Cane sugar soda's is all in your head, "real" sugar the acid in the soda chemically breaks the Sucrose. Giving you a 50/50 ratio of Fructose and Glucose, which is almost the same ratio when you HFCS which is 55 to 42
@@spencers4121 so you would rather drink crap? I can definitely tell the difference let me guess the chemical's are in my head too or do you just not believe in reading ingredients
I'm sad the A&W near my place recently permanently closed 😭 The food was really good and they had a weirdly huge menu for an A&W for some reason. I never got to try their steak sandwich but it looked amazing
When I was a kid, stopping at an A&W stand for a hot dog and a frosty mug of root beer was a great treat. In my early 20s, I used to enjoy an ice cold, foamy mug of Shasta root beer.
Wow that brings back the memories, I remember A&W from the 60’s…our family pulling up in a spot, then they came out to your car, you ordered then they’d bring out the food and Root Beer floats in those heavy frozen glass beer mugs on that orange tray & hang it on your window…and then in the 70’s my mom would always buy me & my older brothers assorted flavors of Shasta soda pop at the local grocery store, I loved the Black Cherry Cola one! 🤙🏼
There's an old A&W in my hometown. They still bring your food out and hang it on your window. If you go in to eat, you order your meal on a telephone at every table. Really good stuff.
I wish they would return to the old formula. They use to use sugar, not frutos and corn syrup. That gave it a more smoothness and the head of foam was greater. The foam would actually stay on your lip when you drank it without a straw. I spent the last year trying to find that experience I remember from the 1960's and 1970's. I have tried dozens of brands and I've come to the conclusion it does not exist any longer.
I live down the street from an old A&W drive in. My goodness they had the window trays for the cars. and burgers in foil bags, mini root beer mugs. all made in glass too. 1 gallon glass jugs of root beer, The Root Beer Floats were outta this world in the 70s. They sell cars now but the building remains. Have not had a soft drink all year. But Hey. I'm down for a root beer. Thank You for the video.🍺 I'm so ready to get mugged tonight😃💥
A&W Root Beer i think is the best . I grew up with this brand and I have tried others but a&w is my go to root beer .. still have those small glass mugs. Miss those drive ins...
I grew up in Philadelphia and as a child enjoyed Hires root beer. It was available everywhere and at most old soda fountains came in draft from a large old fashioned designed barrel. It is hard to find now and I don’t even know if it still available. I have drank most of the leading brands shown in the video. My favorites as noted were the smaller craft type of sodas. We have Hanks and Franks soda fairly available in the Philadelphia area and both of them are great old fashion full flavored root beers. I also found a root beer made by the beer brewery that also has a soda line from Utica, Ny. that is available at my beer distributer. It is higher priced but is a real rich flavorful root beer. 🍺 I also like root beer for the fact most are caffeine free so I can enjoy one at night and still can get to sleep. So try one and enjoy a full flavored soda that has many varied tastes depending on the brand.
I can't see how olipop can be best selling when I've never seen it on a store shelf and when looking up online it's like twice as expensive as everything else.
Growing up in the northeast in the 70's and 80s, we drank "Hires" and "Barrelhead" root beer ... I miss them both ! There was still nothing like going to an A&W drive-in and getting a root beer in an ice cold frosty mug to go with your burger ! 👌
After hearing about high fructose corn syrup, I think I will go with I.B.C from now on. It is available at Walmart, is only sold in glass bottles, and is as close as You can get to an artisan root beer at Walmart. Though I would love to try some lesser known root beers. I wonder if the Amish store nearby sells anything like that?
idk about your area but in my area you can find craft type rootbeers (and others kinds)in the hardware stores and places like tractor supply and the like.
The best root beer I can remember was from a Ohio driver in called Dog & Suds. The root beer was creamy, smooth, not too sweet and little carbonation. It was like mixing Mug with Barg's. They would sell their root beer by the gallon to take home .
A&W is my go-to Root Beer but I really miss Hires - Hires used to be the Pepsi Root Beer brand in Canada until the 90's when Pepsi brought Mug up here to compete with Barqs.
@@marklittle8805 I agree, Mugs okay but it's boring. The label and brand name looks so generic. Hires was better. I think brand ownership in Canada was transferred to Cadbury Beverages (Now Canada Dry Motts) who made Crush, RC Cola and Dr Pepper for Canada but it's virtually disappeared off the map now. There was a Hires Root Beer+Vodka Hard Soda in Liquor Stores a few years ago but even that has disappeared.
I agree, it was always so flavorful, however my tastes have changed and I prefer Old Trail or Bulldog now, although I recently stopped drinking any type of sugar beverage
I had an A&W less than 2 blocks away. On the way home after school you could get a quart in one of those conical containers. The best way to get it was in one of their frosty chilled mugs. Sometimes my dad would bring home a gallon jug.
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As a kid in the 60's the family would go to northern Wisconsin to my grandfather's cabin for 2 weeks in the summer. A 5-hour drive. My favorite childhood memory. About halfway there we would always stop at an A&W in Rhinelander WI. for a mug of A&W Root beer another cherished memory. A&W is the best.
1919 Root Beer is my favorite. You used to be only be able to get it in kegs, but now they have cans as well. It’s so much more smoother than the soda of other root beers.
I agree! Used to get it only around Christmas or on tap at the 1919 stand at the State Fair, , but I think they've finally figured out it's a gold mine and you can get it all year round now.
Dog 'n' Suds was our go-to choice every time! But at home, mom used to buy gallon glass jugs of Dad's Old Fashioned Root Beer so we could make root beer floats..Floats... oh, my oh my!
Wow. I miss the old drive-in A&W's. There's an A&W car that goes around our local show and shines that has the window tray and meal set that is period correct with the bear and everything. It's really cool to see and watch the teenagers ask their parents what it is... Now we all feel old :D
I remember the drive in A&W. The restaurant is still huge in Canada (McD, DQ, A&W and BK), but there's no drive-in restaurants anymore (though they all have drive-thru).
