Back in May, my grandma and I decided to do our trip down to Escondido so she can look at clothes at this place called Drapers and Damons, but before we stop at D and D, we stopped at Old Town Root Beer Company, Temecula, to, want to guess....I'll wait.........Sorry, time is up, I am an impatient person, and you're taking too long, to get more root beer. So I purchased some more root beer and a ginger beer. I don't know who is at fault here, but I came home with a ginger beer, that I tried, but decided it was too strong for me, so I poured the rest down the drain, remembering next time to be more careful. So, I came home with five root beers. The first root beer that I drank was called Tommyknocker Original Root Beer and on the label is a miner. But inside the bottle is the taste of a waffle. Seriously, the root beer is made with Tahitian Vanilla Extract and Pure Maple Syrup and you can taste those ingredients in many sips or gulps as you want to take. Very, very, very, good, I'll have to have one with my eggs and potatoes and toast.
On a side note, the owner jokingly offered me a position because I was quite knowledgeable and I was able to share my experiences about the beverages that I consumed. I took him up on the offer, but I live too far away, for the job to be worth it, but it would have been a fun position.
Back to the root beer situation....hmmmmm...oh yes, try Tommyknocker Root Beer, it tastes like breakfast.....Continuing on, the next root beer I tried was Barrel Brothers Root Beer, Creamy Vanilla, but yet vanilla isn't listed in the ingredients, but quillaia extract, along with HF Corn Sweetener; is this similar to the corn syrup? A very good root beer and a very unique label.
Lion Brewery, Brewery Made, Root Beer, Draught Style; a good root beer and it contains quillaia extract, yucca extract and acacia in addition to HF Corn Syrup, carbonated water and caramel color.
Polar Classics Premium Root Beer; a good root beer that contains quillaia extract and citric acid, in addition to the basic formula of carbonated water, cane sugar (or HF Corn Syrup), Natural and Artificial Flavors, caramel color and sodium benzoate.
Lastly is Olde Brooklyn Root Beer, born in Brooklyn, NY and brewed in Williamsburg. Basic root beer ingredients except the water is triple filtered carbonated water ( I guess New Yorkers don't care for their water either :)) and it contains pure cane sugar in addition to the ingredients mentioned in the paragraph above. For more info on Olde Brooklyn go to http://whiterockbeverages.com/OldeBrooklyn.cfm
For the other root beers go to http://www.polarbev.com for Polar Classics Premium Root Beer, http://lionbrewery.com/home/brewery/our-products/soda/lion-brewery/root-beer/ for Lion Brewery Root Beer, http://tommyknocker.com/SODA.html for Tommyknocker Root Beer, and http://www.applebeer.com/ for the Barrel Brothers Root Beer or actually since there's no info on the website on the root beer, read about their apple beer.
Monday, July 23, 2012
It's a marshmallow world, sorry, a root beer float
For my birthday, my dad presented me with a 24 pack of various root beers; it was a great selection and some of the root beers, I have tried before or haven't tried in a while, like a bottled Dad's Root Beer, a Bucking Root Beer, Virgil's Root Beer, and Bulldog Root Beer. If you want information on Dad's Root Beer, go to www.dadsrootbeer.com.
I have tried some of the root beers and some of the root beers were just okay; basic formula and nothing new or different like, wintergreen, cinnamon, quillaia or yucca extract. Some of these root beers were Saranac Root Beer (made with HF Corn Syrup; there is a difference in taste between HF Corn Syrup and Cane Sugar), Dr Brown's Original Root Beer (contains High Fructose Corn Syrup and Gum Acacia) and Americana, which in previous blogs, I said bad things about this root beer, probably because it was up against other root beers that were slightly superior but I am hear to say that this root beer contains pure organic honey, and extracts of licorice and sassafras root bark; now that makes for a good root beer. For information on Saranac and Dr Brown's Original go to http://www.saranac.com/page/root-beer (and they also brew beer) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Brown's and http://jandrbottling.com.
