# Your Favorite Root Beer **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** soda-softdrinks\ **Created:** [March 17, 2014, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-root-beer/683938 "2014-03-17T19:21:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-root-beer/683938/21 "2014-03-17T21:20:49Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Sprecher is a little brewery near Milwaukee. For some reason Menards (a regional big box home improvement store) carries their soda and I can get it in Minnesota. > There’s an awesome Root Beer shop in Duluth MN and they have on-line ordering where you can get both Sprecher and Boylans as well as a ton of others. > [Fizzy Waters](http://fizzywatersofduluth.com/sodafountain?title=Root%20Beer&items_per_page=12) Awesome! I so glad to know I am not the only root beer lover here 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-root-beer/683938/22 "2014-03-17T21:22:41Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > That site in **Hampshire** ’s post also reminded me that I also liked Dad’s, but apparently you can only get it in diet from that site. I remember Dad’s Root Beer! I need to research the history. I always equated Dad’s=Hires for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-root-beer/683938/23 "2014-03-17T21:24:43Z")
I noticed you can also get Bubble Up from the Dad’s site. The prices look reasonable until you add in the shipping. It was $18.75 for tax and shipping to my house for the 15 1-liter bottles. I didn’t try the cans. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-root-beer/683938/24 "2014-03-17T21:27:00Z")
Root beer is the only soft drink I’ll order, and only in the bottle. Boylan’s is common here in Oregon. Several brew pubs in Anchorage made their own root beer, which was excellent. In the 60s, we used to go to the A&W, which was the only national chain in Anchorage at the time; we’d buy a quart of root beer each, which came in that cone-shaped container and was poured out of a larger storage container so it was frothy and cold. Good stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-root-beer/683938/25 "2014-03-17T21:28:55Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > I noticed you can also get Bubble Up from the Dad’s site. The prices look reasonable until you add in the shipping. It was $18.75 for tax and shipping to my house for the 15 1-liter bottles. I didn’t try the cans. I noticed that also. I remember Bubble-Up in 12 oz bottles back in my youth. It was the cheaper choice to 7-Up bottles back then. (Showing my age here, lol). ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-root-beer/683938/26 "2014-03-17T21:34:36Z")
I learned to really like the root beer from the Rogue Brewing company in Oregon. Unfortunately I can’t get it since I moved to the East coast. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-root-beer/683938/27 "2014-03-17T21:36:27Z")
Dad’s Old Fashioned, or Frostie, in long-neck glass bottles. ---
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-root-beer/683938/28 "2014-03-17T21:36:45Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Root beer is the only soft drink I’ll order, and only in the bottle. Boylan’s is common here in Oregon. Several brew pubs in Anchorage made their own root beer, which was excellent. > > In the 60s, we used to go to the A&W, which was the only national chain in Anchorage at the time; we’d buy a quart of root beer each, which came in that cone-shaped container and was poured out of a larger storage container so it was frothy and cold. Good stuff. I will have to check out Boylan’s root beer. I have noticed a few regional root beer breweries here since I moved back to the Great Lakes area. There is a shop here downtown that carries them, but alas my Monday Memory is lacking. I will check it out tomorrow. Keep the brands coming. As they said to me in Texas: “wanna coke?” “sure” “what kinda coke you want?” “a root beer” ---
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-root-beer/683938/29 "2014-03-17T21:38:58Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Dad’s Old Fashioned, or Frostie, in long-neck glass bottles. Oh yes. Long-necks? Awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-root-beer/683938/30 "2014-03-17T21:43:03Z")
> [@Deeg](#): > > I learned to really like the root beer from the Rogue Brewing company in Oregon. Unfortunately I can’t get it since I moved to the East coast. Which gets me to thinking… A lot (small sample-size on my end) of craft brewers also brew root beer. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-root-beer/683938/31 "2014-03-17T22:51:25Z")
> [@Cabin\_Fever](#): > > I will have to check out Boylan’s root beer. I have noticed a few regional root beer breweries here since I moved back to the Great Lakes area. There is a shop here downtown that carries them, but alas my Monday Memory is lacking. I will check it out tomorrow. Keep the brands coming. > > As they said to me in Texas: > “wanna coke?” > “sure” > “what kinda coke you want?” > “a root beer” My brother does that. We were off on a fishing trip when I was a kid and he stopped at the local market. “Go in and get us a sixpack of cokes.” I came back with a sixpack of Cokes. “How come you only got Coke?” Me: 😕 “Your said to get Cokes.” “Yeah, but different kinds!” 😕😕 ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-root-beer/683938/32 "2014-03-17T22:57:28Z")
> [@Cabin\_Fever](#): > > I remember Hire’s from way back when. Sadly they seem to have been “assimilated” with others. I remember them too. My grandfather used to make his own root beer for us kids using Hires extract (still have a bottle of extract somewhere). Best root beer ever - but gramps always made a second batch for himself and we could never drink from that batch. That _might_ have been better 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-root-beer/683938/33 "2014-03-17T23:02:34Z")
Henry Weinhart’s root beer. Most root beers are too sweet and cola-ish for me but this one I like. It’s stupid expensive though. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-root-beer/683938/34 "2014-03-17T23:11:25Z")
Another vote for authentic, car-window A&W. I remember dad taking some home in a big glass jug when we were good\* \*didn’t get it very often 🙂 mmm ---
**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:** [March 17, 2014, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-root-beer/683938/35 "2014-03-17T23:27:30Z")
Barqs! Barqs for the win! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-root-beer/683938/36 "2014-03-18T00:09:39Z")
IBC, ice cold. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-root-beer/683938/37 "2014-03-18T00:30:52Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > My favorite root beer is only available via time machine, and could only be found in a tall frosted mug at the corner A&W, accompanied by a Teen Burger. Middlebury, Vermont has a still-functioning A&W drive in, with frosted mugs, Teen Burgers, and car hops on skates. The only concession to the changing times is that the skates are in-lines. I was last there about three years ago. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-root-beer/683938/38 "2014-03-18T00:43:23Z")
I had Boylan’s birch beer a couple of summers ago-it’s even better than their root beer. [Available at Amazon, too](http://www.amazon.com/Boylans-Original-Birch-Beer-12pack/dp/B0001BV0LG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395103342&sr=8-1&keywords=boylan%27s+birch+beer). ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-root-beer/683938/39 "2014-03-18T00:51:21Z")
> [@Cabin\_Fever](#): > > I noticed that also. I remember Bubble-Up in 12 oz bottles back in my youth. It was the cheaper choice to 7-Up bottles back then. (Showing my age here, lol). You can get Bubble-Up in a couple of grocery stores here in Olympia. Usually it’s in a cooler or a section of its own with a bunch of other “old-timey” soft drinks like Triple Cola, XXX Root Beer, Lemmy lemonade, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-root-beer/683938/40 "2014-03-18T01:41:24Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Barqs! > > Barqs for the win! One website gave this good marks. The HuffPo taste test had A&W at number one, with Boylan’s second. Tastes vary from test to test, with nobody a clear winner. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-root-beer/683938.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-root-beer/683938.md?page=3)