complain when they banned it. That being said, I think some manufacturers still use it anyway.

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:35:54 PM EDT

[#8]

IBC and Virgil's

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:35:57 PM EDT

[#9]

Wife says nope to IBC. Too bitter.

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:36:40 PM EDT

[#10]

I say Sprecher, my wife says Abita

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:36:53 PM EDT

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Ice cold.

The only answer here, OP.

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:37:15 PM EDT

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If we're talking about mass produced, Meijer generic (8 or 9). Seriously. Oddly enough, Kroger generic is the worst (1).

If anything goes, then Boylan Natural (10). I did a fairly comprehensive taste test test years ago.

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Unfortunately no Meijers here. I'll have to look for Boylan.

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:37:42 PM EDT

[#13]

1919 FTW

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:37:45 PM EDT

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Abita would be new for us. Another to try.

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:38:25 PM EDT

[#15]

Weinhards

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:38:41 PM EDT

[#16]

SPNI

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:38:46 PM EDT

[#17]

Barq’s

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:39:41 PM EDT

[#18]

Ponil

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:40:00 PM EDT

[#19]

Nuway. Local “loose burger” joint here.

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:40:05 PM EDT

[#20]

I like Boylan, they also make a great birch beer too.

Eta their cream soda is fantastic too.

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:42:13 PM EDT

[#21]

Yeah... I'm gonna have to disagree with you on this one. My vote goes for Barq's in a glass bottle. Add a fried shrimp po'boy, a few pounds of truly spicy boiled crawfish, and maybe a smoked mullet, and I am in Heaven.

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:42:31 PM EDT

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Boylan regular is okay. But the natural is key.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000A6DKKG

I have no idea where to find it in stock or if they even make it anymore

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:43:13 PM EDT

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Yeah... I'm gonna have to disagree with you on this one. My vote goes for Barq's in a glass bottle. Add a fried shrimp po'boy, a few pounds of truly spicy boiled crawfish, and maybe a smoked mullet, and I am in Heaven.

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Straight up the worst. Generic walmart brand root beer would trump it by a significant amount.

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:43:30 PM EDT

[#24]

Culver’s root beer is very good

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:43:44 PM EDT

[#25]

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That it is.

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:44:00 PM EDT

[#26]

Sprechers.
Then A&W from the restaurant, not cans/bottles from the store.
Grays (bottled here so some bias)
IBC

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:45:46 PM EDT

[#27]

IBC

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:46:22 PM EDT

[#28]

None of the above. The best so far is Jackson Hole Sarsaparilla Soda. Nothing so far is even close.

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:47:33 PM EDT

[#29]

IBC

or nothing

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:48:09 PM EDT

[#30]

Bang's™ root beer is the best root beer because it's the only root beer with aged thyme

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:50:58 PM EDT

[#31]

A long time ago in MT. Chugs Choice, haven't seen it in years.

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:51:06 PM EDT

[#32]

A brand I haven't had since I was a kid: Dad's Old Fashioned Root Beer

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:54:23 PM EDT

[#33]

^

Posted: 10/2/2021 9:55:29 PM EDT

[#34]

Hires was always my favorite as a kid. Haven’t seen it forever.

Posted: 10/2/2021 10:01:18 PM EDT

[#35]

Out of those, A&W all day. For fancier, I like Boylan

Posted: 10/2/2021 10:02:12 PM EDT

[#36]

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If we're talking about mass produced, Meijer generic (8 or 9). Seriously. Oddly enough, Kroger generic is the worst (1).

If anything goes, then Boylan Natural (10). I did a fairly comprehensive taste test test years ago.

Interesting trivia. It's technically illegal to use sassafras root bark anymore because there was a study out there linking it to cancer or something. IIRC it's far less dangerous than cigarettes but then again nobody was there to complain when they banned it. That being said, I think some manufacturers still use it anyway.

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Someone here pointed out that most root beer is flavored with wintergreen and vanilla. Sprechers or ibc

Posted: 10/2/2021 10:03:01 PM EDT

[#37]

Dang!

Posted: 10/2/2021 10:04:42 PM EDT

[#38]

dupe post. I’m on a s l o w connection today.

Posted: 10/2/2021 10:05:12 PM EDT

[#39]

Frostop is pretty good as far as distributed commercial root beers are concerned.

Posted: 10/2/2021 10:05:30 PM EDT

[#40]

I don’t know if it’s still around, but Henry Weinhards made a great root beer in their day.

Posted: 10/2/2021 10:05:44 PM EDT

[#41]

Co-worker told me to try Fitz's. It's cane sugar and quite good. Good luck finding it. Rural King had it near me.

Posted: 10/2/2021 10:06:41 PM EDT

[#42]

Abita Beer....makes the best root beer

Posted: 10/2/2021 10:08:17 PM EDT

[#43]

A&W and Barrelhead

Barq's is too sweet for me.

Posted: 10/2/2021 10:08:23 PM EDT

[#44]

Virgil’s

A&W is my go to for when I can’t find the good stuff.

Posted: 10/2/2021 10:09:38 PM EDT

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Frostop is quite good.

Posted: 10/2/2021 10:09:49 PM EDT

[#46]

Point Premiun Root Beer

Posted: 10/2/2021 10:12:45 PM EDT

[#47]

Frostie's

Posted: 10/2/2021 10:14:05 PM EDT

[#48]

Not root-beer but sassafras tea is an old remedy, supposedly someone decided to use it to make root-beer at some point with it. It is or was a medicinal thing, but seems the fda banned it, but kinda odd the natives and the settlers used it and didn't get cancer. Shit is hard to dig up, as the tap root goes deep and tough. Used a truck to pull it out the ground.

Posted: 10/2/2021 10:14:28 PM EDT

[#49]

My nephew makes a killer non-alcoholic root Beer at his brewery.

A&W Diet Root Beer was the bomb! Then they pulled a Coke and make Sugar Free that tastes like shit.

Posted: 10/2/2021 10:14:40 PM EDT

[#50]

Friend of mine in high school, his father brewed root beer 15 proof.
Super fizzy, strong taste. You wouldn't want to get drunk on it, but a glass now and then was awesome.

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