GourmetRootBeer

Support Wisco Pop! Bring An All Natural Root Beer to the Wisconsin Area

Dec 222013

Wisco Pop! Incredients

Some people want their sodas fresh and all natural using only the highest quality local ingredients produced in a sustainable manner. For those people, finding a gourmet root beer is often a challenge. Thankfully, the people at Wisco Pop! are out to make it easier. They’ve already made their root beer, but they need a bottling line to take their operation to the next step. This is where you come it. They’ve launched a Kickstarter campaign for the funds necessary. They’ve got some great rewards including growlers of their root beer if you live in the nearby area. I’ve backed this myself and would love to see it succeed so I can give their root beer try. Let’s make it happen.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/343253418/wisco-pop-bottles?ref=live

Fitz’s Premium Root Beer

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Dec 182013

Fitz's Root Beer Bottle Fitz’s originally appeared in St. Louis in 1947 at a root beer stand. It shut down in the 1970’s like so many root beer stands but was resurrected in 1993 by Fitz’s Bottling Company. Not content to merely bring the root beer back, they wanted a vintage bottling line as well to ensure authenticity. Luckily they found one in some barn in Wisconsin because where else are you going to find a 1940’s vintage bottling line? I must say that’s pretty unique to them compared to a lot of the other resurrected brands. Their bottle is slightly different than your standard long neck as well, which I suppose is related to all of that authentic vintageness. The label is also the original from before so it’s as if the esteemed root beer never left.

The Body is dark and rooty, with a clean crisp flavor on account of the luscious cane sugar. The spices and fizz level make for an excellent little Bite. The Head is average at best but frothy and lingers. The creamy vanilla and wintergreen Aftertaste is very desirable.

This is a quality brew by all metrics. I wonder how it could have died off in the first place. All of their attention to detail in authenticity clearly shows through. The results are impeccable. Drinking this root beer is a pleasant experience that should be repeated often. See how it rates against other root beers.

Gourmet Root Beer in Saudi Arabia – Good News for All

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Dec 162013

Root Beer cans and bottles in Saudi Arabia
This last week I had the immense pleasure of traveling to Dhahran in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to do more electric car academic things, presentations and a thesis defense. I of course was on the look out for the greatest soft drink the world has and ever will known/know. I was simultaneously hopeful and worried. Hopeful, because all alcoholic beverages are banned and so many beer companies make 0.0% malt beverage to sell there, and worried because none of my Saudi friends have ever liked root beer. And also because the internet filter put on by the government blocked my site. I assume it is due to the “beer” in the title of Eric’s Gourmet Root Beer Site and all of the talking of root “beer”. I did send an unblock request explaining the misconception so hopefully it will be taken care of soon. Either way, it didn’t bode well for root beer finding.

I searched in every grocery store and cafe I encountered, and while I did find many new and strange sodas and malt beverages, root beer eluded me until the second to last day. I had gone to Safeway in search of a post card (also something nigh impossible to find). In the soda section I saw cans of imported A&W, my heart was swollen with joy, but not as much as when I turned the corner and saw another display with bottles of IBC. A drinkable gourmet root beer in a regular grocery store. A most triumphant win for the good people of the Kingdom this is. With any luck it will catch on and they’ll start making their own version for me to review. Until then, all root beer lovers heading out that way for extended periods of time can rest easy in the knowledge that some gourmet brew is awaiting.

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