Dog N Suds has always had the very best root beer. They make it for their drive in hot dog restaurants. I am so lucky I can get some once in a while. Their mugs are pretty awesome too.
I grew up with A&W and Frostie Root Beer. However Frosties can't be found where I live now. But I do like A&W , Barges, and IBC rootbeers which are readily available.
A&W restaurants are strangely more popular in Canada than in the US. For some reason I've never seen an A&W in the USA, but they are quite common here in Vancouver, second only to McDs
they have them but aren’t very good. I also went to an A&W in British Columbia and the food was average but the thing that upset me is that they literally had no ice for your soda. I don’t know why they had no ice machine, I complained to the staff and they couldn’t do anything.
There's a Root Beer Museum in Wisconsin Dells that's worth the visit if you're ever up in the area. They also have a wide variety of root beers from around the country for sale there. Bought a case of different brands to try when we were there earlier this year.
Barq’s is number one in my book, followed closely by IBC. There’s also a brand sold at tractor supply I don’t remember the name of, but it tastes similar to Barq’s so I like that too.
My dad got me to loving that root beer early, partly because his pet name for it made me giggle fits when I was a kid. He called it "Barf's" and I've never stopped thinking of it that way to this day, over 50 years later.
@@endrankluvsda4loko172 Found some at costco, but not all costco might have them. 1/5 in my area had them. Also found some sold as single bottles at upscale grocery stores.
A&W Canada and US are actually 2 separate chains now, has been since 1972. The logos are different and restaurant menus are completely different. Same great Root Beer I believe.
Canada A&W is way better all around than any here in the US. That goes for the food as well as beverages. Speaking from across the border in Washington state.
@@loraawalker3618 yeah in Canada AW is like the highest quality fast-food. It's more expensive but everything is awesome, and their root beer is the best fast-food soda by a mile. Like they said uses cane sugar, no ice, comes out super cold. I was shocked when I visited AW in Denver one time and it was all cheap hot dogs and none of the 'usual' menu items I was used to.
@@damendred1 Was on vacation, heading to Halifax, Nova Scotia on my way from MA. We were going to be late so we hit an A&W outside of Moncton. Within 1 minute of ordering, our food was ready and I was dreading the greasy mess we were about to eat. The burger was perfect, the fries were incredible and the root beer amazing. And I know there's a ton more in Canada than the US these days. We have 1 in RI and used to have 1 on Cape Cod. Out in the western US, you can find some really good A&Ws. But not consistently.
I went to Idaho with dad in 1969 , when I was 10 years old , and we ate at an A&W drive-in restaurant where you ordered into a speaker and they brought the food out to your car on a tray that hung on your window. They had the best root beer floats , hands down .
Wow, great historical background! I grew up near Stockton, California - just south of Lodi, where A&W originated. Everyone has their own preference, but for me nothing can compare with the taste of A&W from a frosty mug at an A&W Root Beer Stand “back in the day.” 😋 I like most of the brands available, but I’m partial to Hanks Root Beer these days.
Most definitely frosties was best :-) can still get it at my local grocery store limited supply in throw back bottles:-) tgey dint stay on the shelf very long
My Aunt and Uncle use to bring a cooler full of Frostie root beer and Olympia beer when they came to trout fish when I was a kid. I miss Frostie, only got it when they came to visit because it wasn't available in our stores near home. Hires was my go to when I didn't have any left over Frostie. I miss both those good ole brands. A&W is way to sweet.
I loved this brand and type of root beer. I used to be able to find it but lately have not seen it. I tried it just because I always heard about that type of soda in old western movies. It is something you either would like or hate. It is very flavorful and has different taste compared to regular root beer that is made from different root tree types and blended differently depending on the brand.
There are so many great brands of Root Beer out there. In the last year, my grocery store began carrying "Bulldog Root Beer" and it's some of the best I've ever had, comparable to Sioux City Sarsaparilla. I highly recommend trying it.
There was a Frostop hamburger stand next to my high school (mid 1960's) that I loved. Their burgers and Frostop brand of root beer are still sold at a few drive ins in my area (southeast Louisiana). They still make their burgers the way they did before fast food burgers became common and still serve their root beers in frosted glass mugs!
When you asked what root beer I thought of it was Hires. My go to root beers are A&W & Mug because they are generally available everywhere. Next up I'm game for craft root beers. There are a lot of breweries that make root beer in addition to the IPAs, Stouts and Porters.
IF you can get some Sprecher's sodas you won't be disappointed. Unfortunately I do not know how common it is outside of Wisconsin where we can get it in many stores and even at Farm and Fleet...
If I am going to drink a root beer, I am willing to pay a little more for a smaller batch product. I love it when a brewery makes a root beer. They will use cane sugar instead of the HF corn syrup that the commercial brands use. Abita Brewing in Louisiana and Saint Arnold Brewing in Houston both make a fantastic root beer.
@Dstinct yep, the ice cold mug. It was such a great idea we started doing it at home. All our original A&W's are gone now... Last one we went to in Modesto was forced to shut down last year, it had been there since the 50's.
I still love IBC. They can be hard to find, but I can usually secure a couple of 4-packs. The much harder to secure item is the IBC Cream Soda, but the local Tom Thumb seems to be a good place to check and often has some in stock. I don't drink a lot of it, mostly use it for mixed drinks. But man, it is tasty. Best mixed drink I've ever had is Crown Royal Canadian Whiskey mixed with IBC Cream Soda. It's amazing and I highly recommend it. Assuming, of course, that you are of legal drinking age and like Whiskey.
