I love root beer. If you do to, discovering a new root beer is an occasion to celebrate. If you’ve only enjoyed the supermarket brands so far, you are in for a treat. The following root beers are flavors to savor.
Virgil’s Root beer
Virgil’s root beer is one of the best around. It is full of flavor, and well worth the extra cost. Virgil’s key ingredients include carbonated water, unbleached cane sugar, carmelized unrefined cane sugar. Other ingredients that help deliver that distinctive flavor include anise, licorice, cinnamon and wintergreen.
IBC Root Beer
IBC Root beer is a classic root beer with a foamy head. It’s creamy and sweet, dating from 1919 when Independent Breweries Company introduced IBC Root Beer during prohibition. IBC root beer ingredients include carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup and/or sugar, caramel color, sodium benzoate (preservative), artificial and natural flavors, food starch-modified and citric acid.
Rating: 2.5 Bottle Caps
Boylan Root Beer
Boylan Root beer, promoted as having the best head, is probably the foamiest brew around. And it’s pretty creamy too. Boylan Root beer ingredients include carbonated water, cane sugar, natural and artificial flavors, caramel color, natural yucca extract, citric acid and sodium benzoate (preserves freshness).
Rating: 3 Bottle Caps
Hansen’s Sarsaparilla
The Hansen Beverage Company has been setting high standards for itself since 1935. This sarsaparilla, with its dark coloring and nice head, is no exception. Hansen’s Sarsaparilla ingredients include triple filtered carbonated water, cane sugar, caramel color, malic acid, natural spices, a blend of vanilla extracts, honey, wintergreen extract and natural flavors.
Henry Weinhard’s Root Beer
Originally created by master brewers during prohibition, Weinhhard’s is a dark root beer with a longlasting head and pleasant flavor. Henry Weinhard’s root beer ingredients include carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup, caramel color, vanilla extract, natural flavors, phosphoric acid, sodium benzoate (preserves freshness), honey essence and acacia sassafras extract.
Rating: 4 Bottle Caps
Root Beer Recipe
You may be interested in brewing your own special recipe. If so, here are the basics. The rest of the flavors are up to you. You will need a large drink cooler to brew your root beer, and a pair of insulated gloves to handle the dry ice.
Ingredients
White Sugar Cold Water
Root Beer Extract
Dry Ice
