Root Beer

[michael_jcws]

Hi All,

Anyone know where you can buy root beer in the UK ? Spent yesterday wondering round london to no avail :(

Cheers

Michael

[Truckosaurus]

ASDA sell it in 6-packs of 330ml cans.

[esselte]

michael_jcws said:

Hi All, Anyone know where you can buy root beer in the UK ? Spent yesterday wondering round london to no avail Cheers Michael

Is that the one that tastes like TCP?

[chim girl]

You mean that horrid stuff that smells of Germoline.

Sicko.

[FHCNICK]

chim girl said:

You mean that horrid stuff that smells of Germoline. Sicko.

it is gorgeous but then again i spent a few years in Canada as a kid so my taste buds might be a little biased

[chim girl]

FHCNICKI said:

... I spent a few years in Canada as a kid so I may be a bit weird...

[andy mac]

Sainsbury's sell it by the 2.0 l bottle. Root beer is great!! And whats wrong with germolene? I often have crackers spread with thing delightful substance.

[wanty1974]

Ah yes, Burger & Root Beer in a frosted mug, hanging off my window as A&W's in Staten Island. Bought to the car on roller skates, too...

[FHCNICK]

chim girl said:

FHCNICKI said: ... I spent a few years in Canada as a kid so I may be a bit weird...

can't argue with that but then again in a country where you walk to school dressed in a full ski suit and balaclava due to the temperature being down to below -30C with the wind chill factor you're bound to go a bit strange

[westmoorfarm]

www.beersofeurope.co.uk/acatalog/Beers_of_Europe__American_Beer_88.html



About half way down page:

Goose Island Rootbeer

This is the best we have found in the UK - the supermarket ones don't taste right.

Their warehouse is quite close to us, but they do mailorder.

[gooby]

isnt root beer the same as ginger beer? or even sasparilla (SP?)

[speedy_thrills]

gooby said:

isnt root beer the same as ginger beer? or even sasparilla (SP?)

No

[dave_s13]

No.

Ginger beer is nice, it tastes gingery.

Root beer is horrible, it tastes of $hit.

[bad_roo]

I get next day delivery from this crew for my root beer fix.

www.americansoda.co.uk/index.php?cPath=21

[wanty1974]

I think you've discovered the root of the US obesity crisis there...

www.americansoda.co.uk/index.php?cPath=23&osCsid=7e84ff93235157bf056fb9dee6401b60

[andy mac]

American soda is not 'all that'. The only reddeming features of the american soda industry is root beer, and Dr pepper. The rest is just slightly flavoured gassy water.

[Fatboy]

FHCNICK said:

chim girl said: You mean that horrid stuff that smells of Germoline. Sicko. it is gorgeous but then again i spent a few years in Canada as a kid so my taste buds might be a little biased

Kids in Canada? Did you ever lick a metal pole in winter and have to get it thawed off? (Requirement for Cnadian Citizenship IIRC )

[B17NNS]

Didnt you used to be able to get it at McDonalds?

[andy mac]

Yup.. Don't think peeps were buying it in large quantities.

[Stamp]

Am I right in thinking, when McDonnals were still a small restarunt chain, they used to have it on the menu. I tried it onec, when I was about 11, as it said "Beer" in the name....