Thread: root beer

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.

I'm a barqs guy. but what about Birch Beer?

I prefer a really strong ginger beer myself. I've mostly given up on everything but green tea, water and the occasional juice though.

Years ago when I was a kid my folks had a small restaurant in the upper peninsula of Michigan, my father would make his own root beer in the kitchen in a quite large stock pot, IT WAS GOOOOOD! The guy still wont share the recipe with me. There used to be all sorts of good commercially made root beers to choose from, but over the years the different bottlers have either gone out or have been bought up and invariably the recipe gets changed, and never for the better. Now they are just carbonated sugary drinks with some flavor thrown in, although there is one root beer/hamburger stand in Independence MO(Mugs Up)that still has a decent root beer, not the best Ive ever had, but far superior to the mass produced junk commonly available!

Oh ,did you guys ever get me in trouble. (There's a shock, nothing I have ever bought due to seeing it on this site has ever gotten me glanced at askew by my dear bride!)
I was sent out to Whole foods to get:
1) Yogurt for wife
2) Baby food for baby
3) Avocado and banas to make more baby food for baby


I came home with:
1) Yogurt for wife
2) Baby food for baby
3) Avocado and banas to make more baby food for baby
4) $30 dollars worth of rootbeer.


YUMMY! So far, I like "Virgil's" the best, but I have a two more varieties to try out tonight.
Must find purveyor of MORE, MORE!!!!
Crap, now I have RBAD.