Thread: root beer

Edmunds Scientifics makes a kit to make your own brewed root beer. I've never tried it so I can't vouch for it but it looks good.

I agree that Root Beer is amazing and I won't take the time to argue a favorite here, but am I alone here in saying... I like Birch Beer better...?

Birch beer is much milder and is ideal with hard cheeses. I prefer IBC as my everyday carry RB. A&W is great out of a frosty mug with a hotdog from the same establishment. I will go ahead and say that Virgil's is amazing and it is available in a 5 liter party keg. How cool is that?!?

Still and all, the absolute best Root Beer I have ever had was made by my Dad's Dad. Adee Floyd Thompson could make a root beer.


Truth be told I have never met one I didn't like.



-Rob

my go to rootbeer here in texas is Frosties in the glass bottle (just always tastes better in glass), how ever the prize for best all around is a toss up between The Willoughby Brewing Company (first brewpun in ohio since prohibition by the way )in Willoughby OH or from The Capital Brewery in Madison WI. i like A&W when in the mood and mostly only on draft unless i want it with ice cream. as soon as i get settled in kentucky (sometime next month hopefully) i plan to start making my own. although has a mainstream cola company EVER had better than any local brew?? i think not, it seems even the worst local brew is better than the best main stream brand IMHO

And yes birch beer is great, i have an old fashioned ice cream parlor back home that has it on draft it is perfect for birch floats.

-dan-

just checked out the virgils sight and found the 5 liter pony keg 18 DOLLARS FOR 5 LITERS holy cow what is keeping me from keeping this in the house ALL the time

-dan-

My Amish friends make their own rootbeer and sell it roadside by the glass or jug. Theirs is just rootbeer extract, water and yeast. Quite a bit different than the carbonated water variants. The yeast creates the carbonation but it needs to be refrigerated after a day or two. Pretty short shelf life due to the yeast and my wife laughs when I call it "belly ache beer". One can only drink so much before the yeast starts messing with the digestive tract. This is non-alcoholic even though yeast is used.


Tony

The Rootbeer Brothers

[quote=jockeys;282534]Virgil's handcrafted root beer is the best. it's made with all the attention to detail as a fine craft beer. i recommend you all try it... you'll never be able to choke a&w down ever again.

I remember how incredibly good the A&W in a frosted mug was when I was in my 5’s (I’m 51 now). Current A&W sure does not taste like it, even in their “restaurants”, nothing I’ve found does. I’m going to hunt down Virgil’s with a passion now.

Root beer is hard to find here in Belize but Bowen & Bowen, the fellows that offer the national beer, Belikin, and Coca-Cola brand soft drinks have one. I'm not sure what brand it is. It comes in a Fanta bottle but I don't think it is Fanta root beer. I buy it by the crate because I'm not driving past their distribution centre every day.

When it is the only thing you've got, its nice enough.

There's a drive-in in OKC called Coit's. Their root beer is by far the best I've ever had. Of course, that could be because I've been drinking it since I was three! I simply can't choke down A&W or Barq's- it just tastes fake to me.