Awesome! I so glad to know I am not the only root beer lover here 
I remember Dad’s Root Beer! I need to research the history. I always equated Dad’s=Hires for some reason.
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.
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 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).
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.
Dad’s Old Fashioned, or Frostie, in long-neck glass bottles.
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”
Oh yes. Long-necks? Awesome.
Which gets me to thinking…
A lot (small sample-size on my end) of craft brewers also brew 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!”
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 
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.
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
Barqs!
Barqs for the win!
IBC, ice cold.
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.
I had Boylan’s birch beer a couple of summers ago-it’s even better than their root beer. Available at Amazon, too.
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.
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.