/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Bangs is my favourite.

pic related is the GOAT

>>10746537
HELL YEAH
>>10746529
close second.
A&W is good from the tap but unfortunately all the A&W restaurants around me closed down.

Is there such a thing as root beer that is non-sweet, or very mildly sweet?

>>10746565
this one is a lot less sweet than the regular stuff you'll find >>10746537

>>10746509
Childhood is A&W
Adulthood is Bangs

>>10746529
>>10746570
*Barqs

>>10746576
Oliet Bangs

>>10746634
with olde thyme

IBC or Stewart's

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>>10746509
I think you mean "AEW"

>>10746509
Weinhard's, if you can get it.

>>10746537
This

Jones deserves an honorable mention

Bought some of this a while ago. Tastes great, but for some reason hard root beer makes me sweaty and gives me a headache. Started to get a hangover WHILE I was drinking them.

>>10746509
Mug>A&W>Stewarts>dogshit>Barqs

This is the only answer. The rest are all garbage after you try it.

>>10746509
Gotta go with the Mug.
IBC isn't bad either.

>>10746955
Yes it does.

>>10747212
this >>10746923
is slightly better

Anyone remember Mugs Up? It was a midwest chain and there's still one in Independence and Columbia, MO. They made their own root beer which was goat and their hamburgers were super goat, although more like a non tomato based sloppy joe. Best root beer ever.

1919 or Bang's

This frosty fuck is top tier

IBC, A&W, Mug, BARQ'S, Big K

mug is the absolute worst

>>10746965
probably because you're drinking an ass ton of sugar to get barely drunk, these things are way too sweet

IBC nigger

>>10746738
Always get a pack when I hit up menards. And some ketchup chips since that's the only fucking place that sells them

Hires root beer. The original root beer since 1876.

>>10746738
Bruh
Best cream soda to add on to that

I used to have IBC as a kid. Good times :)

>>10746576
lol nigga that's not a word

nice and bitter

I don't even like root beer usually but this stuff is too damn good

>>10746576
Don't argue with people, sure I called it barqs since childhood but there's too much trash drinking it.

>>10746576
*Bargs

This is the best root beer I have ever had, but its extremely hard to find

>>10746923
This is the best you can find on the regular.

Barqs is probably the best common root beer you can get tho.

>>10746565
Ginger Beer

>>10746738
>no anise

it just tastes like flavorless sugarwater to me desu m8

bangs is something else

>>10748881
hi-resolution root beer is the shit

Incoming, used to be a die hard Barqs fan, but now its Fitz

Mug is still shit tier tho. Tastes like stale freezerburned rootbeer flavoured popcicles melted into a bottle.

>>10746509
XXX

Local breweries are the way to go

>>10746537

no it's not. 'dads' root beer is like, dollar store level garbage, A&W and barqs are significantly better.

the only actual boutique super-tier rootbeer out there is virgils.

>>10751124
dads is hardly a "boutique" beverage
that shit is mass produced and distributed internationally
>A&W and barqs are significantly better.
plebeian detected

>>10751139

dads is mass produced for dollar stores. nobody else is willing to carry the garbage.

>>10751154
idk what flyover state you live in but its not sold in dollar stores everywhere

>>10751167
Who other than flyovers even sets foot in a "Dollar store"?

>>10751188
excellent point

>>10751167

it's not sold in dollar stores everywhere. but it's not sold in real stores ANYWHERE.

>>10751197
>real stores
let me guess i could name a hundred different retailers and you'll dismiss them all as fake

virgil's extra nutmeg
failing that, either regular virgil's or abita

>>10746509
old dominion is the only answer possible.

>>10746545
Wow. I came here to post this. I've never seen another person that even notices the difference. Thanks for making me feel less lonely anon.

>>10746509
A&W

>>10746509
Trust me, all these stupid hipster root beers like virgils, they go too hard on the anise/licorice flavor, just bullshit to get the "gourmets". Anise should be a light touch with other spices, not the main flavor.

Dads is flavorless, sprechers is A rank but not quite S rank. Weinhard's tastes just like chain root beers. Jones' is B tier, solid but only if there's no other craft rootbeers around. Hard Root Beer is disgusting, F tier. Abita is A tier too, but too sweet/vanilla-y. Frostie is D tier, butterscotch root beer is great but only for one sip before you feel sick.

Red Arrow is the best though, S tier. They go heavy on the wintergreen. Good carbonation, perfect balance of sweetness and sarsaparilla. Only a little anise and pairs it with nice spices so it doesn't overshadow the wintergreen and sarsa.

tommy knocker. buy local, bro

>>10749460
Who the fuck puts anise in their root beer

>>10746738
This is the correct answer, every other answer is homosexual and incorrect.

>>10746965
This shit tastes like soap with a bunch of sugar in it

Australia makes good root beer

>>10751071
I like their beer

>>10754350
>homo
>laps up sphincter

the aged thyme is what gives bangs its bite

>>10754407
Bundaberg makes all sorts of good shit. Ginger beer is their best product but if you can find Peach I recommend trying it.

>>10754350
Excuse me?
>5.9% ACL/VOL

Diamond Bear Root Beer. Locally made and delicious.

>>10755633
this shit tastes like ass hole.

>>10755669
the marketing is really appealing to that basedboy crowd

Daily reminder that any male over the age of 16 who drinks alcoholic soda or any of the carbonated, 6% hard ciders is not actually a male

>>10755679
>fell for the movie reel bar scenes, alcoholic fruits and roots meme

Found both cream soda and root beer in a import shop as I've never tried either. Both were surprisingly the worst sodas I've ever tried.

I'm even the type of person that likes Dr. Pepper so I'm not even particularly picky.