Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Dad's Root Beer
Dad's Root Beer
www.dadsrootbeer.com
From: Jasper, Indiana
Started: 1937
Tagline: America's Premium Root Beer
Steve-o-Meter: 7 out of 10
Review: This was a pretty good root beer. It reminded me most of MY dad's home-made root beer. It's got a medium fizz level-not too overbearing but not smooth like a draft root beer. The first taste on your tongue may be a bit bitter but the aftertaste is nice and sweet. I enjoy the bitter/sweet but some may find it less desirable. The bitter dies down the more you drink. Amanda said she thought it had a hint of bubble gum flavor. Overall I gave this bottle a 7 out of 10 because other than reminding me of my dad's recipe, I didn't find it to be anything out of the ordinary. It's a good tasting root beer but I wouldn't special order it. I would recommend it to somebody wanting an old fashioned root beer experience.
Father's Day
So, my amazing wife sure spoiled me for father's day this year! I expected nothing less from her as she is always so good to me.
I have always enjoyed Root Beer. I think it's because my dad has a recipe for making home-made root beer and he made it quite often while I was growing up. He is, by default, "the root beer guy" in charge of bringing root beer to all the family gatherings, church activities, BBQ's, etc... I'm not going to lie, his root beer is pretty dang good. He has since passed the recipe to me and I am now able to carry on the legacy. Granted, the recipe is super simple and uses Root Beer Extract bought from the store; however, it is still tasty all the same. Some day I hope to graduate to actually brewing my own root beer from scratch but it makes me nervous because I don't want to start a hill-billy moonshine operation on accident if I do it wrong.
Pretty sure this is how I would look if I ever started living the hillbilly life! |
So my obsession with root beer has only grown since I was a kiddo. In high school, I found the deliciousness of Henry Weinhard's Root Beer. It's an amazing draft style root beer that accompanied me to many late night high school movie nights with friends and camping trips with the scouts. Word of Caution: Drink it cold! Because it is draft style, it will spew like a boy on the tilt-o-whirl after eating nachos if you're not careful.
Then for Christmas this last year, Amanda got me some eclectic root beer bottles she found at Ace Hardware. These flavors included the following:
Jack Black's Dead Red Root Beer
Frostie's Vanilla Root Beer
and
Dang! That's Good Butterscotch Root Beer
It was fun to branch out and try different types of Root Beer and also learn more about each brewery and their history. It was a really neat gift. So it got me to thinking, "I wonder how many other root beer brands are out there."
While surfing the web, I found a pretty cool website, www.beveragesdirect.com, where you can find a lot of these root beers and have them delivered directly to your door. And my favorite part? The 24-Pack Sampler! This site has probably 50-60 different kinds of root beer and the sampler pack will let you try many different flavors and brands in one case. The only two draw backs I've found with this so far is: 1.The company randomly selects the 24 root beer bottles they send you. This means you could run into repeats if you order more than one. 2.It's kind of spendy averaging out to about $2.00/bottle.
So getting back to subject, guess what Steven got for Father's Day? You betcha'! The 24-Pack Sampler!
I display my Root Beer collection with pride! |
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