best root beer, birch beer & sarsaparilla reviews. Anthony rates, ranks & reviews hundreds of root beers. Since 1996 exploring the root beer world
best root beer, birch beer & sarsaparilla reviews. Anthony rates, ranks & reviews hundreds of root beers. Since 1996 exploring the root beer world
ah, another one of the elusive Avery’s varieties! i really should just go up to the plant sometime and get the rest of them, it is only a couple of hours’ drive away. i have driven through or at least very near New Britain many times in the past couple of decades but i just …
some relative of the famous US Marshall, Wyatt Earp, supposedly was handed down a book of recipes and junk. whether the famous guy ever actually had anything to do with that book or if it was just some other relative with the last name is unclear. so in that book was a recipe for “dinner …
i really know nothing about this grocery chain, so i read about it on their website. i am still not sure i know the real truth, but it is a fine tale if it fact or fiction. there are not tons of chain stores that have their own glass bottled soda, Trader Joe’s is the …
for this extract mixing, instead of using the quick mix directions i scaled down the directions for making it with yeast. which involved a bit of extra water, 4 cups instead of 3, so a 33% increase, but more extra of the other stuff than seems justified. the extra extract was 50% more, a whole …
Somehow this drink eluded me for many years. it was based not THAT far away so i always thought i’d find it somewhere at some point. that is not a very safe or good way to think since so many companies don’t last. it has been over 11 years since i reviewed the first thing …
i love so much that there are so many random breweries making root beers these days. look and ye shall find. although i look and don’t find much new these days near me. but luckily others look and trade with me or are super generous and kind when they find new things. in researching this …
it has been a while since i reviewed an extract. i bought or obtained a few a while back but never made them. i was house shopping, packing, moving and other junk. but now I got a couple more for christmas and such and i am running low on regular sodas so i feel more …
ah! this one i reviewed many years ago. it was one of the first sodas i tried and i had very high hopes for it based on all of the accolades they advertise on the bottle and packaging. but i really did not like it much at all. perhaps it was a less mature pallet …
this was actually the last stop on my 2022 root beer quest, but as it is my birthday, or it will be when this is published, I am choosing to review it now, today. I was kind of excited about this brewery as I had spent 20 years in the neighboring town and cycled down …
two sarsaparilla reviews in a row?! and two foreign ones at that?! this is crazy stuff. well, when the fine Eric is on your side all things are possible! it is very appreciated when people trade or acquire things for me. I think it is very cool that Coca Cola made a unique recipe for …
California comes through again! there seem to be a few pockets of the country that have a bunch of root beers. one is definitely in the Midwest, from Indianapolis up to Chicago and into Michigan, although those could be three pockets on their own. I would say there is a New Jersey / Pennsylvania as …
ah, my first ever butterscotch root beer! although i suspect there are no other ones out there so it may very well be my last too. i actually did review this, sort of, for the cameras of the History Channel, so if you do catch the episode i am on, this is the mystery root …
alright, so i finally have a bottle of the long sought after Spruce Beer!! it is a different branch off the root beer tree, using spruce roots and bark for its flavoring, which is seemingly popular in eastern Canada mostly. pretty much every review or opinion on this genre seems negative, that it tastes like …
i believe i have mentioned before that i tend to avoid caffeine in my daily life. sure i will occasionally have a cup of coffee, but never really to stay alert, it just tastes good and the decaffeinating process scares me a little. perhaps that is partly why i like root beers a lot, it …
i got an email one day asking if i wanted to trade for a couple of root beers the fellow did not see listed on my site. he also lamented that it was a shame that his local brewery did not bottle their root beer. i told him i would love to trade and that …
i was quite surprised when i found out this soda was again being made. i know very little about the revival of it though so i don’t know how faithful to the original recipe this is. of course i have seen the logo and the like many times over the years as it seemed to …
i am always a little leery of drinks that says things like “Since 1946” on them like this one does. i mean, ok, maybe it was made initially in 1946 and then abandoned for many years until 2013 when Orca brought it back, or at least brought the name back. this soda was not made …
Rocket Fizz, along with the super seeker Sagi, do it again! although i will admit i have some reservations about whether all of these Rocket Fizz sodas are in fact different drinks or just relabeled versions of the same liquid. as a kid i watched the Three Stooges, that seems to be the ideal age …
i saw a photo of this in my daily google ‘birch beer’ search email thing and was very confused and intrigued. huh? what is going on here? Barq’s wasn’t really supposed to even be root beer, why would they make a birch beer? but it is the root beer of Coca Cola that they control …
every once in a while I will do some searches for new sodas. I really should do such things more often as I frequently get very low on new things to review. that is why I have new search results mailed to be each day with different keywords so I can try to keep more …