Summer is for Root Beer

[gblowfish]

I really love Root Beer. I not supposed to drink sugary soft drinks, so when I do have a root beer, its Diet. I like IBC, Stewart's, Frost Top and A&W pretty much in that order. What root beer is good where you live?

I've also had Frosty and Barq's, Dad's, and Hires -which is close to impossible to find any more.

Best regular root beer is in my hometown Independence, MO, at Mug's Up. Link:
http://mugsup.com/

One of my St. Louis pals told me about a place in Brentwood called "Carl's" that he likes.

Tell me about your root beer fix!

Oh, BTW: IBC makes great cream and black cherry sodas too. They started in the depression brewed by a beer brewery in St. Louis to keep in business.

[keg in kc]

I kinda like Culver's root beer when I happen to grab a burger there.

A&W isn't what it used to be. At least it doesn't seem like it to me.

[blaise]

Jones root beer is awesome.

[OrtonsPiercedTaint]

I had a Diet Birch Beer from an Amish store the other day. It just made me wish I had, had an A&W Diet Root beer instead.

[gblowfish]

One of the things about A&W is it's owned by Dr. Pepper. They also own Hires.
http://www.drpeppersnapplegroup.com/brands/hires/

They took Hires off the market to keep A&W on the shelf. Too bad, Hires was a better product. The new A&W 10 calorie is pretty good for a diet root beer.

Nothing is better than draft, home brewed root beer like Mugs Up. It's the ultimate.

[KCUnited]

McCoy's has pretty good house made root beer. I take a growler of it down to my father in law whenever we go, he's old and loves that shit.

[gblowfish]

A friend of mine in California likes this stuff, but if you want to buy it online, it's $50 for a 24 pack. Yikes!

http://thomaskemper.com/our-sodas#.UeHvTVOkXWY

Here's the story of how IBC got started in St. Louis:
http://www.ibcrootbeer.com/history.aspx

[gblowfish]

Killebrew Root Beer in Minnesota is good too. I've had this before. Tasty stuff:
http://killebrewrootbeer.com/

[Ace Gunner]

best root beer on the market imo
http://rootbeerbarrel.com/images/bottles/blue_sky.JPG

[Psyko Tek]

my youngest son loves
DR brown,s he got it at pink's shot dogs in LA
used to get it at bev-mo but he says it's gone

and yeah I lover hires in the day

[SPATCH]

I had Maine Root - Root Beer the other day from the fountain. Holy shit, man. I had never heard of the stuff, but it was one of the best sodas I have ever had.

[gblowfish]

When I was a kid, we had Dog N Suds Root Beer. I have a Dog n Suds mug around here somewhere.

[Captain Obvious]

Rusty Jug in El Dorado Springs. Homemade root beer and kick ass BBQ.

[gblowfish]

I get Frost Top at my local Ace Hardware store. It's $1.19 for a quart. It's pretty good.
http://www.frostop.com/

[TribalElder]

Sarsaparilla is my jam
http://siciliangirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/sioux-city-sarsaparilla-label.jpg

[gblowfish]

One of my friends who lives in Madison, WI says this is the shiznit:
http://www.sprecherbrewery.com/soda.php

[HoneyBadger]

Fuck you all. Now I want a RB float. It's going to kill my diet.

[rockymtnchief]

Other than diet, I haven't met a root beer I don't like.

[Saccopoo]

Root Beer is serious business.

Is absolutely spectacular with a good cigar.

My daughter and I have tried every new root beer we've seen and have been keeping a comprehensive ratings list of all the root beer we've tasted over the past three years.

This one still tops my list:

http://www.rodale.com/files/images/slideshow2/healthy-soda-virgils.jpg

[gblowfish]

I love Root Beer, I also love Ginger Ale. The Best on those are Vernor's (really the best of them all) Schweppe's and Canada Dry.

Vernor's is a great soda. It's the hometown drink in Detroit. Good stuff.

[Cannibal]

BJ's Brew house makes their own cream soda and root beer. I haven't tried them though.

[Cannibal]

Here's their beer list.

http://www.bjsbrewhouse.com/bj-beers

[threebag]

Nu Way Cafe has awesome root beer in a frosted mug.


Crumbly is Good

[keg in kc]

I love Root Beer, I also love Ginger Ale. The Best on those are Vernor's (really the best of them all) Schweppe's and Canada Dry.