I grew up in Canada and have long loved A&M. That said I have now lived in 8 US states and the only softdrink I still drink on rare occasions in Root Beer. I now live in the Indianapolis metro area and can say with some confidence that a local place brews its own root beer, and I have never had better. The place is called Mug-n-Bun. It is not carbonated, but it is soooo good. It is almost floral in taste. Sadly, you can only get it at the resturant. But if you love root beer and find yourself in Indy, don't miss it.
I absolutely adore A&W cream soda. It's so sweet so you can't drink it all the time but if you habe it out a glass bootle of pour it into a chilled pint glass it has a foamy head on it like a pint of beer 🍺. Delicious 😋
Me and two people taste tested 20 different root beers a few months ago. Blind taste test. A&W came out #1 for each of us, but I have to say, it was closer than I expected. Mug really put up a fight, and so did some store brands. Barqs is so distinct from the others, but is so good. So I can say with confidence A&W is the best, but there are others that are fantastic too.
I remember A&W drivins with their Papa Burger 🍔, Mama Burger 🍔, Teen Burger 🍔 , & Baby Burger 🍔 . They were all great. Especially with a tall frosty Mug of A&W Rootbeer. Those were the days. How many of those Mugs never made it back to the kitchen???
_I remember A&W drivins with their Papa Burger 🍔, Mama Burger 🍔, Teen Burger 🍔 , & Baby Burger_ I believe that the Teen Burger, back around 1971, was the first burger in America to have *bacon* .
Barq’s was the very first soda I ever tried. I was eight years old when my mom offered to let me try some. It was love at first sip. And I remember there was a message printed on every can by Edward Barq’s great grandson. I felt as if he were speaking to me personally. I’ve since tried other root beers and sodas through my years and most have been good. I agree with the verdict that A&W is the definitive root beer. I love its sweet flavor and it never fails to please me. Barq’s flavor is also unique and it will always hold a special place in my heart. ❤
You can still find Dad's I believe. I seem to recall in being sold at a specialty soda pop store in Lincoln, Nebraska, but I must admit that was the last place I saw it after not seeing it for a very long, long time.
I have tried pretty much every kind that existed during the 1970's through today. I can honestly say, that HIRES was actually the best overall. Types like Barq's and Mug always made my stomach cramp up and tasted weird. A&W always tasted weak/watered down to me(and still does today). Dad's was...ok. and others didn't measure up to much. I LOVED Hires because the taste was much more richer and smoother than the rest.
I am in agreement with the store bought A&W being subpar to the fountains at an A&W stand. They are the top of my Root Beer preferences, my store bought bottled (not canned) is Barqs. In truth I have not tried IBC or some of the other names you have on your sample list. I'm still looking for that taste I had in 1965 in Avondale AZ A&W Rootbeer stand I was 17, we would hit that stand about once a month from 62-66. When I left home and started making my way as an adult.
As an employee of Culver's for many years, the syrup box that was plugged into the soda fountain said "Rochester Root Beer" Culver's just paid for naming rights.
Caffeine isn't forbidden in the LDS Church or Utah. There are caffeinated drinks in every store and BYU' big drink sponsor is Coca Cola. Avoiding caffeine is as much a health tip as anything else. Like "don't eat too much fast food". Barq's just provides it for people who don't want caffeine in it. I had a can of Coke at a church event a few weeks back and no one slapped it out of my hand and called me a heretic. This is a stereotype.
Beat me to it. It's the tea plant and coffee bean that's "forbidden". It's not a stretch to assume that the high caffeine content is a reason for that, but caffeine is not in and of itself forbidden. Many Mormons consume caffeine in soft drinks without a second thought. Some families do raise their kids to avoid it more specifically, like mine did, but like said above it really was about health. My father was adamantly against caffeinated drinks, and raised me that way, but the argument was always one of health over anything else. That said, if the choice is between getting two root beers for a church event or party, and one has caffeine while the other doesn't, Utahns would likely pick the caffeine-free one because it's just easier. It isn't as though there aren't many options for caffeine-free root beer to begin with. That said, I don't think Barq's is very good anyway. Mug is fine, A&W is amazing. And IBC isn't bad.
@@neomage2021no, not true. We don’t drink coffee and tea. That was what began the idea that we don’t drink caffeine. Even some members of our church interpreted it that way, but it was never actually true. I go to the temple regularly and drink Dr Pepper.
Root beer and ginger ale did originally contain low levels of alcohol, which is why they were carbonated. Low levels of alcohol, hence the term SOFT drink. The carbonation came about as a reaction between sugar and yeast fermenting. The fermentation process is shorter than beer, ale, wine, etc, with higher levels of alcohol. Even today you can brew your own soft drinks at home. Home brewing suppliers like Norther Brewer sell the ingredients. I have made root beer and orange soda at home this way.
Point Root Beer, from Steven Point Brewery in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Tried it once when we were up there, and nothing beats it. The best. We're lucky enough to get it in Illinois. It's always in my fridge.
A&W is my favorite. When you went to one of their establishments you got a big chilled beer mug 🍺 and free refills on Rootbeer. Their burgers 🍔 were pretty good too 👍🏻 (I went to the one on O'ahu HI right by Pearl Harbor elementary, next to Jack in the box) good times there
Any glass bottled root beer with real sugar instead of corn syrup is better than the typical canned ones
Very true but get rid of the Carmel color and sodium benzoate
Henry Weinhard's is my favorite.
Cane sugar soda's is all in your head, "real" sugar the acid in the soda chemically breaks the Sucrose. Giving you a 50/50 ratio of Fructose and Glucose, which is almost the same ratio when you HFCS which is 55 to 42
@@tonyleukering8832 Oh yeah... I completely forgot all about Henry Weinhard's! You're right though... Very good!! 🍺👍
@@spencers4121 so you would rather drink crap? I can definitely tell the difference let me guess the chemical's are in my head too or do you just not believe in reading ingredients
I miss Hires root beer... It was my favorite soda when I was a kid...
Yes! Mine too.
@the80hdgaming Frosty was sold, western & central PA. Hires was not uncommon but Dads or A&W was very popular.
