I just noticed that I’ve tried 204 root beers at the time of this posting. To celebrate the 200th root beer (which hasn’t posted yet) I decided to have a contest. Be the first person to guess which root beer was my 200th and I’ll send you two bottles of any root beer I have available to me (anything at The Root Beer Store, Pallino, Joe’s, Dublin Texas). Be the first to guess the correct root beer and the date the review will post, and I’ll give you 6 bottles of root beer.
Rules:
1 Guess per person
Guess must be emailed to me at rootbeergourmet@hotmail.com
Guess must include the name of the root beer and the post date
Hints:
While the blog posts only post once a week, bottled root beers are added to the ratings tables as soon as I write up the review and every bottled root beer I’ve ever tried can be viewed there.
Not every root beer that’s in the ratings tables have blog post reviews written for them yet (sorry, I’m working on it)
The 200th root beer may be a Draft or Keg Root Beer, Growler Root Beer, or a Root Beer Stand Root Beer, and if it is, it would have come from the Puget Sound area and not from some random place from my many travels.
All the clues regarding the brew and how to figure out what and when have been previously given on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere on the site.
Happy hunting!
Another recently resurrected brand bottled by Orca Beverages. I’m not sure (as of the time of this writing) if Orca is the one doing the resurrecting or if there’s just a mad rush to find a brand as part of the Great Root Beer Revival and these people are sending them all to Orca. As with the others (Red Arrow, Brownie Caramel Cream, Anchor Ginger, Hippo Size), this has a retro looking label with a prominent centered picture and then a few sentences written vertically off to the side that give some explanation about the brew. This particular iteration is supposedly named after a bull called Red Eye who was old and cranky. The only way to coax him out of his pen to do his daily “duties” was to pour his favorite root beer in a bowl for him first. I’m not sure then if his favorite root beer was this one, and if it was, how that all worked, maybe they took over another brand or it was homemade or something. I’m also not sure about what a bull had to do daily that required some coaxing. Last I checked a bull’s job, when not fighting colorfully dressed Spaniards and Lusitans, was breeding, so you’d think he wouldn’t need to be coaxed into it. 
As you know, I wholeheartedly endorse any and all efforts to increase the world’s supply and diversity of gourmet root beer. But this is on a whole new level. The 
