This one ranked well overall but because it was my favorite and I run the show it gets special mention. The owner of one of the last surviving XXX locations bought this brand and is committed to protecting the flavor of the original recipe Mr Maze’s Favorite Root Beer:īedfords Root Beer. Apparently there used to be over 100 XXX thirst stations in the US and Canada selling drive up food and this root beer. This stuff is packed with flavor, has the perfect fizzy pop, and is perfectly sweetened. Triple X Root beer aka Triple X X X Root beer.
I told the boys to pretend they were judges on a cooking show and make comments. We even went back and each re-tasted our top few root beers to prevent bias from the order of tasting. I instructed our judges to rank based on flavor, proper sweetness level, and proper carbonation. I lined up the caramel glass bottles and gave everyone a pen and paper for this blind taste test. Finally, I relented and we held the ultimate head to head root beer ranking of all time…among all the root beer that I could find within a couple months 😉 It was trying to stop my boys from prematurely raiding the stash since I normally only give them sparkling water. The biggest challenge was not finding more root beers. Over a couple of months I started building my root beer cellar.
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What is the best root beer in the whole world?!?! How To Rank The World’s Best Root Beers More importantly it would answer a question that me and my brother have been asking since we were 8 years old sipping root beers on the dock. It would give my boys some excitement during this pandemic. Surely, I could spend less than 50 bucks and hold the ultimate root beer head to head throw down. Some people spend thousands of dollars and thousands of hours educating themselves on all the kinds of rotten grape juice out there and then they call themselves sophisticated. They claimed to have the world’s largest selection. However, during this pandemic I found myself driving past a place in a tiny strip mall south of Denver called the “Root Beer Bar.” There are over 400 different root beers out there and I have tasted probably 100 of those over my life. If you are from the midwest you know it is the best pop there is. If you have read this far, you already know that root beer is the best soda that there is. Why spend time ranking root beers? How are diamonds priceless but granite is pretty much free? Why is golf an 84 billion dollar per year industry in the USA? Because people are crazy. Thankfully, other ingredients like wintergreen, licorice, and sarsaparilla mimic that classic root beer flavor without getting you high and killing you. Since sassafras was found in the 1960s to cause cancer in rats at high dosages it was banned as a food additive by the FDA. However, coke originally had cocaine in it, nobody even knows what the 23 flavors were in original Dr Pepper, and root beer had safrole in it which is used today in making ecstasy. Like Coke, and Dr Pepper, root beer was originally marketed out of drug stores for health benefits. He changed the name from root tea to root beer so Pennsylvania coal miners would start drinking it. Just like Columbus “discovered” America, a pharmacist named Charles Hires, “invented” root beer in the mid 1800s.
Sassafras root beverages were made by indiginous peoples of the Americas before Europeans ever even landed here. A frosty root beer with a creamy foamy top is even more satisfying than a horrible dad joke. Root beer that is, wink, sparkle tooth smile, groan. What could be more American than a kid and his beer. I remember running home to grab a cold one and then climbing up into my tree fort or heading down to the dock on a summer afternoon like a Norman Rockwell painting. My parents would only let me drink one each day growing up but I almost always chose the good stuff. I have been drinking beer ever since I was a kid.
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