Ditto
You can still find Hires. I agree it was and still is the best.
You could make your own root beer with Hires extract, dry ice and sugar. A staple at church picnics growing up.
Dad’s Old Fashioned Root Beer is my favorite, it is hard to find it now. Was big in Chicago.
Some supermarkets sell it!👏
Theysell powder sticks of it online. Works well inside some seltzer water.
I'm lucky because I can go to my local bar and order a bottle of Dad's root beer. I live in NW Indiana. My favorite was the blue cream soda
Recently had a Dad's..... was it always too sweet?
Dollar tree sales Dads root beer
I remember the A + W drive- in near our High School. That was thee best . Great times , great memories , great Root Beer. Thanks for this video .
I'm sad the A&W near my place recently permanently closed 😭
The food was really good and they had a weirdly huge menu for an A&W for some reason. I never got to try their steak sandwich but it looked amazing
When I was a kid, stopping at an A&W stand for a hot dog and a frosty mug of root beer was a great treat. In my early 20s, I used to enjoy an ice cold, foamy mug of Shasta root beer.
Wow that brings back the memories, I remember A&W from the 60’s…our family pulling up in a spot, then they came out to your car, you ordered then they’d bring out the food and Root Beer floats in those heavy frozen glass beer mugs on that orange tray & hang it on your window…and then in the 70’s my mom would always buy me & my older brothers assorted flavors of Shasta soda pop at the local grocery store, I loved the Black Cherry Cola one! 🤙🏼
Some may never understand the greatness of a COLD frosty mug of rootbeer, especially a rootbeer float. I miss the old A&W stands
Shasta made my favorite cream soda back around 1970.
shasta is nasty
@@PapagenoMF At 8¢ a can in 1970, Shasta Cream Soda tasted pretty good. But their cola certainly sucked.
Henry Weinhards make my favorite rootbeer. Uses can sugar and tastes amazing, not too sweet.
That stuff is sooo smoooth
That is also my favorite, glad someone else feels the same way
Agreed! That and Virgil’s are our favorites.
Mmmm!
yes and their private reserve real beer was also great, until bought by somebody. now the grandson uses that recipe in a montana brewery
A&W on tap is top notch. When you get it from the restaurant, they supercool it before serving it which gives it a crisp flavor.
There's an old A&W in my hometown. They still bring your food out and hang it on your window. If you go in to eat, you order your meal on a telephone at every table. Really good stuff.
I wish they would return to the old formula. They use to use sugar, not frutos and corn syrup. That gave it a more smoothness and the head of foam was greater. The foam would actually stay on your lip when you drank it without a straw. I spent the last year trying to find that experience I remember from the 1960's and 1970's. I have tried dozens of brands and I've come to the conclusion it does not exist any longer.
In Canada, the A&W Root beer is made with cane sugar, and for the large majority, it’s the favorite root beer.
Hand-delivered to your car window in a glass mug!
A&W isnt even root beer, its flaovred fructose water, try Virgils root beer if you want to know what root beer IS
I live down the street from an old A&W drive in. My goodness they had the window trays for the cars. and burgers in foil bags, mini root beer mugs. all made in glass too. 1 gallon glass jugs of root beer, The Root Beer Floats were outta this world in the 70s. They sell cars now but the building remains. Have not had a soft drink all year. But Hey. I'm down for a root beer. Thank You for the video.🍺 I'm so ready to get mugged tonight😃💥
A&W Root Beer i think is the best . I grew up with this brand and I have tried others but a&w is my go to root beer .. still have those small glass mugs. Miss those drive ins...
@@warnerroaseau145 The cream soda was another go to delight.
Canadian A&W still uses glass mugs if you eat in, as far as i know you can't take em home though, or at least shouldn't
Nice. I would love to go to a place like this.
@@Strooling Big ol frosted mug🍺A&W Root beer might still have a few stores around today.
I loved Frostie Root Beer as a kid.
Yes, 16oz bottles. Also, Triple X root beer was good, too.
I found it at Ferguson's market in Coal Mountain, GA, and a few other places.
A good one
I haven't seen Frostie Root Beer in many years. I loved that stuff.
12 oz glass bottles!
I grew up in Philadelphia and as a child enjoyed Hires root beer. It was available everywhere and at most old soda fountains came in draft from a large old fashioned designed barrel. It is hard to find now and I don’t even know if it still available. I have drank most of the leading brands shown in the video. My favorites as noted were the smaller craft type of sodas. We have Hanks and Franks soda fairly available in the Philadelphia area and both of them are great old fashion full flavored root beers. I also found a root beer made by the beer brewery that also has a soda line from Utica, Ny. that is available at my beer distributer. It is higher priced but is a real rich flavorful root beer. 🍺 I also like root beer for the fact most are caffeine free so I can enjoy one at night and still can get to sleep. So try one and enjoy a full flavored soda that has many varied tastes depending on the brand.
Hanks is the best I’ve ever tasted.
Hanks and Frank S. There's a Dads
Sadly the owners of the Hires brand will NEVER bring back Hires. A&W was Hires direct competitor and that's why they won't bring it back.
I can't see how olipop can be best selling when I've never seen it on a store shelf and when looking up online it's like twice as expensive as everything else.
Agreed
Ditto I had never even heard of Olipop until just now.
Root Beer will forever be The GOAT
My favorite pop of all time ❤
I prefer birch beer, but you can't find it anywhere except specialty shops, such as Dad's in Pittsburgh's strip district.
Hires Root Beer
Growing up in the northeast in the 70's and 80s, we drank "Hires" and "Barrelhead" root beer ... I miss them both ! There was still nothing like going to an A&W drive-in and getting a root beer in an ice cold frosty mug to go with your burger ! 👌
After hearing about high fructose corn syrup, I think I will go with I.B.C from now on. It is available at Walmart, is only sold in glass bottles, and is as close as You can get to an artisan root beer at Walmart. Though I would love to try some lesser known root beers. I wonder if the Amish store nearby sells anything like that?
idk about your area but in my area you can find craft type rootbeers (and others kinds)in the hardware stores and places like tractor supply and the like.
