Way back in mid April my wife said that she wanted to go to the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. It’s over an hour drive north so I said that I’d look into it. I immediately started looking to see if there was any breweries with root beer. Ironically, the Skagit River Brewery was right there, but I’d just reviewed it a mere two weeks before. None of the others seemed to have any but I sent out emails. La Conner Brewing Company responded that they made their own and served it tapped out of the brew vats. Well that settled it, we were going to Tulip Festival! We took the morning and went to Tulip Town and I was completely amazed at the acres and acres of blooming tulips. The day was beautiful and we spent several hours walking in the field and took a tractor ride. Then we drove another 10 minutes, past more tulip fields, to La Conner for lunch. The first thing I did was order a root beer, no ice, lots of Head.
The Body is very mild and fruity with a little spice. It isn’t watery, it just doesn’t really have much flavor if that makes sense. The Bite has just a little spice and some sour carbonation coming up but not much. The Head doesn’t exist, at all, and there is even low carbonation as well. The Aftertaste is sugary and sour that vanishes quickly.
Ew, seriously? That’s their root beer, it’s just bad, weak, fruity, and sour. Why did they put sourness in it? And why no Head? The waitress said that it’s more of an old fashioned sarsaparilla type root beer with low carbonation, but last time I had a sarsaparilla, it tasted good. Even their root beer float, which I hesitantly ordered for the children at their insistence, was bad. Fancy vanilla bean ice cream could do nothing to improve that flavor. What kind of root beer can’t be improved with vanilla ice cream? Horrible root beer, that’s what. The food was pretty good, especially the fish tacos, but it was overpriced. I can’t really recommend this place to anyone, though do check out the tulips if you’ve got a chance.
Fish tacos and wood fired pizza for lunch. Pretty good but over priced.
The my wife and daughter in the tulip field in all of its glory.
Made by Knox Brewing in Pacific Grove California, 
My esteemed coworker, Jimmy Jeff got this down in Texas at a Carl’s BBQ Restaurant where it’s labeled as Carl’s BBQ Old Fashioned Root Beer. However, it’s really a custom recipe by Teeroo’s Private Label that’s bottled by Ginseng Up. The Teeroo’s recipe was originally developed by some private labeler in Florida who the owner of Teeroo’s worked for as a distributor. Eventually the Florida dude gave it up, probably to retire in New York, and Ginseng Up told all of the other distributors that they could operate independently and continued to supply the recipe, which is different than the Ginseng Up recipe. As Teeroo’s labels for lots of small businesses in Texas, I’d expect there to be numerous different labels. The trick to identifying it is to look for the small print that lists Teeroo’s as the distributor. Unfortunately, there is a very real possibility of other private labelers in other states, with no affiliation to Teeroo’s, to be using this recipe as well. I have no doubt that 
