[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Tier 1 Root Beer (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 4/26/2015 10:58:19 AM EDT
Right now, I'm enjoying a nice rootbeer float. Just using cheap A&W, but regardless it prompted me to make a thread about rootbeer.  What is your favorite rootbeer? I think Henry Weinhard and Jones are pretty good. But I'd love to hear other opinions. |
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Quoted: Yep, A&W!I love making A&W Rootbeer Floats!!!!  http://m2.i.pbase.com/o4/72/325172/1/149180972.w4H079XJ.AWfloat.jpg  I need a big glass mug like that for mine! |
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http://www.readingdraft.com/menu.html
screw your mass produced root beer this is the shit. you can thank me later. |
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Haven't looked, IS there any such root beer? Quoted:
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Anything made with actual cane sugar rather than corn syrup. Haven't looked, IS there any such root beer? http://www.readingdraft.com/menu.html |
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Dang! Root Beer. Even sold at the Midwest Industries showroom...
ETA: http://www.imperialflavors.com/products/dang-that-s-good |
 Abita Root Beer is made with a hot mix process using spring water, herbs, vanilla and yucca (which creates foam). Unlike most soft drink manufacturers, Abita sweetens its root beer with pure Louisiana cane sugar. The resulting taste is reminiscent of soft drinks made in the 1940s and 1950s, before bottlers turned to corn sugar and fructose. |
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Take an empty one or two liter soda bottle, rinse it out with bleach solution, let that dry and gas off.
Mix Zatarains rootbeer extract, water, sugar, and champagne yeast per the bottle instructions or some rough approximation thereof. Put bottles on top of the fridge to fulminate until they are so firm you wonder whether they're quite safe. Place in fridge. When cold, drink. Best if you kill the bottle in one sitting, they go flat pretty quick, but it's damn good. There are other brands of extract out there but I prefer the old timey zatarains. |
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http://www.readingdraft.com/menu.html screw your mass produced root beer this is the shit. you can thank me later. Winner |
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Boylan's Creamy Red Birch Beer is my favorite.
I used to enjoy Snapple's clear "Tru Root Beer" but that hasn't been made for a while now. ETA Stewart's is OK but I don't feel it is significantly better than anything else -- certainly miss the Stewart's hot dog stands, though. |
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Quoted: Take an empty one or two liter soda bottle, rinse it out with bleach solution, let that dry and gas off. Mix Zatarains rootbeer extract, water, sugar, and champagne yeast per the bottle instructions or some rough approximation thereof. Put bottles on top of the fridge to fulminate until they are so firm you wonder whether they're quite safe. Place in fridge. When cold, drink. Best if you kill the bottle in one sitting, they go flat pretty quick, but it's damn good. There are other brands of extract out there but I prefer the old timey zatarains. |
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Quoted: IBC Hires Stewarts ...in no particular order. IF!!! you are old enough to remember, the all time leader is MOXIE. So strong, you almost needed a prescription. A man's root beer. Consumed volumes as a kid in the 50's and 60's. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003VWP0VS/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_2?pf_rd_p=1944687702&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B001684NNU&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0Z1G7430TBP0F1VWKKJ1 |
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Quoted: Just a question for the guys who know alot about the 19th century, in the old west. Didn't they drink sarsaparilla back then? and is Root beer actually another name for sarsaparilla? Sarsaparilla and root beer are made from the roots of native North American plants. Both originated as tonics and were highly prized for their medicinal value. Sarsaparilla is made from the sarsaparilla vine, while root beer was originally made from the roots of the sassafras tree. Modern root beers do not contain sassafras because of potential health risks of the plant. |