So I continued to drink the root beers given to me from my dad for my birthday and here are the final thoughts:
Red Arrow Root Beer; contains extract of wintergreen and licorice in addition to basic root beer formula; very good and when I went to visit Old Town Root Beer Company, about a month ago, I was told that this one was supposed to very spicy, but that brings me to my next root beer; Sparky's Fresh Draft Root Beer, now this one is one spicy roota beer; as opposed to a spicy me tall ball ("meatball"). It doesn't explain in detail what spices are in this one, but one sip, or two sips, or maybe 4 sips, you can taste the spice. Sparky's also contains honey and imitation flavorings, as opposed to artificial flavorings. I'd get Sparky's again because it was original, unique and different.
Another root beer that I got was Squamscot old fashioned Beverages, a root beer brewed in New Hampshire. This root beer contained citric acid and clove oil; interesting ingredients made for a very good root beer.
Boylan Bottling Co. Cane Sugar Root Beer, a root beer bottle in New Jersey and it contains Yucca Extract, very tasty root beer.
Lastly on this root beer adventure, that took me 4 months, the last root beer was Dog n Suds Drive In Style Root Beer, a very good, basic root beer; appears to go good with hot dogs (Based off the design on the label).
For more information on these final root beers go to http://www.orcabeverage.com/storefront/index.php for Red Arrow, http://www.dognsudsbrand.com/ for Dog n Suds, http://www.boylanbottling.com/products/cane-sugar-sodas/boylan-root-beer/, for the Boylan Bottling Co Root Beer; btw the description for the root beer on their website is kind of annoying because I tasted none of that. I guess I'll have to try this root beer again. http://www.sparkysrootbeer.com/, for Sparky's Root Beer, and http://www.nhsoda.com/Home.asp, for Squamscot Root Beer
I have tried some of the root beers and some of the root beers were just okay; basic formula and nothing new or different like, wintergreen, cinnamon, quillaia or yucca extract. Some of these root beers were Saranac Root Beer (made with HF Corn Syrup; there is a difference in taste between HF Corn Syrup and Cane Sugar), Dr Brown's Original Root Beer (contains High Fructose Corn Syrup and Gum Acacia) and Americana, which in previous blogs, I said bad things about this root beer, probably because it was up against other root beers that were slightly superior but I am hear to say that this root beer contains pure organic honey, and extracts of licorice and sassafras root bark; now that makes for a good root beer. For information on Saranac and Dr Brown's Original go to http://www.saranac.com/page/root-beer (and they also brew beer) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Brown's and http://jandrbottling.com.
So I continued to drink the root beers given to me from my dad for my birthday and here are the final thoughts:
Red Arrow Root Beer; contains extract of wintergreen and licorice in addition to basic root beer formula; very good and when I went to visit Old Town Root Beer Company, about a month ago, I was told that this one was supposed to very spicy, but that brings me to my next root beer; Sparky's Fresh Draft Root Beer, now this one is one spicy roota beer; as opposed to a spicy me tall ball ("meatball"). It doesn't explain in detail what spices are in this one, but one sip, or two sips, or maybe 4 sips, you can taste the spice. Sparky's also contains honey and imitation flavorings, as opposed to artificial flavorings. I'd get Sparky's again because it was original, unique and different.
Another root beer that I got was Squamscot old fashioned Beverages, a root beer brewed in New Hampshire. This root beer contained citric acid and clove oil; interesting ingredients made for a very good root beer.
Boylan Bottling Co. Cane Sugar Root Beer, a root beer bottle in New Jersey and it contains Yucca Extract, very tasty root beer.
Lastly on this root beer adventure, that took me 4 months, the last root beer was Dog n Suds Drive In Style Root Beer, a very good, basic root beer; appears to go good with hot dogs (Based off the design on the label).
For more information on these final root beers go to http://www.orcabeverage.com/storefront/index.php for Red Arrow, http://www.dognsudsbrand.com/ for Dog n Suds, http://www.boylanbottling.com/products/cane-sugar-sodas/boylan-root-beer/, for the Boylan Bottling Co Root Beer; btw the description for the root beer on their website is kind of annoying because I tasted none of that. I guess I'll have to try this root beer again. http://www.sparkysrootbeer.com/, for Sparky's Root Beer, and http://www.nhsoda.com/Home.asp, for Squamscot Root Beer
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