Chronicle Archivehttp://www.sodasteves.comWed, 08 Sep 2010 04:33:35 GMTThe Birth of a Root Beerhttp://www.sodasteves.com/rootbeerSat, 05 Sep 2009 09:43:27 GMTSoda Steve

Soda Steve’s Root Beer

Birthday, February 26, 2006

  

I love root beer, any root beer really, it’s pretty much all the same….right? You are wrong Dr. Brewster”…(little known quote from the movie, “Tootsie”). Frosty Mugs and Creamy root beer, a good root flavor, light on the carbonation and heavy on the body so that it stays on your tongue for a long time. With every sip you almost want to chew it because it taste so rich. It was a simple idea that went horribly wrong. For many years I had wanted to put a good creamy draft root beer in the Verandah (which is now Soda Steve’s) but could never make it happen. I am a fan of A & W draft but it was proprietary and could not be had. Next I felt the next best thing was IBC, sounded good. I left the idea for a while, no hurry right, when the time comes I will just need to give them a call and tell them I need some root beer in a keg, set up for draft and it will be done. Hold on there Bob-a-looie.

As I would soon find out, the old creamy root beer that I longed for, the root beer that used to be common place so many years ago, was not to be had.

Sound like a root beer geek. Right

200 root beers on the market, most are regional and microbrews like ours but they are all different. There are even web sites devoted to tasting and ranking root beer. 


No chalky feel against the back of your front teeth, of course some of our tasters could just take their teeth out and look at them.

Mouth feel, body, carbonation low pressure, is this champagne or root beer. Redneck champagne.

39 different recipes
Weight by grams.
Grasshopper can you snatch the sassafras root from my hand, no because it is illegal says the FDA.

Close contacts in the pop bottling industry, says you will probably have to make it.

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