Something like this.
Just yanking your chain a little. It does read like the type of thing that they love to jump on though.
Root Beer
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Something like this.
Just yanking your chain a little. It does read like the type of thing that they love to jump on though.
Nope. I've never done it, but it is only supposed to take a couple of days. Remember you want carbonated root beer, not fermented root beer.
I love Root Beer but for health reasons I can only drink diet, My two favorite diet root beers would be A&W and Stewart's.
OldSaw
The wife's investment
Title Town Brewery, just down the block from me. 
I probably haven't drunk root beer in almost 20 years. I think it is almost an acquired taste and always seem to find root beer in oriental grocery stores for some reason and never in supermarkets or traditional delis.
IBC is the only soda that my grandparents allowed in their house. Reminds me of summers in Louisiana cutting the grass in 100 degree weather, and walking into the air conditioned house with an IBC waiting for me...
Saint Arnolds is a Houston micro-brewery. They make a root beer that is just amazing. It is better than 99% of the other root beer brands I've tried and has real cane sugar in it.
Anything with real cane sugar is amazing. Have you tried Jone's line of sodas? They're great.
Personally, I like Hires root beer, inside the resturant. After that A&W. And, after that Ramblin Root Beer. I don't think they really make that any more though.
I grew up in the Chicagoland area on Dogs N Suds rootbeer, but over a decade ago all of the Dogs N Suds driveins disappeared. Fortunately a band member found a distributor in Broadview that sells it in 1 liter bottles. Man I will tell you nothing like pouring a cold Dogs N Suds rootbeer over some vanilla bean ice cream...
I've never had a root beer so smooth and creamy as A&W draft at the restaurant. My friends and I would go just for the root beer. Unfortunately the local A&W was washed away by the record flooding here last summer. The owner is looking to see if the neighborhood returns before deciding whether to reopen or not. 
Pictures of the flood
The A&W
Pictures of the flood
The A&W
I had some great rootbeer in Idaho Springs, Colorado this past summer. Tommyknockers is the brand. We went to the brewery/resturant. Great stuff.
DL
DL
World Market had a very nice selection of Root Beer, including a tasty one in a mini-keg. Unfortunately, all the World Market stores around here have closed. I believe they're all gone now.
People either love the root beer or hate it. There is no middle. I can't even smell the root beer. It closely reassembles a smell of... hmmm, if you know a smell of a dark-blue Vicks 'over the counter' medical cream sold in small glass jars. That's it; Vicks.
I am a big root beer fan my favs would have to be saranac root beer, there is a restaurant in NY called tom whals that make there own its amazing, Jones soda root beer and then A&W is good also walmarts brand Samsclub root beer is good
Arf 'n Barf!!
I haven't even THOUGHT about Dog 'n Suds for a couple decades! That was some root beer, for sure. (And a great place to rip off mugs...
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OldSaw
The wife's investment
Arf 'n Barf!!
That is an old one. I don't think we ever had one here in Green Bay. We had to go clean down to Fond Du Lac to find one.
Unfortunately we don't have much of a selection around here. This is pretty much it:
Henry Weinhard... it's OK, too bad it's made with HFCS.
Thomas Kemper.... made with cane sugar. Good flavor, but lacks bite.
Virgil's.... Also made with unbleached cane sugar. It's tasty and has more bite than TK.
Henry Weinhard... it's OK, too bad it's made with HFCS.
Thomas Kemper.... made with cane sugar. Good flavor, but lacks bite.
Virgil's.... Also made with unbleached cane sugar. It's tasty and has more bite than TK.
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