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Title: Who makes better root beer? IBC or A&W?
Post by: gofaster on June 13, 2005, 03:44:56 PM
IBC hands down.  Everything else is just a distant second.
Title: Who makes better root beer? IBC or A&W?
Post by: RightF00T on June 13, 2005, 03:45:37 PM
Barq's ownz j00...although I'm not a big fan of root beer anyway.
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Post by: JB73 on June 13, 2005, 03:47:47 PM
Sprecher
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Post by: Tarmac on June 13, 2005, 03:47:56 PM
A&W is good in a frosty mug, out of a fountain.  Otherwise, it's just "eh."

If you're buying it at the store though, IBC blows everything else out of the water.  Even the other small root beer makers like Stewarts and can't compare to IBC.
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Post by: GtoRA2 on June 13, 2005, 03:48:26 PM
IBC is the ****.


Barks is the **** that comes out after you have a nice cool ibc.
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Post by: TracerX on June 13, 2005, 04:07:50 PM
Go to an A&W franchise and buy the brewed (non CO2) type of Rootbeer only available direct from the store.  By far the best Root Beer I have ever had.  Makes the best Root beer floats.  Note however, if you buy in the bottle or can, IBC is better.

Yours truly
TracerX - Root beer connoisseur
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Post by: Schaden on June 13, 2005, 04:11:03 PM
what is root beer exactly anyway?
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Post by: mosgood on June 13, 2005, 04:27:21 PM
IBC
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Post by: Cougar68 on June 13, 2005, 04:48:35 PM
IBC is great, and my drink of choice when it comes to root beer.  However, there's a brand called Old Soaker from Massachussetts that is just a tad better than IBC.  Unfortunately I can't get it here in TN.  A friend of mine brings some with her everytime she goes for a visit.
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Post by: midnight Target on June 13, 2005, 05:09:51 PM
A & W in a frosty mug.
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Post by: SlapShot on June 13, 2005, 07:41:14 PM
A&W ... hands down ... turn it into a Root Beer Float and your in heaven.
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Post by: Grits on June 13, 2005, 11:36:51 PM
A&W because you can get it with ice cream in it.
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Post by: sling322 on June 15, 2005, 04:57:22 PM
Oh I dont know....I prefer my own root beer.  Its made with a concentrate that you mix with water and sugar and I then force carbonate it in a 5 gallon keg.  Its something to do with the nephews when I am brewing beer and they want to "help".
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Post by: Sandman on June 15, 2005, 05:03:12 PM
A&W, but they have to get it on tap and bring it to your car.
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Post by: navajoboy on June 15, 2005, 05:03:39 PM
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Originally posted by midnight Target
A & W in a frosty mug.


i second that..
there is nothing better then a nice frosty mug A @ W root beer on a hot summer new mexico day.
 
navajo24:aok
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Post by: indy007 on June 15, 2005, 05:04:50 PM
A&W if it's on tap. I'm lucky enough to have an A&W fast food place a few minutes away. That's the only time I'd pick it though. If it's a grocery store choice, IBC or maybe a microbrew.
Title: Who makes better root beer? IBC or A&W?
Post by: SOB on June 15, 2005, 05:32:58 PM
This is easy.  Henry Weinhards. ;)
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Post by: BlkKnit on June 15, 2005, 06:18:02 PM
A & W  is the one, boys.  None better (or even as good).


but, it does give me a tummy ache :(
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Post by: Toad on June 15, 2005, 06:33:50 PM
Don't forget the local microbrews! This stuff is REALLY good!

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Lost Trail Root Beer
Made from the original formula encountered by Joe Marshall, great-great grandfather of Shelly Schierman. Perfect for an afternoon at the kids’ ball game or watching your favorite horse opera back at the bunk house.

“I been a lookin’ for the Santa Fe Trail three days now. Met up with some good folks. They give me some grub and something to wet my whistle. Say they call it “Root Beer” — been a makin’ this brew from roots and herbs. Think I’ll forget the trail and just settle here.”

