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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsROOT BEER THREAD PART 1: Post the best root beer you've ever tasted.
For those who love root beer and don't like beer:
A & W root beer from the mid 70's.
ESPECIALLY in a root beer float!
Those big frosty mugs...
loli phabay
(5,580 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)from sassafras root, sugar, and a spritzer bottle.
sakabatou
(42,169 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)some simmered sassafras root and sugar were most of it, but it was a long time ago.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)root beer float with chocolate ice cream. that's the only kind I even like now.
I used to work next to a place that sold slices of cheese cake and IBC root beer. That was a helluvva snack.
fishwax
(29,149 posts)Can't get it this far East, but whenever I go to visit family they usually have some waiting in the fridge for us
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)nineteen cent coneys on Tuesdays didn't hurt either.
MrYikes
(720 posts)Last month I went to Jungle Jim's (large grocery store by Cincy, Ohio). Came home with 4 different root beers. IBC, Stewarts, and two others I can't remember. None tasted good enough to buy more. And that is such a shame. I love root beer.
Archae
(46,340 posts)They make it in Steven's Point, WI.
Arkansas Granny
(31,523 posts)They even had small mugs for the kiddos. Not to mention, you flashed your lights or honked your horn for carhop service.
hlthe2b
(102,328 posts)Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)Made in Milwaukee. I seriously thought I didn't like root beer until I moved to Milwaukee and tried theirs. The Point Brewery up in Stephen's Point, WI also makes a might fine root beer.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)These are the ones I'm currently using.
http://homemadesodacompany.com/http/homemadesodacompany.com/rootbeerandsodainstructions.aspx
#1 tastes the most like A&W, Dads, etc., but it's not quite the same since all natural ingredients are used. #3 has a stronger, more spicy flavor. #2 is a compromise between the two.
benld74
(9,909 posts)Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)There's an A&W that I pass on the way to Bowie Baysox games. I want to stop there everytime and get a root beer. I'm sure it wouldn't taste as good as what I got when I was a kid in the 60s, but it'd still be damned tasty.
turtlerescue1
(1,013 posts)"Dad's" is okay, but nothing compares to the A&W's.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)There's this Amish family that makes homemade Root beer for sale.
handmade34
(22,756 posts)pipi_k
(21,020 posts)A & W root beer.
The best!
Paired with a couple of Mama Burgers with literally everything on them.
Heaven...
eppur_se_muova
(36,280 posts)Haven't seen it in years, except once. Apparently it's still made with cane sugar.
Here's something I'll have to get one day ... http://www.beveragesdirect.com/Ultimate-Root-Beer-Sampler.aspx
Gold Metal Flake
(13,805 posts)But you gotta find them.
I often visit a little store in Little Rock, ca. for small label pops. But there is an online store and you can see just how many small label root beers, birch beers, sasparillas and others there are. Many made with read sugar.
http://www.sodapopstop.com/products/browse.cfm?link=1
Of those available in the usual grocery stores, I prefer IBC to A&W, Dad's and Weinhard's. But I just don't bother with those at all any more. Sioux City, Faygo, Virgil's Thomas Kemper, Mason's Boylan, Hank's, these are good stuffs!
Buuuurrrrraaaapppp!
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Rivertown Pourhouse, home brewed not only great beer that seasonally change, but GREAT root beer AND cream soda!
Yum!
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)The canned stuff cannot match it.
Second place: Hires Root Beer.
One of the restaurants in my neighborhood has a lot of old-time signs on its walls, including one for Hires Root Beer. The first time I went in I asked if they actually sold it, and they said no, but that nearly everyone over a certain age asks that question.
RFKHumphreyObama
(15,164 posts)I grew up in Southeast Asia during the 1980s and A&W was popular there and those rootbeer floats were a highlight. Even now when I go back to that country in Southeast Asia, an A&W rootbear float is a must-do every time
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)Put one in the freezer for an hour, tasted great.
Root Beer seems to tast best in glass bottles.
GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,585 posts)Their cream soda is, too, if you like cream soda.
kcass1954
(1,819 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)last night! So yummy!
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)Put a generous portion of vanilla ice cream into a mug. Slowly add A&W Root beer, mostly cause it foams up, so much. I try to eat the foam away so I can get as much root beer into the mug as possible. Sometimes I will even stir it up so the ice cream will mix in with the soda.
So yummy!
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)But I'm going to use diet A&W root beer, if I can find it, and non-sugar ice cream. Chilled mug. I'm set.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Have not seen it in decades.
We don't have any small root beer breweries around here.
in mug. Yummy
Things to try:
There was a local A&W that sold SwampWater Frosties. Half RB, half Orange soda, whirred all up with ice cream.
Adding cream or half and half to a tall frosted mug tastes like a RB float.
sakabatou
(42,169 posts)Hotler
(11,440 posts)I live near Littleton, Colorado and there is a Murdoch's Farm and Ranch store that bring in Fostie Top from somewhere in the mid-west. Even the diet is really good, large deep foamy head. mmmmmmmm