Author Topic: Anyone else feeling an uncontrolled need for root beer lately? (Read 6258 times)

onions! · « **on:** June 19, 2007, 04:08:32 PM »

It's wierd & I can't explain it.For about the last week & a half I can't stop wanting,nay needing,root beer.

I don't know if it's just that I'm seeing it in stores that I normally wouldn't or that more brands than I recall are available.

I just desire the stuff right now.

I am the only one,aren't I?

Mabs2 · « **Reply #1 on:** June 19, 2007, 05:07:06 PM »

I've always loved root beer.
When I decided to switch to diet sodas for my health, I was so upset over giving it up...
BUT THEN I DISCOVERED DIET A&W
And life has been good.

RocketMan · « **Reply #2 on:** June 19, 2007, 05:09:58 PM »

Quote from: mbs357 on June 19, 2007, 04:07:06 PM

I've always loved root beer.
When I decided to switch to diet sodas for my health, I was so upset over giving it up...
BUT THEN I DISCOVERED DIET A&W
And life has been good.

Diet A&W is good stuff! I don't miss the leaded variety at all, unlike other sodas.

Fly320s · « **Reply #3 on:** June 19, 2007, 05:10:19 PM »

Close, but not quite. That applies to both the desire for Root Beer and and diet sodas.

I have had a desire for a root beer float. Mug or A&W over Blue Bell Vanilla Bean ice cream would really hit the spot.

As for the diet sodas, no thanks. I prefer real sugar and real fat in my food.

roo_ster · « **Reply #4 on:** June 19, 2007, 05:12:52 PM »

I would like to use my old beer-making equipment to make sodas, root beer being el numero uno on the list.

Homemade root beer with homemade ice cream ~~would~~ should be illegal.

Balog · « **Reply #5 on:** June 19, 2007, 05:24:51 PM »

I'm a big Mug fan. I've tried a lot of the fancy varieties since I started working for a distribution company, but Mug is still my favorite.

cosine · « **Reply #6 on:** June 19, 2007, 05:59:50 PM »

Root beer. Yum.

K Frame · « **Reply #7 on:** June 19, 2007, 06:02:36 PM »

Root beer?

No.

Never cared much for it.

MechAg94 · « **Reply #8 on:** June 19, 2007, 06:34:03 PM »

A guy at work was selling cases of 20 oz bottles to raise money for his daughter's team to go to a state softball tournament. I have most of a case of Barq's left still.

Ben · « **Reply #9 on:** June 19, 2007, 06:50:45 PM »

I love root beer. An ex-coworker who used to fly to Seattle weekly always brought me back various micro-brewed root beer from there. You Seattle guys sure are lucky, and I sure miss my old coworker.

RocketMan · « **Reply #10 on:** June 19, 2007, 07:07:18 PM »

I never could find root beer in Japan. Coke, Pepsi, 7-Up, no problem. No root beer.
My Japanese friends told me it was because root beer tastes too much like medicine to them. I could never get them to try it when they were in the US, either.

Sindawe · « **Reply #11 on:** June 19, 2007, 07:29:25 PM »

Not really into sweet no EtOH drinks anymore. But this thread does bring to mind a conversation about the stuff I heard once.

Quark: "I want you to try something for me. Take a sip of this."
Garak: "What is it?"
Quark: "A Human drink, it's called Root Beer."
Garak: "Ahh, I don't know....."
Quark: "Come on....Aren't you in the least bit curious?"
Quark: "..........What d'you think?"
Garak: "It's vile!"
Quark: "I know. It's so bubbly and cloy, and happy."
Garak: "Just like the Federation....."
Quark: "But do you know what's really frightening? If you drink enough of it you begin to like it...."
Garak: "....It's insidious...."
Quark: "....Just like the Federation."

RadioFreeSeaLab · « **Reply #12 on:** June 19, 2007, 07:47:51 PM »

Love root beer.

Ned Hamford · « **Reply #13 on:** June 19, 2007, 11:44:11 PM »

Rootbeer and whiskey, they just go together so well. I wish more bars could provide the combo.

Manedwolf · « **Reply #14 on:** June 20, 2007, 04:26:47 AM »

Only if it's made with sugar, not corn syrup.

Boylan's Bottle Works sodas are good in that regard. I can't drink any soda with corn syrup. The sickly, overwhelming oversweetness just makes me feel ill.

And I do prefer GOOD ginger beer to root beer. Mixed with dark rum.

Mabs2 · « **Reply #15 on:** June 20, 2007, 05:03:51 AM »

Meh, I'm starting to like diet sodas. The flavor is more obvious in diet drinks.
Go to the fountain and get mountain dew and I can barely taste it. But get diet mountain dew and, yay!, flavor!

Always wanted to try making me own root beer >:3

client32 · « **Reply #16 on:** June 20, 2007, 06:19:48 AM »

I am starting a quest for a keg of root beer this week. Anyone have any suggestions?

I read somewhere that some liquor stores can do that.

thebaldguy · « **Reply #17 on:** June 20, 2007, 05:53:47 PM »

Quote from: client32 on June 20, 2007, 05:19:48 AM

I am starting a quest for a keg of root beer this week. Anyone have any suggestions?

I read somewhere that some liquor stores can do that.

Check with the manager of your local store. Chances are he can get what you need. I know 1919 Root Beer from Schell's brewery in New Ulm kegs their root beer.

I like root beer a lot. I've been trying different ones lately. IBC and Sprecher make some good ones in both regular and diet. I thought diet Barq's was pretty good too.

Moondoggie · « **Reply #18 on:** June 20, 2007, 06:56:48 PM »

Big root beer fan!

I'll never understand what makes Famous Dave's think one is worth $4.50, when a beer is about $2.

I had a 44 oz Barq's today, free at the fuel stop with my $475 purchase of diesel.

S. Williamson · « **Reply #19 on:** June 20, 2007, 09:17:56 PM »

Barq's, Coit's, Dad's, A&W, IBC, birch beer...

I think I like IBC best, since it still comes in glass bottles.

Laurent du Var · « **Reply #20 on:** June 21, 2007, 02:48:56 AM »

what is root beer ?
I never heard of it.
Beer made from roots ?
I'll be off to Wikipedia....

The Rabbi · « **Reply #21 on:** June 21, 2007, 03:22:43 AM »

Sometimes called sarsparilla.
Goes great with tete de veaux.....

K Frame · « **Reply #22 on:** June 21, 2007, 05:57:24 AM »

I MUCH prefer birch beer.

Nothing like a couple of scoops of homemade vanilla ice cream in a big glass of birch beer on a hot summer evening.

Mabs2 · « **Reply #23 on:** June 21, 2007, 06:56:15 AM »

Quote from: Laurent du Var on June 21, 2007, 01:48:56 AM

what is root beer ?
I never heard of it.
Beer made from roots ?
I'll be off to Wikipedia....

K Frame · « **Reply #24 on:** June 21, 2007, 07:23:21 AM »

He's French, MBS.

I sincerely doubt that much root beer makes it to France.

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Author Topic: Anyone else feeling an uncontrolled need for root beer lately? (Read 6258 times)

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