Back in the early 1900s, the city of Crown Point, Indiana, was the home of a large regional brewery, Crown Brewing. It closed, however, in 1916. Then in 2008, two guys wanted to bring local craft beer back Crown Point, and resurrected the Crown Brewing name. They have been active in the community and host festivals and whatnot. Since they wanted to be the coolest sort of brewery, they also make and bottle their own root beer. The bottle itself is kind of psychedelic and I can’t help but wonder if it was made to be viewed with 3-D glasses. The label boasts that they use the “finest raw sugar and Lake Michigan water.” I’ve never thought that using Lake Michigan water would be something brag about, but I’m not from Indiana. Other than the sugar, it has all artificial flavorings, which might bother some people, but I know that a chemical produced in a lab can have the identical molecular structure as one produced in a plant so, bring. It. On.
The Body has generic creamy root beer flavor to it with some nice vanilla. The Bite is sharp and prickly and a bit spicy. It’s sharper than I would like. The Head is very short, but frothy. It’s rather disappointing. The Aftertaste is light vanilla.
Well that is pleasant. Though the Bite is stronger than I like and the Head is shorter, nothing else really stands out about this but nothing is really bad either. It’ll make a nice float and a decent meal accompaniment, though it isn’t one you’d really seek out to have on its own. See how it rates against other root beers.
Shortly after I started my undergrad at the University of Washington, before my mission and the transfer to BYU, I was in a QFC (Quality Food Center) to buy some groceries with some friends from my dorm. I of course went searching for root beer and found these little bottles of in the ethnic foods section, you know, because it’s Jewish and that’s ethnic evidently or at least it was in the year 2000, even though root beer is America’s Beverage. Also, what strange little stubby glass bottles, they’re only 10 ounces and have plastic caps from two liter bottles. Also the label says it’s “Blended for Full-Bodied Flavors”.The brand itself is from New York (so ethnic) and is one of several flavors that Dr. Brown’s (such a Jewish name) makes. It’s Kosher and has no sodium. They also make a celery soda which sounds frightening but I hear it goes well with deli sandwiches. 
One day as I’m checking my special, root beer email account, I get a message out of nowhere from a fellow named Jake, asking me if I wanted to try Harpoon Root Beer from the 
