Root Beer

Advantages: It has a very unique taste.
Disadvantages: So many types.

There are so many Root Beer brands here in the United States. There are even people who have their own recipes and make their own. Root Beer is a sweetened, carbonated drink that originally was made using the root of the sassafras plant or the bark from the tree. Birch Beer is similar, but uses birch tree bark. Depending on the different regions, a variety of other ingredients were added. Anything from dandelion, juniper, corn syrup, etc., but the ...
...bit more thicker. A perfect Root Beer is drunk from a Beer mug or stein, and should be full-bodied and thickly foamed. It is actually processed like a beer, put in barrels and kegs. I think it would be hard to find a commercial Root Beer that uses sassafras, and uses all the old time ingredients. Today it's about flavor. Nobody actually pours it in a mug anymore, but it does have a chocolatey rich foam! Root Beer does not contain caffeine, and ... Read review

Advantages: Delicious!
Disadvantages: Only 1 Brand in UK easily available.

...in the same way that Root Beer does. Let me explain.…. On its own, Root Beer (RB) is a tasty thirst quencher, it’s flavour one to be savoured as opposed to being an easily swallowed complimentary taste to carbonated water. Root Beer is always, and I cant stress enough how important it is for RB to be served COLD. Even at it’s lowest point before freezing, pouring a pint glass of RB always yields a glass full of body, with a head somewhat like ...
...it wrong, you get all root beer stuff all over the floor, then it goes sticky. GET A PINT GLASS! (Just over half a Litre to our European cousins) Put a big blob of ICE CREAM (a big blob = what you get at the ice cream truck) of really frozen cold not too expensive ice cream (the expensive stuff melts too fast) in the bottom of your pint glass. Supervisory Point – Get mum, wife, or be careful. Introduce cold RB onto ice cream, you will immediately ... Read review

Advantages: Not many people will nick your drink
Disadvantages: Not many brands available

Ever since I first tried root beer at McDonalds (years ago before there stopped selling it) I have loved it! A very refreshing drink best served ice cold. Definately an aquired taste due to its likeness to "antiseptic" or "mouthwash" as some people will say. The only problem in the UK is the lack of variety that you see in American supermarkets (truth be told, you are lucky if you even see it in UK supermarkets) To my knowledge there are only ...
...most like a "proper" American root beer Bundaberg: An Australian root beer (Imported) sold in Waitrose in "stubby" bottles, probably my favorite root beer at the moment but lacks the edge of US - style root beers Sainsburys own label "Traditional" root beer: Avoid like a root beer plague! the last bottle of this I had tasted disgusting, NOT GOOD ROOT BEER AT ALL! If you have any shops near you that import sweets/drinks from the US try A&W or MUG ... Read review

Advantages: unusual, unique, refreshing, tasty
Disadvantages: medicinal, rare

Root beer, its one of those great American traditions. When I was younger and I watched American kids programs I wondered how they got away with drinking a beer. When I actually went to America for the first time I realised it was simply a soft drink and was almost as wide spread as other soft drinks such as Coca-Cola. Available as a drink with your McDonlads or in a theme park I quickly came to try it for the first time. Now the name root beer doesn't ...
...and had a taste for root beer, so I had to buy some for him. But now you don't have to go all the way over there to get it, as its available over here now. Albeit it its still quite rare. A few supermarkets do sell it. In particular Asda sells 330ml cans in 6 packs (made by Carters). I've yet to tell if different brands taste different, but I'm sure they do, I'm just not drinking enough obviously! Apparently root in root beer does refer to an actual ... Read review

Advantages: Rare In the UK
Disadvantages: It tastes like Germolene

...USA I thought I'd try Root Beer.... I knew from the moment I opened the can I had made a mistake. It smells like antiseptic cream, and tastes pretty much the same. I honestly thought I'd like it being such a fan of Dandelion And Burdock, but I couldn't drink more than a mouthful of the stuff. It is widely available in Asda, but quite who would buy it is beyond me! There are so many things American I like.... Root Beer isn't one of them! (I guess ... Read review

Advantages: It's refreshing, tastes good, not too expensive.
Disadvantages: It's not the real thing.

...So I was just out on this glorius sunny spring afternoon washing my car and had a bit of a thirst on when I came back inside (hopefully this is the start of the nicer weather), so I went to the fridge to see what we had that was cold to drink and I came across one single can of carters root beer. Now I've had root beer so many times before. It's very popular in America where I've travelled a lot and also lived, but I still never tire of drinking a nice Ice cold root beer on a hot afternoon. *****WHAT IS IT***** Root beer is a carbonated soft drink which is very popular in America and very difficult to find here in the UK. Traditionally, root beer was brewed using sassafras bark, a tree native to North America and Eastern Asia, and root beer is typically associated with the flavour of Sassafras, however, in 1976, the bark was... Read review

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Advantages: A huge variery of flavours to suit every taste
Disadvantages: None

...packs (they are tiny bags though with only about 5 in each ) My faveourite flavours include candy floss, berry blue, very cherry and bubble gum. I like to pop one in my mouth and them guess what flavour it is, and sometimes you may be unlucky enough to get one of my not so favourite flavours such as root beer, cinnamon and jalepino. Definately give them a try, and if your really cheeky you could always have a sneaky taste in Selfridges before you buy ;)... Read review

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Advantages: Good packaging, affordable.
Disadvantages: To sweet, to much sugar, don't like the taste

...Well, in my opinion i feel that coca-cola leaves me bloated and with a foul taste in my mouth. Also it makes my teeth feel gritty and dirty. I also don't like how it burns my throat when i drink it. However the packaging is attractive, and i know it is very popular with my friends. The price is alright, it could be cheaper when buying a drink from a drink machine. All in all i think this product will be around for a long time to come. Its just not my kind of drink. Coca-cola as a brand however, i have no problem with, there are many other drinks made by coca cola that i do enjoy, such as Sprite, and their root beer,. I do like coca-cola's ads, both on paper and televsion.... Read review

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