# Root Beer **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 6, 2000, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/root-beer/17171 "2000-01-06T10:46:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MrsTime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@MrsTime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrsTime)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/root-beer/17171/42 "2014-09-06T21:31:40Z")
I must be a heathen, I hate root beer. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/root-beer/17171/43 "2014-09-06T21:52:30Z")
A couple years ago introduced root beer to a couple of guests from New Zealand. They hated it, called it rude and nasty. Last year my wife and I went to New Zealand. We were introduced to a local soft drink they like called L&P. It has to be one of the nastiest things I have ever tasted. I’ll take a Thomas Kemper root beer please. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/root-beer/17171/44 "2014-09-06T22:10:28Z")
zombie or no Pink bead - A&W ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/root-beer/17171/45 "2014-09-06T23:16:55Z")
My boyfriend’s son swears by Crater Lake Root Beer. He feels it’s the best you can buy around here. I found it at Albertsons. [http://www.craterlakesoda.com/our\_sodas/index.php](http://www.craterlakesoda.com/our_sodas/index.php) ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/root-beer/17171/46 "2014-09-06T23:25:29Z")
When in Milwaukee I always stop at [Sprecher’s](http://www.sprecherbrewery.com/soda.php) Other than that, A&W. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/root-beer/17171/47 "2014-09-06T23:29:26Z")
Birch beer has been mentioned in this thread. For the curious (and of the right age), it tastes just like Teaberry gum. It does to me, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/root-beer/17171/48 "2014-09-06T23:42:27Z")
If Sprecher’s isn’t one of the choices, it’s not worth voting. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/root-beer/17171/49 "2014-09-07T00:25:12Z")
I hate root beer. My first ‘real job’ was at A&W (I had other jobs, like working at a guide for horseback trail rides). ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/root-beer/17171/50 "2014-09-07T01:02:57Z")
When I was a kid we used to make root beer, using a bottled extract (Hires, I think), water, & yeast. Brew it in a big tub, bottle it in old soda bottles, cap 'em with a capper, put them in the cellar for a couple of weeks, clean up the bottles that exploded, and enjoy! This would have been late '50s early 60s. Anyone else ever do this? ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/root-beer/17171/51 "2014-09-07T02:03:32Z")
Barqs! and a pox to anyone who says otherwise! ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/root-beer/17171/52 "2014-09-07T04:20:10Z")
A&W root beer from a restaurant and not from a bottle or can is probably the best. Ice cold from the keg in those big mugs… ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2014, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/root-beer/17171/53 "2014-09-07T04:59:31Z")
Since this topic is 14 years old, I’m going to close it. Feel free to make a new one in CS, if you want, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/root-beer/17171.md?page=2)