Yes, i know this has nothing to do with christmas or any other holiday, but i felt it was better to continue a tradition of reviewing a semi-strange, fringe root beer type foreign beverage for my christmas time review. even calling this a ‘root beer’ is a stretch i know. yet, it has many of …
Iron Hill Brewery Root Beer
there are a few locations of the this brewery, a couple of which are about 40 minutes from my office. that is just too far to try to go to at lunch time so I kept putting it off and thinking i will just go there one day after work and go home late. but …
Watkins Imitation Root Beer Extract
it never occurred to me before, just how much caramel color must be in most extracts to have it still be a dark brown after it is all made up, with a tiny bit of extract to a whole lot of water and/or other liquid. i thought of this because this extract has caramel color …
Franklin Fountain Poor Richard’s Root Beer
I have heard the tales of this root beer for a while now and have intended to get it for a long while but it never worked out that I was in Philadelphia with some free time at the same time they were open. But this time the stars aligned and all was good in …
Yards Brewing Co Root Beer
I began my south eastern Pennsylvania root beer quest on this day with a visit to Yards. I was rather surprised to hear that they did not sell growlers of their root beer, so I sat at the bar to sample it. Which is fine in general, but I had places to go and I …


