I love root beer. Always have. When I was a boy, I drank A&W Root Beer from frosty mugs in my home town. As I have moved around the country, I have made a point of sampling the local brews. In Oregon, I fell in love with Henry Weinhard's, but in Wisconsin, I drink mostly Sprecher.
This weekend, for the first time, I tasted a root beer from Boylan Bottleworks in New Jersey. Unlike Henry Weinhard's and Sprecher, Boylan didn't make Luke Cole's list of Ten Best Root Beers in America for 2004, but it's excellent root beer in a cool bottle. It doesn't displace Henry Weinhard's as my favorite, but Henry Weinhard's is hard to find here in the Midwest, and Boylan's is a nice substitute.
The #1 root beer on Cole's list is Gale's, made in Chicago. If I can't find Gale's in Madison, I will be in Chicago on December 8. Gives me something to do there ...
Other root beer reviews are located here and here. Henry Weinhard's fares well on the first link, but not as well on the second. Of course, the second ranks IBC as the top root beer, and that is just wrong. IBC is a fine root beer, but not in the same league as Henry Weinhard's.
UPDATE: More reviews here. This is really an amazing site with 311 root beer reviews. Obviously, my passion for root beer is mild in comparison. Somehow, I missed Anthony's top-rated root beer, which is made and distributed in Oregon. It's called Bulldog.
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1. Posted by Robert Schwartz on November 28, 2005 @ 0:22 | Permalink
The A&W Diet Root Beer is the only diet drink I find tolerable.
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