It's no secret to anyone who reads this blog that I'm a big fan of root beer. I even held a strange root beer contest on here over 20 years ago when I found a can of Hires root beer in the store.
As I mentioned in that particular post, if we go back even further to about 30 years ago, one of the first websites I ever built was a Barq's fan page on Geocities. I'd give almost anything to see that old website again.
When Kayah turned one, we even themed her birthday party as a root beer party. I bought as many kinds of root beer as I could find!
I think my love of root beer started with my dad brewing it in beer bottles when we were kids. I don't know that I'll ever recapture how good that root beer tasted. Like a junkie, I spend my life chasing that high from boutique candy store to boutique candy store, trying to find a root beer that can fill that hole.
Fast forward to this weekend, and the lovely Rhonda got me a four-pack of Intergalactic Root Beer. Or maybe more accurately, Captain Electro's Intergalactic Root Beer. I dunno. It has a rocket on it, it has a robot on it. It's perfect.
And it was delicious. The wintergreen and pepper flavours are particularly nice.
And it makes me grateful that society has begun to shake off the allure of the monoculture. That desire that we should all watch the same thing, eat the same things or live the same way. Coke and Pepsi are certainly guilty of this; for a time, you drank what they put on the shelf.
Thankfully, sometime around that reintroduction of Hires that I talked about in 2005, the world started to diversify again. Now it's easy for me to grab a Jones Soda, Boylan's or even the local Paperback Beverage Co. root beers and enjoy something other than the behemoth that is A&W.
The biggest issue now is that I need to plan a trip to London Drugs. I need more of that sweet, sweet elixir.
What's your favourite root beer?
1 comment:
I've always been a fan of the good ol' Barqs. But they're mostly all good.
Paperback brewing in Regina makes really good drinks, like cream soda, etc. I don't like their Root Beer though. Which is probably the first Root Beer I didn't like.
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