From the journal of Joe Marshall, somewhere off the Santa Fe Trail, May 15, 1848



Lost Trail (http://www.louisburgcidermill.com/beverages.html)
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Post by: Nilsen on June 15, 2005, 06:35:44 PM
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Originally posted by Schaden
what is root beer exactly anyway?


was wondering that myself.
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Post by: Toad on June 15, 2005, 06:44:50 PM
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What is root beer?  

Root Beer is a sweetened, carbonated beverage originally made using the root of a sassafras plant (or the bark of a sassafras tree), with sassafras as the primary flavor.



Way more than you wanted to know, trust me!

Encyclopedia Rootanica (http://www.root-beer.org/questions.htm)
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Post by: bigsky on June 15, 2005, 06:54:34 PM
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Originally posted by SOB
This is easy.  Henry Weinhards. ;)

at least they can make one thing good.
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Post by: Wolf14 on June 15, 2005, 07:20:32 PM
I have to agree with some of the others.

If you have an oppertunity to get A&W from the stand then yes A&W.

If you cant then IBC all the way.
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Post by: Chairboy on June 15, 2005, 07:21:39 PM
Henry Weinhards is good, but I really liked Thomas Kemper.  If you see any, give it a shot.
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Post by: SOB on June 15, 2005, 07:35:18 PM
I dig Henry's more, but the Thomas Kemper stuff is definitely no slacker.  It's good stuff too.
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Post by: bigsky on June 15, 2005, 08:01:17 PM
i will have to put them to the test. my son really likes rootbeer, his favorite is ibc but ill see if i can get weinfarts here.
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Post by: Tarmac on June 15, 2005, 11:27:21 PM
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Originally posted by Nilsen
was wondering that myself.


Do they have root beer in Yuroland?

If not, it is a delicious carbonated soda pop that is difficult to describe in its yumminess.
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Post by: SLCR on June 16, 2005, 12:15:35 AM
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Originally posted by SOB
This is easy.  Henry Weinhards. ;)


Henry's is one great root beer!  It's very close to a micro root beer.

(http://www.root-beer.info/brews/images/henryweinhards_bottle.jpg)


-SLICER
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Post by: SOB on June 16, 2005, 12:19:41 AM
There was a distributor down here who had it available in kegs, a while back, but a friend of mine told me he checked into it and they didn't offer it anymore.  I haven't followed up though.
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Post by: rpm on June 16, 2005, 12:30:26 AM
IBC kicks A&W's arse every day of the week and twice on Sunday's.
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Post by: Estes on June 16, 2005, 12:40:55 AM
Muggs Rootbeer.
Title: Re: Who makes better root beer? IBC or A&W?
Post by: Masherbrum on June 16, 2005, 12:41:59 AM
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Originally posted by gofaster
IBC hands down.  Everything else is just a distant second.


A&W in a frosted mug from their "Said Establishment's" blow EVERYTHING else out of the water.

Karaya
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Post by: MOIL on June 16, 2005, 03:44:55 AM
(http://www.bevnet.com/images/reviews/henry_weinhard/henry_weinhard-root_beer.jpg)
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Post by: Ghosth on June 16, 2005, 07:18:17 AM
In order of preference.

IBC bottled
AW tap (if its a good barrel)
Barq's
AW


IBC has a nice bite, but its the smoothest of the bottled/canned rootbeers. I've tried a lot of root beers, and its the one I always come back to when I want a really good one.

Barq's is everyday fare, AW only if its on sale for less than barq's.

PS anyone whos in the Fargo ND Moorhead Minnesota area. Stop into the HiHo Tavern in Dilworth at lunch time.

Doesn't look like much on the outside, parking can be a problem. Best homemade burgers & fries you'll find.

And they have frosty mugs they'll fill with good draft root beer.

Ohhh and you can get it all & change back from a 5$.
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Post by: 6GunUSMC on June 16, 2005, 12:49:50 PM
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Originally posted by TracerX
Go to an A&W franchise and buy the brewed (non CO2) type of Rootbeer only available direct from the store.  By far the best Root Beer I have ever had.  Makes the best Root beer floats.  Note however, if you buy in the bottle or can, IBC is better.

Yours truly
TracerX - Root beer connoisseur



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