What's you're favorite ROOT BEER?

[RetroLounge]

I vote Sprecher, made in Milwaukee...

http://www.sprecherbrewery.com/sprsoda.html#rootbeer



RL

[HEyHEY]

1. I honeslt yhave to say - A&W

With Dad's a close second - do they have dad's down there?

[moof]

23. another A&W rooter here

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

2. IBC

[rwheeler31]

6. Braqus

nt

[solinvictus]

3. IBC from Texas

They make great root beer. Barq's was really good too until Coca Cola took them over.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

30. Speaking of Barq's....

I got some twelve packs recently when the local store put them on sale: five twelve packs for $10.

The aspartame-sweetened variety is waaaay too sweet, like cherry cola. The real sugar-sweetened variety is also more like cherry cola than root beer.

[Guy Fawkes]

4. Sprecher or Gray's... (Gray's is made a few blocks from my house!)

[bucknaked]

5. Has to be A&W... I feel like I've eaten a 5 lb roast after slamming one!

[xray s]

7. Old Smoothie

yum :)

[boobooday]

8. We have "Dog 'N Suds" here -- anyone ever try that?

Hubby says it's too sweet -- I'm a diabetic so I only drink the diet kind, and they have a good one.

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

14. I didnt know Dog n Suds was still around

It was a popular chain in Chicagoland in the 60s....

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

9. IBC....actually its pretty good. I used to like Dads.

but that was years and years ago, when Dads was still local in Chicago.

IBC nowadays is the best store-bought root beer for me. It has more flavor..not "root beer flavored sugar water".

[thebaghwan]

10. Home nade!!!

n/t

[Salviati]

11. Sprechers is pretty good...

I'm also a fan of:
Baumeisters

from
Kewaunee Orange Crush Bottling Co.
Kewaunee, WI



and

Thomas Kemper
from
Seattle WA

[Arwennick]

12. Barqs

Still has the original plant in Mississippi.

[Eye and Monkey]

16. Best thing to go with a New Orleans po' boy.

Hands down.

[indigobusiness]

13. IBC

oh, yeah...

[Zomby Woof]

15. Henry Weinhard's

That or Thomas Kemper.

[SmileyBoy]

24. Henry Weinhard's is really good too.

:9

[theoceansnerves]

17. sioux city

sarsaparilla

[Divernan]

18. I always have some antique A&W glass mugs in my freezer

Drinking it out of them takes me right back to hot summer nights at the old root beer stand - 1959!

[SmileyBoy]

21. They'll still give you a frosty mug at the A&W restaurants.

As long as you're having your root beer at the restaurant, they'll give you a frosty mug.

But I really don't like A&W Root Beer, so I always fill it with Mountain Dew. ;)

[SmileyBoy]

19. 1919 Root Beer

The nectar of the Gods.

[hlthe2b]

20. Among the diet (sugar-free) brands: definitely A&W

since I don't drink sugared drinks, I can only comment on the sugar free...

[SmileyBoy]

22. Try IBC Diet Root Beer.

It's better than A&W's, IMO.

[SmileyBoy]

25. Challenge Root Beer.

It's only available at the Minnesota State Fair.

It's a really sweet drink, and it has a maple flavour to it. And you need to have it with ice to truly experience it. If you're ever at The Great Minnesota Get-Together, go to the booth that will give it to you with ice, not the one that doesn't have any.

[Angelus]

26. Souix City Root Beer is the best!

Best. Root. Beer. Ever.

I also love Sioux City Sasparilla! Great stuff!

[CO Liberal]

27. Shop-Rite Root Beer

Drank it all the time when I was a kid in NJ. Only 9 cents a can back then....

[nostamj]

28. A&W... BUT, that was 30 years ago

at Savin Rock in West Haven, CT.

nothing bottled comes remotely close to that memory...

root beer floats... OMG

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

29. Dr. Brown's is good today, though I prefer their cream soda. Mmmm....

[emulatorloo]

31. Millstream Root Beer, Amana, Iowa

http://www.millstreambrewing.com/

Creamy and delicious. . .rated very highly by Anthony's Root Beer Barrel reviews:

http://www.annoyances.com/rb/