What is your favorite brand of root beer?

[TK421]

I'm guzzling an A&W right now, but I would have to say I like Hires better ( and I think that Barqs stuff is crap ) This is the first time I posted a poll, so pardon me if I screwed it up somehow




Your thoughts?

[KyndCulture]

1. IBC

yumnmmmy

[TK421]

3. THAT'S the one I left out!

:banghead:

[Skittles]

21. ditto on that

am drinking some diet IBC right now - funny how it looks like a beer bottle. :)

[MiniMandaRuth]

2. I love a brand called Dads rootbeer...

It's sold in a blue can and I can never find it... but it's really tasty.

There's also another kind I like. It's sold in a bottle and it's made like the original rootbeer...

[LeftyMom]

4. Virgil's.

It is soooooooooo good. No fake crap in it, either. It's real sugar and natural flavorings from plants.

[fishwax]

12. Virgil's is a really good natural root beer

I used to get that fairly regularly. Good stuff, but I haven't had it in a long time. I think the same people make Reed's Ginger Beer, which is also really good--not the spiciest ginger beer around, but a good enough bite.

[TK421]

15. Is that brand local, or can you get it anywhere?

I'm all for natural ingredients

[sbj405]

22. It's fairly common in natural food stores and some regular grocery stores

http://www.virgils.com/get.shtml

[LeftyMom]

24. A lot of health-food oriented stores have it, plus foodie places

Trader Joes and whole foods have it. If you have Cost Plus World Market, they carry it in bottles and mini-kegs.

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. Culver's

:hi:

[fishwax]

14. I had Culver's for the first time a couple of months ago

First time both for the restaurant and for the root beer. Both food and drink were delicious ...

[Archae]

6. Point.

Or any other brand that uses sugar instead of that %&$#@!!! corn syrup.

[Magrittes Pipe]

27. Yep.

Point is the best.

Sprecher, on the other hand, makes the best ginger ale.

[sakabatou]

7. Depends

Am I gonna drink is staright or mix it with something?

[ChazII]

8. Mug

[jane_pippin]

9. Sprecher!

:thumbsup:

[fishwax]

13. I like Sprecher--they have a good lo-cal root beer too

:)

[bigwillq]

10. I'm a big Mug fan!

:toast: :bounce:

[fishwax]

11. the best is Henry Weinhard's, but, alas, it isn't available where I live

It's made in the Pacific Northwest, and you can get it as far west as Colorado and Wyoming, but no luck in Illinois or Oklahoma, where I used to live. When I was still in OK, I would buy a case or two every time I visited relatives in those states, and savor it over the course of months. I even got several of my co-workers hooked on it, and use to give out bottles of it as Christmas gifts. (On more than one occasion I received a case of it as a Christmas gift myself.)

Oh, it's good stuff. :)

Everywhere I go, I like to try the local/regional microbrew root beers. That's the best one I've ever had. :beer:

[democracyindanger]

18. Yep. Hank's all the way.

And check your local Costco. They carry it.

[fishwax]

19. Hank's I can find here, but no Henry's

:(

[SacredCow]

16. It's a toss-up for me...

Either Frosttop or Abita...

[Nicole]

17. IBC

Good stuff!

[grannylib]

20. I voted A&W mostly for the nostalgia value...in the summer when I was

a kid, and Mom would start washing out the gallon glass jugs, I knew we were going to A&W for supper and would bring home root beer for floats for the next few days.

It's one of my favorite summer memories.

[tibbir]

23. I like A&W too.

[jobycom]

25. Barq's--tastes better in Biloxi, though. Something about the water

perhaps?

[saltpoint]

26. Dog & Suds. Can't say how many of these drive-in restaurants

there are these days, but by god their root beer is fit for Olympus.