I miss good ol Hires.
Me too.
Yes, I grew up in the early sixties on Hires and Frostie.
Hires. The best.
Amen!
Personally IBC will forever be my favorite
ABSOLUTELY 💯 CORRECT ❤
A&W is my go to root beer.
A&W on tap in an iced mug is so good it should be illegal.
In a can it's ok. When I was a kid many decades ago, we'd go the the A & W stand and get it in a frosty mug. That was delicious.
@@cisium1184 *Police sirens*
WHY DID YOU HAVE TO JINX IT?!
@@timweaver7826 I’ve tried their root beer floats a few times in the past.
Now those were god like!
@@cisium1184 Absolutely the best IMO. (-: It has to be in the frosty mug though.
A&W will never be beaten . Served in a frosty mug from the tap.... is pure enlightening... with a scoop of vanilla ... pure heaven!
❤
Except drought style that tops it all in with ice cream.
A&W has been my root beer, always will be.
I worked at one in Barrie Ontario a d I remember that the float was still on the menu .
you dont get out much, try virgils
The best root beer I can remember was from a Ohio driver in called Dog & Suds. The root beer was creamy, smooth, not too sweet and little carbonation. It was like mixing Mug with Barg's. They would sell their root beer by the gallon to take home .
I can get one liter bottles at my NW Indiana grocery store. It's in my top 10 but nothing can beat Frost top or Dad's
We had Dog 'N Suds in Illinois too. Good stuff.
We have 2 here. Once we get to March, we're on it!!
I remember Dog & Suds. I never ate there, but some of my classmates in high school waited on cars there. Always to me seemed to be the poor man's A&W.
A&W is my go-to Root Beer but I really miss Hires - Hires used to be the Pepsi Root Beer brand in Canada until the 90's when Pepsi brought Mug up here to compete with Barqs.
Mug sucks. I wondered what happened to Hires. I liked Hires.
I rarely have it. But when I do, it is A and W.
@@marklittle8805 I agree, Mugs okay but it's boring. The label and brand name looks so generic. Hires was better. I think brand ownership in Canada was transferred to Cadbury Beverages (Now Canada Dry Motts) who made Crush, RC Cola and Dr Pepper for Canada but it's virtually disappeared off the map now. There was a Hires Root Beer+Vodka Hard Soda in Liquor Stores a few years ago but even that has disappeared.
I love Culver's root beer. I'm very fortunate that ours will sell it to you by the gallon!
I agree, it was always so flavorful, however my tastes have changed and I prefer Old Trail or Bulldog now, although I recently stopped drinking any type of sugar beverage
interesting. i thought culver's was all about their frozen custard. gotta try their root beer now. 😄
How much for a gallon?
A& W used to do that sell it by the gallon
Yes, indeed. Culver's seems to get overlooked. They do excellent work across the board, and their Root Beer is quite good.
I grw up with Stewart's Root Beer because they ran hotdog stands in my hometown. They would fill gallon jugs of the stuff to go.
Stewart's ice cream is great too.
They Started in my Hometown 😊
you from Huntington?
Another winner!!
As any good maker of quality fountain Root Beer should!
I had an A&W less than 2 blocks away. On the way home after school you could get a quart in one of those conical containers. The best way to get it was in one of their frosty chilled mugs. Sometimes my dad would bring home a gallon jug.
As a kid in the 60's the family would go to northern Wisconsin to my grandfather's cabin for 2 weeks in the summer. A 5-hour drive. My favorite childhood memory. About halfway there we would always stop at an A&W in Rhinelander WI. for a mug of A&W Root beer another cherished memory. A&W is the best.
_we would always stop at an A&W in Rhinelander WI_ I used to go to that very A&W on my way from Illinois to the UP back in the early '70s.
1919 Root Beer is my favorite. You used to be only be able to get it in kegs, but now they have cans as well. It’s so much more smoother than the soda of other root beers.
I agree! Used to get it only around Christmas or on tap at the 1919 stand at the State Fair, , but I think they've finally figured out it's a gold mine and you can get it all year round now.
Dad's and Hires were my favorites as a kid. Another was Dog N Suds, which we got at the drive-in restaurant.
Hires hasn't been available in my area for years, and it's the one I miss most.
Shout out to Dog N Suds!
@@clifftarrance Yeah! They weren't kidding when they said "World's creamiest Root Beer".
I remember Dog 'n Suds, loved that place
Dog 'n' Suds was our go-to choice every time! But at home, mom used to buy gallon glass jugs of Dad's Old Fashioned Root Beer so we could make root beer floats..Floats... oh, my oh my!
Still have an A&W 20 minutes from my house in Iron River, Wisconsin. Drive in , glad i can bring my kids like my father did.
Wow. I miss the old drive-in A&W's. There's an A&W car that goes around our local show and shines that has the window tray and meal set that is period correct with the bear and everything. It's really cool to see and watch the teenagers ask their parents what it is... Now we all feel old :D
That's the first one I ate at almost 20 years ago.
What's the quality like these days?
@@JackFoxtrotEDM
Lol !!! That goes without asking !!!!
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I remember the drive in A&W. The restaurant is still huge in Canada (McD, DQ, A&W and BK), but there's no drive-in restaurants anymore (though they all have drive-thru).
Dog N Suds has always had the very best root beer. They make it for their drive in hot dog restaurants. I am so lucky I can get some once in a while. Their mugs are pretty awesome too.
Is Dog N Suds still in business? We used to have them here in Canada, but that was eons ago.
I worked at one while I was in high school. Theirs was one of the best.
