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General => Everything Else => Topic started by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on January 10, 2006, 10:49:58 AM
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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.
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A&W!
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I've already mocked you.
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I don't like root beer. I think it tastes like it's already gone bad.
Let the mocking begin.
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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...
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dad's. Or Hires.
I wish I knew of a place around here that carries them.
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I JUST finished an A & W Root Beer Float, right before I found this thread.
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Whatever it came in originally, pour it into a glass mug that's been in the freezer for a while. Scrum-diddely-umptious!
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Just grab a pint of proper British beer people. Honestly, drinking beer thats non-alcholic? Whats the point in that? :P
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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?
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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. ;D
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.
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Name what gemm? British beers or British root beers? I don't know the latter and the former tends to vary depending on what part of the country your in. It's quite regional I believe.
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Name them both for me, for the fortnight goes on!
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Virgil's was apparently a British brew originally.
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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.
That stuff is so good! I love it.
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virgils was a british brew hence the hideously expensive price per bottle.
And its no Dominion.
Dominion is hands down the best rootbeer in the world.
Still this recipe sounds neat.
Virgil's Prawn Tempura with Spicy Chinese Cabbage & Mandarin Dipping Sauce
Mark Ernst, first prize winner in Virgil's Cooking Contest, submitted this exotic blend of citrus fruits and root beer.
Prawn Tempura
12 oz. Shrimp 16-20 ct.
8 oz. Self-rising flour
2 oz. Corn starch
1 oz. Baking powder
3+ oz. Virgil's Root Beer (ice cold)
Peel and devein shrimp, leaving tail segment on. Dry and keep cold. Sift dry ingredients together. Heat 2 quart of vegetable oil to 375 F in a large, heavy gauge pot. Just before serving, place shrimp in bowl with dry ingredients. Add ice cold Virgil's quickly in small amounts. Mix well until an even coating consistency is achieved. Drop into hot oil by tail segment. Fry until puffy and golden. Remove from oil and drain on paper towel. Reserve in warm oven until needed in recipe.
Spicy Chinese Cabbage
1 head Chinese (Napa) cabbage
1/2 Dried Szechwan chili pepper, seeded and chopped
1/2 Tbsp. Ginger, julienne cut.
1/2 Tbsp. Garlic, julienne cut.
2 Tbsp. Peanut Oil
1/2 Lime, juice
1/2 Tsp. Sesame Oil
1/2 Tsp. Soy Sauce
1 Tsp. Cilantro, chopped
T.T. Sugar
T.T. Salt
In a wok or medium skillet, heat peanut oil until smoking. Add chili, ginger and garlic. Fry until aroma develops. Add cabbage and toss. Cook until tender, but still firm. Add lime juice, sesame oil, soy sauce and cilantro. Season with sugar and salt.
Mandarin Dipping Sauce
16 oz. Virgil's Root Beer
4 Mandarin oranges
2 Tbsp. Sesame seeds, toasted.
1 Tbsp. Sugar
Peel the zest from Mandarins, julienne and blanch in boiling water for 10 seconds. Simmer root beer, blanched zest and juice of two oranges until reduced by half. Add 1 Tbsp. sesame seeds. Sauce should have a light syrupy consistency. Segment and reserve remaining two mandarins, and sesame seeds.
Assemble dish by mounding cabbage in center of warm plate. Spoon sauce around cabbage. Place three shrimp with tails up on bed of cabbage. Garnish with mandarins and sprinkle with toasted sesame seeds.
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it seems only americans like rootbeer. Everywhere else i have been people think it tastes like medicine. If that is the case, why can't i buy some medicine that tastes like rootbeer? Guess i am importing my drugs from Europe.
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Some countries' medicine tastes *gasp* like root beer. If you grew up there, you'd hate it too...or I guess you'd go on medicine-guzzling binges...
I hate all carbonated beverages, so there.
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I have to go with Jeffe on this one and call bullcrap on the root beer tastes like medicine. I've had european candy. You guys *do* realize candy is supposed to be *sweet* right?