R & B Produce Homemade Root Beer

February 12, 2006
Filed under: root beers — anthony @ 5:23 pm
Type: Root BeerComes In:12oz glass bottle, 64 oz glass growler
Available:NJ, PAObtained in:Amish Market in NJ
Head:Sweetener:sugar
Caffeine:No

i was pretty excited to see this in the Amish store, having never had a homemade root beer before really. the one i tried to make does not really count as it failed. i had always thought they should have some homemade root beer there but as i had only gone a few times and never saw any, i thought they must not. the fact that it is made with root beer extract is somewhat discouraging also, i hoped for some secret Amish recipe or something. oh well. so actually it is not all that good. kind of hearty smelling but then the taste is a little weak. not bad, but not really great. i am not sure the carbonation really worked that well either as there is barely any present and there is a good amount of residue on the bottom of the bottle. but it is decent and a fine first taste of homemade root beer although i doubt the ingredient list is correct in listing root beer extract before water, that would be a LOT of extract! if you can find it, grab a bottle or a jug and enjoy!
Anthony’s Rating: 68
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Old Towne Root Beer

February 12, 2006
Filed under: root beers — anthony @ 5:21 pm
Type: Root BeerComes In:20 oz plastic bottle
Available:ILObtained in:send in mail!
Head:MediumSweetener:high fructose corn syrup
Caffeine:No

I got an email a bit ago from a friendly fellow who offered to send me this soda. i of course accepted and a couple of days later this bottle arrived on my doorstep, wrapped better than a nuclear warhead smuggled into a third world nation. very impressive. so the website claims that this beverage is distributed in 14 states from the midwest to the northeast, but frankly i have never seen it and i drive all over that general area a good amount, looking for sodas. but it is bottled by Royal Crown (of Chicago) which i would imagine would be rather widespread. anyway… i feel like they should have gone all out with the old timey spelling and called the company “Olde Towne” if you are going to go with the “e” on the “Towne.” enough with this, off with the cap! hhhmm, curious flavor, they have ventured somewhat away from the traditional root beer taste here. very bold for a semi-generic drink. it has a sweetness that reminds me of marshmallows at first. not too bad. a little harsh in the carbonation, i know i will be burping after downing this stuff. the root beer taste is under there though, so i know what it is i am drinking. pretty good for a store-like brand.
Anthony’s Rating: 72
User’s Rating: 36
# of ratings:2
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Stone Creek Root Beer

February 12, 2006
Filed under: root beers — anthony @ 5:19 pm
Type: Root BeerComes In:20 oz plastic bottle
Available:IL, NJObtained in:Springfield, NJ Big Lots
Head:TinySweetener:sugar
Caffeine:No

so i play baseball every sunday with some friends of mine, at least in the spring and summer. it is quite a good time. but one never knows just how many people are going to show up in a given week. so sometimes there is a game, sometimes we just hit it around and other times no one else shows up at all. anyway, right near the field is a Big Lots store. for those of you unfamiliar with the Big Lots, it is like Odd Lot or other stores that seem to get random stuff that did not sell at other stores for whatever reason. one day at the end of last summer i stopped in there after no one else came to baseball. and they had around 4 kinds of rootbeer i had never had! which is weird as i have had quite a few. this was one of them. (have i written all of this before for a different soda i found that day? probably)
i am quite amazed that this does not have corn syrup as it seems to be a pretty generic soda, from “Douglas Foods.” i can’t find any mention of the soda or the company anywhere else so maybe this is very very old or a failed venture or they just have no web presence.
in any case, it is pretty good. a little bit syrupy but the flavor is good. it completely lacks any sort of head which may be due to it being old. i will have to try another bottle and update if need be. a traditional root beer flavor with a good amount of sweetness, no real other flavors or spice going on, which is good and bad really.
Anthony’s Rating: 74
User’s Rating: 51
# of ratings:2
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Wildwood Rootbeer

February 12, 2006
Filed under: root beers — anthony @ 4:57 pm
Type: Root BeerComes In:12 oz can
Available:ILObtained in:somewhere in IL
Head:MediumSweetener:high fructose corn syrup
Caffeine:No

this brand is “produced under the authority of Dr Pepper/Seven Up Bottling Group, Inc … Northlake, IL” which makes me think it is mostly available around the Illinois area, but i may be wrong. i know i got it there somewhere. i really must save receipts for sodas better than i do. i can picture the machine and store i bought it in but placing it exactly is difficult. so moving on… for the 25 cents i spent on this, i am pretty happy with it. yeh, it is VERY sweet but it has a little bit of an extra taste to it. a touch of caramel perhaps. which does not make it great or as good as the majority of root beers out there, but for a bargain brand, i think it is alright.
Anthony’s Rating: 73
User’s Rating: 74
# of ratings:5
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