I grew up with A&W and Frostie Root Beer. However Frosties can't be found where I live now. But I do like A&W , Barges, and IBC rootbeers which are readily available.
BARQS HAS BITE BABYYYYYY
Bang's is #1
Barq's has caffeine to feed your addiction.
@@misterhat5823 hell yah brother
@@James_Ford4815 hell yah brother
Barqs baby😤😤😤
Frostie root beer is the best. Hands down.
Sprecher’s Root Beer is in a class by itself.
It's good but I prefer the puma kola
A&W restaurants are strangely more popular in Canada than in the US. For some reason I've never seen an A&W in the USA, but they are quite common here in Vancouver, second only to McDs
they have them but aren’t very good. I also went to an A&W in British Columbia and the food was average but the thing that upset me is that they literally had no ice for your soda. I don’t know why they had no ice machine, I complained to the staff and they couldn’t do anything.
@@johnthomson3248 typical trumper , hating on anything Canadian
@@johnthomson3248 hmm odd I actually like A&Ws tho their burgers and chicken are pretty solid and ofc their root beer
@ No? just wanted my ice. my grandparents and father are Canadian citizens, do I hate on them? Absolutely not.
There's a Root Beer Museum in Wisconsin Dells that's worth the visit if you're ever up in the area. They also have a wide variety of root beers from around the country for sale there. Bought a case of different brands to try when we were there earlier this year.
hires root beer until recently , was still a thing .
Barq’s is number one in my book, followed closely by IBC. There’s also a brand sold at tractor supply I don’t remember the name of, but it tastes similar to Barq’s so I like that too.
My dad got me to loving that root beer early, partly because his pet name for it made me giggle fits when I was a kid. He called it "Barf's" and I've never stopped thinking of it that way to this day, over 50 years later.
A person that knows their root beers is educated enough for any job position in my books 😂
Barqs number 1 right here
Same, Barqs is pretty damn good. IBC is nice both for the flavor and being served in a glass bottle.
Teddy's?
My favorite is Hire’s. But you can’t find it anymore, except in extract form.
Frosty, Sioux City Sarsaparilla, and Dog N'Suds are my favorites. Excellent stuff. Only SCS is widely available, unfortunately.
Yes from a boy born in North West Iowa.
Some local yokel brew pubs and craft micro breweries nowadays are making some pretty good root beers. Good video.
Dad's Old Fashion Root Beer.
I remember this always being the best root beer I've ever tasted but haven't seen it in years.
@@endrankluvsda4loko172 I found some at costco 20 miles from home
ehh!
@@endrankluvsda4loko172 Found some at costco, but not all costco might have them. 1/5 in my area had them. Also found some sold as single bottles at upscale grocery stores.
The best ! was about to comment that and saw this
A&W Canada and US are actually 2 separate chains now, has been since 1972. The logos are different and restaurant menus are completely different. Same great Root Beer I believe.
Canada A&W is way better all around than any here in the US. That goes for the food as well as beverages. Speaking from across the border in Washington state.
@@loraawalker3618 yeah in Canada AW is like the highest quality fast-food. It's more expensive but everything is awesome, and their root beer is the best fast-food soda by a mile. Like they said uses cane sugar, no ice, comes out super cold. I was shocked when I visited AW in Denver one time and it was all cheap hot dogs and none of the 'usual' menu items I was used to.
Mike's hard root beer is really good
@@damendred1 Was on vacation, heading to Halifax, Nova Scotia on my way from MA. We were going to be late so we hit an A&W outside of Moncton. Within 1 minute of ordering, our food was ready and I was dreading the greasy mess we were about to eat. The burger was perfect, the fries were incredible and the root beer amazing. And I know there's a ton more in Canada than the US these days. We have 1 in RI and used to have 1 on Cape Cod. Out in the western US, you can find some really good A&Ws. But not consistently.
@@derbagger22 My wife and I went to a Shaker Heights, Cleveland area A & W and to our amazement, it was just like an Ontario A & W.
Of all the cheaper commercial brands, Hires was my favorite.
I went to Idaho with dad in 1969 , when I was 10 years old , and we ate at an A&W drive-in restaurant where you ordered into a speaker and they brought the food out to your car on a tray that hung on your window. They had the best root beer floats , hands down .
Wow, great historical background! I grew up near Stockton, California - just south of Lodi, where A&W originated. Everyone has their own preference, but for me nothing can compare with the taste of A&W from a frosty mug at an A&W Root Beer Stand “back in the day.” 😋 I like most of the brands available, but I’m partial to Hanks Root Beer these days.
I grew up on "Frosty" root beer.
*Frostie
I find the bottles sometimes when I am treasure hunting.
A favorite for sure!
Me too.
Most definitely frosties was best :-) can still get it at my local grocery store limited supply in throw back bottles:-) tgey dint stay on the shelf very long
"Not Your Fathers Root Beer" is my favorite and it's 5.9% abv! Highly advise trying
Good stuff indeed
Yes, great stuff
Good stuff. A few years ago there was a jump in adult root beers, and Coney Island root beer topped my list. Sadly, they don't make it any more.
That stuff is terrible. Far too sweet, taste "flavored", just terrible...
Hmm disagree. It tastes worse than regular root beer and worse than regular beer. Kinda like the worst of both worlds
A&W actually stands for "Amburgers and Woot Beer"
Lol Allen and Wright. I like yours better.
"ahtdogs and wootbeer
No, it stands for Ameriburgers Won.
how many people still alive got this reference? lol. its not kfc..
Weely?
A&w in cans is nowhere near as good as from a tap in the root beer stand
I love them all. Always been a big lover of Root Beer.
My favorites are Barq's and A&W. I tried Virgil's once. Not sure if they have other varieties, but the mint flavor really puts me off.
