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Is it tough to find out your way? I used to pick it up anywhere that sold soda up in MA but the last few times I've been up to the cottage it's been hella hard to find.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ogershok
Also, the July or August issue of Yankee had a big spread about it on the back page.
While that has recently become true in the terms of the commercial economy we now exist in; it has little to do with the origins of the product.Quote:
Originally Posted by MickR
All of my recipes are as old or older than most of my razors. I am picky about what is considered a soda or a soft beer.
In tradition ginger ale is only one form of a soft beer in a category known as ginger beer. While the brewing process is generally considered only the portion of where the starter or syrup is produced others would consider fermentation as an elemental component of the process.
The non-alcoholic versions are generally made with either a mixture of syrup or starter and either carbonated water, carbonation tablets (basically like alkaseltzer) or forced carbonation using a carbon pump or carbon dioxide cartridges like those used for bicycles. When true soft drinks were invented and much more common than they are now it was far from uncommon to see them brewing starters and pumping carbon dioxide from cartridges than it was to utilize a system created by nature and harvested by brewer's for an uncountable number of years.
So, if by the standards of modern and localized symantics and the acceptance of modern near flavorless sodas are embraced than I cannot account for the differences here. What I can hope is that no one takes offence for my standing by my statement and sitting here enjoying a true ginger ale I made recently with a small, but noticeable alcoholic content gifted to me and a kick that would turn a salt to a soprano.
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I really need to learn how to make my own. I love ginger. And currently have my first ever batch of rootbeer sitting in the pantry fermenting.Quote:
Originally Posted by MickR
there's a good number here... up on the north side of town (6500 meridian St.) there's a temple, and there's another temple somewhere on the north east side where they all live in walking distance so they don't have to drive on the sabbath. Most of the Jews around here are messianic, so I don't know if they follow Kosher or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChesterCopperpot
As for Moxie, I've never had it straight, just mixed with liqour, so I don't know what its like.
The best we can get here is Jones, there used to be a quality soda shop in St Louis that was amazing I used to buy a couple of build your own six packs usually filled with flathead. Unfortunately it's been closed for over a year.
Soda for me. Here in Ga everything is Coke though. I try to not drink soda, but when I do it is Sprite or root beer. My Dad brews his own beer and one year he made root beer for me that was real good. It had some serious bite. Anyone like A-Treat from Allentown PA? I grew up on that stuff living in North NJ. Just had a neighbor of my Dad's go back to NJ and she brought back some A-Treat. It was nice. It is considered cheap soda though.
Like the Australians in New Zealand we tend to refer to "soft drinks" by their commercial name rather than soda or pop. Kids might understand the concept of soda depending on how much American TV they watch.
Soda here would be a shortened term for Soda Water which is simply carbonated, unflavoured water.
A Coke is made by Coca-Cola and certainly not something to be confused with Pepsi.
Sprite / 7-Up and similar products are collectively known as lemonade.... something that made ordering mixed drinks in an American bar and interesting experience.
They thought I was mad when I asked for "vodka, lime & lemonade" - the reply I got was
"Well, we only have pink lemonade." Fortunately I remembered where I was and changed the order to include Sprite.
What? The funny accents didn't give it away? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by nzFuzzy
Mick
I just today found that my all-time favorite pop, Cock 'n' Bull Ginger Beer, is available in a nearby grocery store for the first time in 15 years. It's my favorite of the ginger beers I've tried.
I also found Sioux City Sarsaparilla at the same store, which has also been unavailable locally for a long time.
Of the mass produced products, I prefer Coke and Ruby Red Squirt to most other pops.
I would like to try Moxie some time, but they don't sell it around here.
The discontinued pops I miss the most are OK Soda (everything's going to be OK) and Josta.
Im a sucker for apple beer when I can find it.
I'll tell you something that I haven't seen in a long time is Jolt Cola...it had twice the caffeine and sugar IIRC. That stuff along with ramen noodles got me thru college!
Anyone else ever browse the "international sections" of the grocery store and pick up some of the different sodas?
Most recently, I've been hooked on Juaritto's Lime flavored soda. It is delicious with a strong sweet lime flavor!
Also, if you didn't already know, the Coca-Cola sold in Mexico is still made with real sugar and tastes way better than the cheaper to produce stuff they've been selling us for decades! Buy some if you see it.
I second the Coca-Cola made in Mexico. A local store sells it and it is delicious. I believe it has cane sugar.
There is a store in So Cal that has just about every type of soda you can imagine. I've yet to visit, but here's a link to their web page: Enter Store
Herman josephs rootbeer... It's the best!
Moxie!
I buy it by the case when I can find it and then savor its amazingness south of the Mason Dixon line where it blows peoples minds.
World Market has a nice soda variety
Yep that's about 10 minutes away from my house. It's the Mecca for soda pop, and the owner is one of the nicest people alive, as well as he knows everything about soda. My personal fav is Virgil's root beer by the mini keg :)Quote:
Originally Posted by honedright