Root Beer

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

So I've got this new brand of root beer I tried for the first time yesterday. Virgil's
It has some very strange herbs for a root beer. It tastes something like a cross between Boylan's birch beer and a strong herbal tea. I think I'll be buying it again, though it's no Dominion.

Now, if you mention a root beer on this thread that comes in a plastic bottle, I will mock you.

[Fellfrosch]

A&W!

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I've already mocked you.

[MsFish]

I don't like root beer.   I think it tastes like it's already gone bad.  

Let the mocking begin.  

[GorgonlaVacaTremendo]

I've hosted a few foriegn exchange students from Spain over the years, and all of them have disliked root beer.  When I asked Alejandro, one of them, why, he replied, "This drink tastes like the oil."  When I inquired further in spanish, I found out he meant that he thought it tasted like motor oil.  Apparently this is a pretty common consensus aomng spaniards, who don't drink root beer or Dr. Pepper (which they dislike because they think it tastes like medicine, which it kinda does).

Naturally I had to take his coke and replace it with a root beer a day later.  Totally worth the spanish cursing that ensued...

[Tink]

I personally don't understand it. I've been told by Australians that root beer is gross as well. I realize that they haven't grown up with it, and so are not used to the taste, but it's not like everything we don't grow up with we hate when we try. All I know is it's my soda of choice and I think it tastes divine. (Although I once tried the root beer at Brick Oven and I thought it tasted like root beer candies and I didn't like it. It's the only root beer I've tried that I didn't like.) Yummy root beer.

And e can tease me if he likes because although I love root beer, I usually drink the cheap stuff because I'm cheap so I can't contribute to the discussion of good root beer that come in glass bottles. Sorry. (It's not that I've never had glass-bottled root beer, just not much or often.)

[Fellfrosch]

Most MExicans that I've met hate Root Beer as well, for the same reason that "it tastes like medicine." Once I introduced them to root beer floats, however, that opinion usually changed quite quickly.

And as for the debate of glass vs. plastic, well, I think that's a silly and pretentious place to draw the line of quality. It's like people who say indie movies are inherently better than Hollywood movies--just because the manufacturing process is different, or smaller, doesn't make the product inherently better.

[House of Mustard]

The best root beer (Stewarts) comes in glass, though I don't know if I'd put the compliment on the container or the recipe (however, I love drinking from a cold glass bottle -- so much better than plastic).

A&W is the best plastic bottle brew.  Barq's is okay, but too much of a bite.  Mug is like drinking straight corn syrup.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

It may be pretentious but it's not silly.

A&W is the only remotely good root beer that comes in a plastic bottle. There are only one or two brands I can name that aren't better than A&W that also come in a glass bottle.

It's not a predisposition toward glass, it's the statistical chance of getting a decent root beer.

[Oldie Black Witch]

Dad's. Or Hires.

I wish I knew of a place around here that carries them.

[Archon]

I JUST finished an A & W Root Beer Float, right before I found this thread.

[Harbinger]

Whatever it came in originally, pour it into a glass mug that's been in the freezer for a while. Scrum-diddely-umptious!

[Entsuropi]

Just grab a pint of proper British beer people. Honestly, drinking beer thats non-alcholic? Whats the point in that?

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

I do enjoy the Barq's, lots of bite and full of vigor and spit and vinegar. Never had British brews though. Could you name a few so I might pick some up at the local market Ent?

[Spriggan]

It's easy to pick out the British brews, they're the ones that look like dirty dishwater.  The more chunks floating in them the better.  

In all seriousness the only British brew I know of is one that's a very "thick" brew for lack of a better word, it's very dark and isn't opaque.