Comments on: Root Beer Journal I: Dad’s Old Fashioned® Root Beer

By: the facebook guy

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By: goodbloomgirl

goodbloomgirl — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 19:12:45 +0000

Try Virgil’s Root beer. It’s micro-brewed and contains no HFCS or sodium benzoate

By: Scott Banbury

Scott Banbury — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:13:29 +0000

I don’t believe anyone makes REAL root beer anymore, at least not from sassafras extract, which, BTW, is the precursor for MDMA.

By: Benito

Benito — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:58:53 +0000

This is great–I was a root beer fanatic as a kid but it’s been a few years since I’ve had any. I remember some arguments with friends when I was little. It was never a Coke vs. Pepsi thing for us, as Pepsi was the beverage of communists, devil worshipers, and Yankees. Instead, there were a handful of big brands around that were just different enough to cause disagreement.

Barq’s was my favorite, because it was sort of peppery and spicy. A&W was often the least favorite, maybe because we didn’t have any of the restaurants around here. Mug was sort of in the middle. No one ever argued for IBC based on flavor, but the dark bottle actually made it look like you were drinking a real beer. (And years later in high school, a friend got pulled over and hassled by the cops for drinking an IBC while driving.)

Have you ever had birch beer? It’s pretty rare in this part of the country but it’s wonderful.