Not your father's root beer

Greg1959

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Have any of you tried this yet! It tastes great! I understand some of you don't drink barley pop (That's fine) but this stuff is awesome.

Kinda pricey...$9.09 + Tax a six pack.

It's selling so fast that the brewery can't keep up with demand and now the bottle supplier can't keep up with the bottle making.

If you do run across it. If you do run across it, I suggest you try it.



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I maybe able to recall a situation where somebody put a bunch of root beer bottles into the Molson Canadian beer filler line . That was 25 years ago.
 
buickanddeere- LOL, I remember some talk on here about that. But this stuff is produced in a
craft brewery somewhere in Illinois. I got ahold of some and just wanted to share my thoughts.

Thanks
 
There are a couple of copy cats around here,but NYF is the best.Local watering hole my wife and I go to has vanilla ice cream in the freezer.Makes a float with a kick. 12% per bottle.
 
SWMBO is from New Ulm, MN, home to Shell's Brewery. They still produce their 1919 root beer that carried the company through Prohibition. You can get gallon jugs in the grocery store. Best root beer I have ever tasted. Would love to try a hard version from them.
 
That is some very tasty stuff, and great for an adult root beer float. The local establishment I go to was one of the first to get it once it was available here in Iowa. Since then, every place I've been to and asked has said they were out. Can't keep it stocked. If I remember correctly, I was told the bottle is 5.9%, soon it should be available on tap at 9% I believe and they make a special run or two of cans that are up around 15%, and I hear you can't taste the difference between any of them!
 
Yes.Neighbor brought some to the last impromptu driveway party. Delicious. Have 6 in the fridge. Also brought some
Leinenkugel grapefruit shandy. Wonderful stuff on a hot summer day. Only have 2 left.
 
Those shandy's are good, actually very refreshing and you hardly notice any alcohol buzz with one and a meal which is the norm for me daily in the warm months. I like the summer, lemon-berry (favorite), and cranberry ginger which is perfect with a thanksgiving dinner. Grapefruit was strong in flavor, took a six pack over time to adapt! I have one left and picked that up sometime this spring. Problem is, these in particular, get you away from traditional styles/flavors, they're so good and refreshing. It sure is a far cry from my grandad passing me a sample of Piel's when I was a kid, mass produced beer was just not so good in those days, was not even sure I liked beer at all back then. I am sure plenty of people were turned off on beer just the same, because of the bad taste. Craft brewing sure came back with some incredible offerings like we have today.
 
I found some, got excited, bought 12. Got home
and cracked one open and it tasted just like root
beer! Then realized I don't drink root beer too
often and there's still 10 of them in the fridge. I'll
stick to my normal beers.
 
nick m- I understand your point. It's certainly not something you want to drink a lot of. Gosh, if I drank more than two, I'd be puking my guts out from all the sugar.

I look at this as a root beer that you sit on the front porch after a hot days work and enjoy it as refreshing and cooling down/relaxing.

It's not something you binge drink on.
 
(quoted from post at 12:55:24 09/01/15) buickanddeere- LOL, I remember some talk on here about that. But this stuff is produced in a
craft brewery somewhere in Illinois. I got ahold of some and just wanted to share my thoughts.

Thanks

Bought some tonight. Bottled in Small Town Brewery, La Crosse, WI
 
(quoted from post at 12:30:47 09/01/15) Have any of you tried this yet! It tastes great! I understand some of you don't drink barley pop (That's fine) but this stuff is awesome.

Kinda pricey...$9.09 + Tax a six pack.

It's selling so fast that the brewery can't keep up with demand and now the bottle supplier can't keep up with the bottle making.

If you do run across it. If you do run across it, I suggest you try it.



mvphoto26867.jpg

Try putting one in the freezer till it gets slushy. Makes it even better.
 
Never seen any of that stuff but maybe a regional thing. I know of many beers that are or where regional at one time. Back when I was in the Navy Coors beer did not get past the state line of Missouri. You could go into OK etc and get it but not any where east of that. I came home on leave one time and drove to see my grand parents in OK and picked up some 10 cases of it and haul it to CT where I was stationed. Guy found I had it and where giving me 2 or 3 times the price for it. Have many stories like that from my navy years
 
had some the other day. a bit sweet for me but my wife loves it. finally a beer she will drink. and yes makes a great root beer float.
 
(quoted from post at 21:20:52 09/01/15) Never seen any of that stuff but maybe a regional thing. I know of many beers that are or where regional at one time. Back when I was in the Navy Coors beer did not get past the state line of Missouri. You could go into OK etc and get it but not any where east of that. I came home on leave one time and drove to see my grand parents in OK and picked up some 10 cases of it and haul it to CT where I was stationed. Guy found I had it and where giving me 2 or 3 times the price for it. Have many stories like that from my navy years
Wasn't that the plot of Smokey and the Bandit. Hauling bootleg Coors beer east of the Mississippi?
 

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