For me it was always hires root beer and I wish we could still buy it
My Aunt and Uncle use to bring a cooler full of Frostie root beer and Olympia beer when they came to trout fish when I was a kid. I miss Frostie, only got it when they came to visit because it wasn't available in our stores near home. Hires was my go to when I didn't have any left over Frostie. I miss both those good ole brands. A&W is way to sweet.
Yum! Dad's!
I like Frostie.
❤ Hires was my favorite root beer
Not once did you mention dads root beer.
Dad's 2020s is not common. Big Lots sold it.
It's all about Sioux City Sasparilla, The Grand Daddy of root beer.
I loved this brand and type of root beer. I used to be able to find it but lately have not seen it. I tried it just because I always heard about that type of soda in old western movies. It is something you either would like or hate. It is very flavorful and has different taste compared to regular root beer that is made from different root tree types and blended differently depending on the brand.
To me sarsaparilla and root beer to two different items.
@cisium1184 either way, referring to it the way I did keeps it ambiguous enough to work.
There are so many great brands of Root Beer out there. In the last year, my grocery store began carrying "Bulldog Root Beer" and it's some of the best I've ever had, comparable to Sioux City Sarsaparilla. I highly recommend trying it.
I miss Hires
There was a Frostop hamburger stand next to my high school (mid 1960's) that I loved. Their burgers and Frostop brand of root beer are still sold at a few drive ins in my area (southeast Louisiana). They still make their burgers the way they did before fast food burgers became common and still serve their root beers in frosted glass mugs!
When you asked what root beer I thought of it was Hires. My go to root beers are A&W & Mug because they are generally available everywhere. Next up I'm game for craft root beers. There are a lot of breweries that make root beer in addition to the IPAs, Stouts and Porters.
IF you can get some Sprecher's sodas you won't be disappointed. Unfortunately I do not know how common it is outside of Wisconsin where we can get it in many stores and even at Farm and Fleet...
If I am going to drink a root beer, I am willing to pay a little more for a smaller batch product. I love it when a brewery makes a root beer. They will use cane sugar instead of the HF corn syrup that the commercial brands use. Abita Brewing in Louisiana and Saint Arnold Brewing in Houston both make a fantastic root beer.
Henry weinhard makes root beer too and it's pretty good.
@@nubreed13 it's delicious, but too sweet for me
Back in the day and A&W had root beer on draft in an ice cold mug. Nothing beat it back then, and nothing can beat it today.
Still does as all my local A&Ws. No ice in any of their drinks because all their mugs are frosted when you dine in.
@Dstinct yep, the ice cold mug. It was such a great idea we started doing it at home. All our original A&W's are gone now... Last one we went to in Modesto was forced to shut down last year, it had been there since the 50's.
A&W is great but Dad's will always be a treat.
I still love IBC. They can be hard to find, but I can usually secure a couple of 4-packs. The much harder to secure item is the IBC Cream Soda, but the local Tom Thumb seems to be a good place to check and often has some in stock. I don't drink a lot of it, mostly use it for mixed drinks. But man, it is tasty.
Best mixed drink I've ever had is Crown Royal Canadian Whiskey mixed with IBC Cream Soda. It's amazing and I highly recommend it. Assuming, of course, that you are of legal drinking age and like Whiskey.
No love for Dad's root beer? That's my go-to whenever it's available.
I haven't seen DAD's since the late 90s
My favorite bar down the street still sells it in glass bottles
Barq’s Special Red Cream Soda is the apex of civilization
Root beer and Spiced Rum for the win!
i chase bourbon/whisky with rb
Try it with some gin
I like my spiced rum with Dr. Pepper. Especially the new strawberry and cream kind😊
@@The_R-n-I_Guy captain and doc
I'm going to have to try that A good root beer with a little Captain Morgan sounds interesting
Olipop probably made more because of price, but total liquid beverage sold. I don't see them getting that
I grew up in Canada and have long loved A&M. That said I have now lived in 8 US states and the only softdrink I still drink on rare occasions in Root Beer. I now live in the Indianapolis metro area and can say with some confidence that a local place brews its own root beer, and I have never had better. The place is called Mug-n-Bun. It is not carbonated, but it is soooo good. It is almost floral in taste. Sadly, you can only get it at the resturant. But if you love root beer and find yourself in Indy, don't miss it.
My favorite root beer is faygo root beer. DETROIT BABY!!!
FAYGO ROCK AND RYE
Henry Weinhard Root beer, Cherry Cola, Vanilla Creme and Orange are the Best.
I absolutely adore A&W cream soda. It's so sweet so you can't drink it all the time but if you habe it out a glass bootle of pour it into a chilled pint glass it has a foamy head on it like a pint of beer 🍺.
Delicious 😋
❤
Another A & W fan here
Me and two people taste tested 20 different root beers a few months ago. Blind taste test. A&W came out #1 for each of us, but I have to say, it was closer than I expected. Mug really put up a fight, and so did some store brands. Barqs is so distinct from the others, but is so good. So I can say with confidence A&W is the best, but there are others that are fantastic too.
A&W is at the top of my list for commercial root beer, but I love the crafted root beer from BJ’s Restaurants.
That stuff is some of the best root beer I've ever had.
I used to work at the 3rd shop in the chain and their root beer is dangerously good
Yes! 🙌 Those toffee notes really set it apart!
A scoop of vanilla ice cream for the win.
I remember A&W drivins with their Papa Burger 🍔, Mama Burger 🍔, Teen Burger 🍔 , & Baby Burger 🍔 . They were all great. Especially with a tall frosty Mug of A&W Rootbeer. Those were the days.
How many of those Mugs never made it back to the kitchen???
I went there all the time for the pork tenderloin sandwich or the Coney dog
_I remember A&W drivins with their Papa Burger 🍔, Mama Burger 🍔, Teen Burger 🍔 , & Baby Burger_
I believe that the Teen Burger, back around 1971, was the first burger in America to have *bacon* .
