Root Beer?

[BikeWriter]

Poll question: Root Beer?

:toast:

[Squatch]

1. Homebrewed root beer.

I make a damned good "hard" alternative to root beer.

[BikeWriter]

5. I've made and bottled barrels of root beer for the kids...

I never did brew any off though. I'm sure it has an interesting flavor. I really should order some yeast and try it. ;-)

[seemunkee]

32. What's your recipe?

I've tried making it from some of the extracts and neve been happy with it. I made some this weekend with a different yeast and hoping for better results.

[BikeWriter]

37. I made it using the recipe on the extract, but...

I used wine yeast. It's always more pleasant tasting than with bread yeast. Bread yeast can even give you stomach distress if used for wine.

[seemunkee]

38. I've used a couple of different ale yeasts and champagne yeast

Trying a more neutral ale yeast this batch.

[BikeWriter]

41. Good, I used a general purpose wine yeast. The kids liked it.

[Radio_Guy]

2. A&W

Out of the can is OK. Fresh out of the tap at an A&W restaurant is the best.

[eyepaddle]

3. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[Radio_Guy]

4. Thanks

I first heard about this site over the weekend, and I love it. But like every other message board on the planet, I have to get my post count up so I can be fully accepted. Thanks for the welcome. :toast:

[BikeWriter]

6. I voted IBC because that's what I'm drinking now...

A&W is good, too!

[NashVegas]

34. Me Too!

Just a few hours later :)

[bigwillq]

13. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[Radio_Guy]

17. Thanks

Thanks for making me feel right at home. :hi:

[KitchenWitch]

7. 1919 Draught Root Beer

[BikeWriter]

8. I looked it up. It sounds as if it's made the old fashioned way!

[KitchenWitch]

10. It is wonderful.

[hyphenate]

9. I really love IBC

but it can be expensive. A&W doesn't appear very often, but of course it's great. The RBs by Pepsi and Coke are really the only ones I see a lot.

[Burma Jones]

11. Rock Bottom Brewery Root Beer

Have to get it at their brewpubs, but it is well worth it.

[Alleycat]

12. Not Root Beer but

does anyone remeber cream soda?? We used to have it all the time when we were kids. I actually found one a few months back and it brought back such memories of sitting on my Grandmother's porch (we called her BaBa) drinking cream soda on a hot summer night.

[Gormy Cuss]

14. Cream soda -- yes.

IBC also makes a decent cream soda. The local bottlers near where I lived as a kid made cream soda without caramel coloring. It was clear. How about the stuff you remember from your grandmother's porch - was it clear or brown colored?

[Alleycat]

25. Clear

I also think is was a local bottler in my area as well.
I think that was the name I just bought IBC. I am not much of a soda drinker but I had to try it!!

[BikeWriter]

30. I like Cream soda, too. It's pleasant but not overwhelming.

[LeftyMom]

15. Virgil's

It's the tastiest stuff ever. :9

[Crazy Dave]

16. Shasta was a family favorite for most of my childhood

:beer:

[Benfea]

18. Rewt beer iz teh ew! -NT

[China_cat]

19. My stepfather's homebrew.

[billyskank]

20. Poor old Robb

:)

[jobycom]

28. Yeah, he's beating several good brews!

[mac56]

21. Henry Weinhard

nm

[democracyindanger]

45. !

[DainBramaged]

22. STEWART's bar none

[rbnyc]

29. yep (nt)

[ET Awful]

23. Hank's Root Beer

http://www.hanks-rootbeer.com/

Now if it was 25 years ago or so, and A&W still had their old fashioned root beer that wasn't pre-packaged, and you could go get a gallon jug of the stuff for .99 (but drink it fast because it'll go completely flat in a few hours), I'd go with A&W.

That was THE place for root beer when I was a little kid. As soon as they went to pre-packaged stuff it lost it's appeal.

[Hugin]

24. *urp*

:thumbsup:

[jobycom]

26. Barq's on the beach on the Mississippi Gulf Coast

It tastes different in Mississippi. I hear it's the water. It was first brewed in Biloxi, so it was formulated using local water. Maybe that's the difference, maybe it's all in my heart, but everyone I've met from the Coast agrees it's better there.

Don't even mention the cans. Just don't.

[NV Whino]

27. A&W

But only on tap. Not the canned stuff.

[Earth_First]

31. Saranac

mmmm...

[Shell Beau]

33. Barq's is a Mississippi product so you know I am going with that, plus

it is yummy!

[ghostsofgiants]

35. Barq's is my lifeblood.

[Guy Fawkes]

36. Schprechers!

[mac56]

39. ooh....forgot about Sprechers!

Mighty fine BEER beer, too.

[petronius]

40. Abita for me,

and IBC a close second...

[Nutmegger]

42. IBC

The only kind I'll use for a float.

[Rowdyboy]

43. There was a "Frostop" rootbeer place in my hometown....I loved

to order a rootbeer and a "butterburger" when I was a kid. Don't know exactly what was special about them, but it probably explains why I have a "butter-belly" today.

[Left Is Write]

44. I just plain love root beer, period.

I usually really like the on-site brewed root beers you can get at some restaurants.

[BikeWriter]

46. I do enjoy it, too. There's something nostalgic about root beer.

[Hugin]

47. I like it super cold in a frosty mug...

Draft preferably!

[BikeWriter]

48. Oh, yeah! Sometimes I crave root beer floats, too. Yummy!

[RebelOne]

49. I worked as an accounts payable clerk for A&W

in Santa Monica, CA, many years ago. We were given all the free root beer we wanted. After a while, I got sort of sick of root beer.

[BikeWriter]

50. You had too much of a good thing, huh? I must admit...

I even got tired of shrimp as a teen when we ran a shrimp boat!