upgrading facilities pet peeve

Fyron · #1 April 6th, 2004, 05:34 AM

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Do they taste like beer? Are they made with fruit flavour? or what?

Nope, it has nothing to do with alcohol. Nope, not fruity. It is very hard to describe. Root beer tastes like... root beer. Nothing else tastes like it.

[ April 06, 2004, 04:35: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

capnq · #2 April 6th, 2004, 09:57 PM

Birch beer tastes like root beer. Root beer has tan foam, birch beer has reddish foam. Birch beer is a lot harder to find than root beer; I can't even think of any birch beer brand names.

When I was a kid, we sometimes got a keg of birch beer for family picnics.

narf poit chez BOOM · #3 April 7th, 2004, 08:21 AM

Ice to Eskimos? There was a story in the paper, years ago, about a guy trying to sell sand to the Arabs, for water filteration. Apparently, their sand was the wrong shape.

Baron Munchausen · #4 April 7th, 2004, 08:42 PM

I think the distinctive flavor ingredient in the 'original' root beer was Sarsaparilla root. It's true that now 'root beer' can taste like all sorts of things. If you bought one of every brand of 'root beer' on sale in the United States today and tasted them all you'd never be able to figure out what they are supposed to have in common.

Cheeze · #5 April 8th, 2004, 02:58 PM

Mug and A&W brands of root beer is good enough, but nothing equals Barq's...particularly for root beer floats with Breyer's vanilla ice cream. Yummy!!! (At least that's for wider distributed root beer...there are some smaller brands)

I always thought birch and root beer were similar flavors. Birch beer comes from the birch tree (gee, that figures). I used to love breaking off a green twig when hiking and leaving it in my mouth to taste it. I think root beer is that flavor plus some others.

Oh, and then there's ginger beer. I get that whenever I can, and I've been lucky to find places that sell it here in the States!!

Spoo · #6 April 8th, 2004, 06:26 PM

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Oh, and then there's ginger beer.

How is it different from ginger ale?

Slynky · #7 April 8th, 2004, 06:59 PM

Speaking of drinks not available in other countries, I miss (I don't know how to spell it, so here is the phonetic pronumciation) "shpayt-see", a German drink that is similar to mixing Coke-a-Cola and Orange (but much better).