Vernor's is a great soda. It's the hometown drink in Detroit. Good stuff.I love Vernor's (my Dad's from Ann Arbor so I started drinking it very young) but I haven't had it in years and years. I can't remember the last time I saw it in a store in KC. I was just thinking about this the other day.

I think Schweppe's and Canada Dry are very bland. Lately I've been drinking Seagram's.

[Groves]

I grew up fairly close to Carl's in STL. Superior rootbeer, and great greasy spoon eats, too.

Nothing says loyalty like, "I'll even take a left turn onto Manchester Road".

The rootbeer from Flatbranch brewery in CoMo is another I like a lot. It's one of three no-questions-asked ways for friends to spend my money and collect when they see me, plus a tip for their delivery.

[BigMeatballDave]

I love RB, but Frost Top is fucking awful.

[BigMeatballDave]

I love Root Beer, I also love Ginger Ale. The Best on those are Vernor's (really the best of them all) Schweppe's and Canada Dry.

Vernor's is a great soda. It's the hometown drink in Detroit. Good stuff.

Ugh. Vernor's is terrible.

[blaise]

I think Vernor's is gross, too.

[J Diddy]

I read the OP and it was like I was listening to a few minutes with Andy Rooney. From beginning to end I read it in Rooney stereo.

[Predarat]

Nu Way Cafe has awesome root beer in a frosted mug.


Crumbly is Good

That stuff is some of the best ever. AandW can be if its freshly made AND made right. Its tough to find one or the other now days much less both.

[gblowfish]

I love Vernor's (my Dad's from Ann Arbor so I started drinking it very young) but I haven't had it in years and years. I can't remember the last time I saw it in a store in KC. I was just thinking about this the other day.

I think Schweppe's and Canada Dry are very bland. Lately I've been drinking Seagram's.

You can get Vernor's at Hy Vee. It's pricey, it comes in a six pack for about $4. A really great summer treat is a "Boston Cooler." That's a Vernor's Ice Cream Soda, Vernor's over French Vanilla Ice Cream. They call it a "Boston Cooler" because it was invented on Boston Street in Detroit.

And yes, Seagram's Ginger Ale is very dry and tastes good too.

Those people who say Vernor's is "terrible" just don't know what Ginger Ale is supposed to taste like. Vernor's is one of the oldest soft drink recipes in the USA. It was invented during the Civil War.

[gblowfish]

I read the OP and it was like I was listening to a few minutes with Andy Rooney. From beginning to end I read it in Rooney stereo.

I'll take that as a compliment. I like compliments. You don't receive them every day. Sometimes you can go a week without a compliment. Those are harder weeks to get through. When you get a compliment, it changes your whole disposition, usually for the better. That's what I think. Is that what you think? (Pardon me while i trim the hairs in my nose, my ears and my bushy eyebrows.....)

[keg in kc]

You can get Vernor's at Hy Vee. It's pricey, it comes in a six pack for about $4. A really great summer treat is a "Boston Cooler." That's a Vernor's Ice Cream Soda, Vernor's over French Vanilla Ice Cream. They call it a "Boston Cooler" because it was invented on Boston Street in Detroit. Yeah, HyVee was where I used to get it, but it seemed to disappear off the shelves about 5 years ago, at least here in OP. I'll have to check again, I haven't shopped there regularly in a few years.

[Groves]

Vernors was my dads favorite soda. RIP.

Still remember the cough that all of us kids would have when that Vernors fizz would meet the nostrils.

[gblowfish]

Story on Vernor's is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernors

[J Diddy]

I'll take that as a compliment. I like compliments. You don't receive them every day. Sometimes you can go a week without a compliment. Those are harder weeks to get through. When you get a compliment, it changes your whole disposition, usually for the better. That's what I think. Is that what you think? (Pardon me while i trim the hairs in my nose, my ears and my bushy eyebrows.....)

I give that a 10 on the diddy impersonation scale. Well done.

:thumb:

[gblowfish]

Yeah, HyVee was where I used to get it, but it seemed to disappear off the shelves about 5 years ago, at least here in OP. I'll have to check again, I haven't shopped there regularly in a few years.
Price Chopper at 87th and Antioch has Vernor's too. It's in six packs by the drink mixers.

[BigMeatballDave]

Those people who say Vernor's is "terrible" just don't know what Ginger Ale is supposed to taste like. Vernor's is one of the oldest soft drink recipes in the USA. It was invented during the Civil War.Seagrams and Canada Dry are good. Vernor's is shit.