Barq’s was the very first soda I ever tried. I was eight years old when my mom offered to let me try some. It was love at first sip. And I remember there was a message printed on every can by Edward Barq’s great grandson. I felt as if he were speaking to me personally.
I’ve since tried other root beers and sodas through my years and most have been good. I agree with the verdict that A&W is the definitive root beer. I love its sweet flavor and it never fails to please me. Barq’s flavor is also unique and it will always hold a special place in my heart. ❤
I think y’all know my answer
If you live in southern Minnesota, you know that 1919 root beer is the absolute best, straight from a keg!
Ooh that sounds amazing!
The best by far!
Yes grew up in NE Wisc. 1919 is the best. Used to buy it by the gallon from the bar.
I live in southern MN and 1919 is good, but I prefer Sprecher. Costco sells 24 bottles for $20 and it’s really good
How about Frosty?
The one root beer that I miss is Dad’s Root Beer, it was really good and they even had a root beer float novelty ice cream
You can still find Dad's I believe. I seem to recall in being sold at a specialty soda pop store in Lincoln, Nebraska, but I must admit that was the last place I saw it after not seeing it for a very long, long time.
Dad's is few & far between but it's still out there! They've got a store locator on their website.
Dad's can be found at Cracker Barrels.
I have tried pretty much every kind that existed during the 1970's through today. I can honestly say, that HIRES was actually the best overall. Types like Barq's and Mug always made my stomach cramp up and tasted weird. A&W always tasted weak/watered down to me(and still does today). Dad's was...ok. and others didn't measure up to much. I LOVED Hires because the taste was much more richer and smoother than the rest.
I am in agreement with the store bought A&W being subpar to the fountains at an A&W stand. They are the top of my Root Beer preferences, my store bought bottled (not canned) is Barqs. In truth I have not tried IBC or some of the other names you have on your sample list.
I'm still looking for that taste I had in 1965 in Avondale AZ A&W Rootbeer stand I was 17, we would hit that stand about once a month from 62-66. When I left home and started making my way as an adult.
Henry Weinhard's. I buy it at Stater Bros.
I was looking for this comment, it's so good
As a Wisconsinite, Culver’s, hands down. Sprecher’s a close second. We have mastered all beers
I forgot they had their own root beer, for some reason I thought it was a&w.
As an employee of Culver's for many years, the syrup box that was plugged into the soda fountain said "Rochester Root Beer" Culver's just paid for naming rights.
@@VazDraeStudios interesting
Caffeine isn't forbidden in the LDS Church or Utah. There are caffeinated drinks in every store and BYU' big drink sponsor is Coca Cola.
Avoiding caffeine is as much a health tip as anything else. Like "don't eat too much fast food". Barq's just provides it for people who don't want caffeine in it.
I had a can of Coke at a church event a few weeks back and no one slapped it out of my hand and called me a heretic. This is a stereotype.
Sort of. They are free to choose, but in order to qualify for temple worship or baptism they cannot consume caffeine.
Beat me to it. It's the tea plant and coffee bean that's "forbidden". It's not a stretch to assume that the high caffeine content is a reason for that, but caffeine is not in and of itself forbidden. Many Mormons consume caffeine in soft drinks without a second thought. Some families do raise their kids to avoid it more specifically, like mine did, but like said above it really was about health. My father was adamantly against caffeinated drinks, and raised me that way, but the argument was always one of health over anything else. That said, if the choice is between getting two root beers for a church event or party, and one has caffeine while the other doesn't, Utahns would likely pick the caffeine-free one because it's just easier. It isn't as though there aren't many options for caffeine-free root beer to begin with. That said, I don't think Barq's is very good anyway. Mug is fine, A&W is amazing. And IBC isn't bad.
@@neomage2021no, not true. We don’t drink coffee and tea. That was what began the idea that we don’t drink caffeine. Even some members of our church interpreted it that way, but it was never actually true. I go to the temple regularly and drink Dr Pepper.
@@jaketachermusic954 Ah thanks for the info, so it's more about the hot drinks part and not really caffeine
@ well, it’s specifically those drinks. I enjoy herbal tea and hot chocolate all the time as well.
Root beer and ginger ale did originally contain low levels of alcohol, which is why they were carbonated. Low levels of alcohol, hence the term SOFT drink. The carbonation came about as a reaction between sugar and yeast fermenting. The fermentation process is shorter than beer, ale, wine, etc, with higher levels of alcohol.
Even today you can brew your own soft drinks at home. Home brewing suppliers like Norther Brewer sell the ingredients. I have made root beer and orange soda at home this way.
I remember bringing a pack of IBC to middle school to share with my friends, and I felt like a king 😊
A&W is my favorite drink. A nice cold glass with some pizza is the best.
I'd buy A&W on occasion. Cream soda too.
Yes!
Hires in a glass bottle
Frosty smacks but is hard to find.
Classic western PA soda!
Next to A&W, Frostie is best.
Years ago I found a brew your own root beer kit at Target. I got the hang of it and it and brewed it for years. So good.
Point Root Beer, from Steven Point Brewery in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Tried it once when we were up there, and nothing beats it. The best. We're lucky enough to get it in Illinois. It's always in my fridge.
A&W is my favorite. When you went to one of their establishments you got a big chilled beer mug 🍺 and free refills on Rootbeer. Their burgers 🍔 were pretty good too 👍🏻 (I went to the one on O'ahu HI right by Pearl Harbor elementary, next to Jack in the box) good times there
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@@WildMan576
First of all... Go fuck yourself.
Second of all... I don't support Trump. So, go fuck yourself.
My personal favorite is Barq’s! Fizzy and flavorful. Besides my family invented Root Beer!🤣
@@karenroot450 😂🤣😂👍🥤B.W.
I like the A&W rootbeer stand which serves footlong chili cheese hotdogs and rootbeer !😊 The rootbeer is served by the frosted mug or a gallon jug.
A&W in those frosty mugs is the GOAT