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View Poll Results: What's your favorite Root Beer?

A+W

89 32.84%

Hires

4 1.48%

IBC

82 30.26%

MUG

21 7.75%

Stewerts

20 7.38%

Store Brand

0 0%

Home Brew

4 1.48%

Other

51 18.82%

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12-30-2009 , 01:55 AM

#51

Wrane

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Pretty sure an A&W root beer float is the only way to go.

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12-30-2009 , 02:03 AM

#52

nutsflopper

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When I drank soda, all I'd drink was Barqs :/ I thought it was a little better than the others besides the expensive ones in glass bottles.

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12-30-2009 , 02:29 AM

#53

MicroBob

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Originally Posted by Taso

By the way, as anyone from Michigan surely knows, the best ginger ale is Vernor's.

Vernor's was an acquired taste for me. Didn't like it when I was a kid and then grew to like it more than Canada Dry eventually (which is kind of the standard). But now I don't see it around anymore.

We had Vernor's Ginger Ale in the Cincinnati area when I was growing up. Not sure how wide a region that one is distributed.

When I was in Quebec they had something kind of similar called Spruce Ale. It was weird and at first the taste made me go "WTF?" but it grew on me after a few sips.

Another somewhat interesting drink is Inca Cola from Peru which isn't a cola at all. Tastes kind of like a cross between Cream Soda and Ginger Ale I think.

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12-30-2009 , 02:34 AM

#54

dlk9s

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Originally Posted by MicroBob

Barq's fan here. Drank A&W back in the day and also Dad's root beer but grew out of those brands when I was like 12 I think. Am I the only one who remembers Dad's.

I always liked Dad's. My parents still pick up various Dad's sodas sometimes (it's been a few years since I've seen it, so for all I know, it's not even made anymore).

Sprecher, as I posted earlier, is still the best, though.

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12-30-2009 , 02:41 AM

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12-30-2009 , 02:41 AM

#56

TheGunslinger

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Had Sioux City for the first time today, as a matter of fact, and it was REALLY good.

Mug is absolutely the worst dregs ever.

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12-30-2009 , 04:50 AM

#57

MrOnizuka

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I always thought Dad's Old Fashioned was the ugliest looking can ever. Was still pretty good though.

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12-30-2009 , 06:27 AM

#58

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Anyone ever get a "sour" batch of IBC? I'd been buying the glass-bottled six packs at Wal-Mart, and they were great, but then I got a "sour" batch that tasted like IBC mixed with cream soda (or something weird like that). I thought it was just a bad batch or something, but I bought 4-5 more cases spread out over the course of three months, and they all had the same "sour" taste, so I just kinda gave up on root beer for awhile.

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12-30-2009 , 09:38 AM

#59

Quadstriker

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A&W is my fav out of the stuff that's available everywhere.

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12-30-2009 , 12:40 PM

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I vi ii V7

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I think the bigger question is whether you say root as in shoot or root as in put.

+1 for root (shoot) beer

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12-30-2009 , 01:27 PM

#61

jthegreat

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Originally Posted by I vi ii V7

I think the bigger question is whether you say root as in shoot or root as in put.

+1 for root (shoot) beer

How is this even a question?

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12-30-2009 , 01:48 PM

#62

175503

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obviously rut

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12-30-2009 , 01:57 PM

#63

Tony_P

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Mug is nasty. Dad's and Barq's are good. I dunno if I've ever had A&W, since whenever A&W products were available I'd go for the Cream Soda.

The best I ever had was a bottle of homemade bought from a farm stand in PA.

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12-30-2009 , 02:21 PM

#64

AquaSwing

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IBC probably because that's what I grew up with.

Fitz's Root Beer is made locally here an everyone loves it. I think it tastes like ****.

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12-30-2009 , 02:50 PM

#65

Paul B.

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I didn't like root beer until I tried the root beer on draft at an actual A&W location.

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12-30-2009 , 05:06 PM

#66

TwoNitty

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Out of the national brands, IBC is solid.

Sprecher rules. Their Cream Soda is amazing as well.

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12-30-2009 , 05:24 PM

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AKSpartan

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Originally Posted by I vi ii V7

I think the bigger question is whether you say root as in shoot or root as in put.

+1 for root (shoot) beer

Rut beer? Wat

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12-30-2009 , 05:29 PM

#68

pifhluk

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+1 for Sprecher, its in its own class of root beer.

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12-30-2009 , 05:35 PM

#69

bonds

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Dog n' Suds

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12-30-2009 , 05:46 PM

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hyde

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Originally Posted by istewart

Still have Hires in some places in Maine AFAIK.

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Originally Posted by sofocused978

orly what part of Maine did you see it?

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Originally Posted by istewart

Kennebunk, Ogunquit, South Portland.

I have a courier that lives near here and travels to MA often. Might be willing to smuggle some over state lines for the right price.

I voted A&W because I grew up near one of the last A&W drive in's, excellent Root Beer and fried clams at the "buddy's girlfriend works there" price.
They closed. I moved on to cream soda.