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
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