Root Beer!!

Paranoid Dot Calm

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My Dad used to brew his own beer in a 4 gallon crock in the basement. I loved the smell of that canned syrup or thick mixture of hops as he opened the can during preparations.
He used green Canada Dry gingerale bottles when bottling. Not the 2 cent small ones, but those 5 cent refundable ones. Probably a litre or whatever.
The house reeked of beer during the brew time, which was a month or less. As soon as you walked into our house, it smelled like a washroom at Maple Leaf Gardens. It smelled like that old tattered wooden box which collects the beer caps behind a bar and where the bar keeper opens bottled beer.
Anyways; after the beer was brewed and bottled, he then bottled or made root beer. He used the same litre bottles as was used with his beer.
Well, as a kid, I pigged right-out!
I can't handle root beer anymore.
It's kind of sad .... I know. Not slash-up time, but so sad, eh?
I like Cream Soda now. (The red stuff.)

One time I was visiting a small town in Newfoundland and that A&W Bear showed up because of a new outlet opening.
I swear that half the town turned up to see the Root Beer Bear!

But .... fudge beats pop anyday!

Calm
 

peapod

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Ricky we need to send you a 6pack of a&w root beer. Than you can decide...if you give me your address in a pm I will send you a 6 pak :p no need to send me any gouda, we have lots here. :p
 

EmmaDibbs

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So...do you get coke with lemon in over there? I don't like it but just felt like asking...tastes like fairy liquid if you ask me (do you get fairy liquid??)
 

Reverend Blair

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Apr 3, 2004
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What's fairy liquid?

I've seen people get a hunk of lime with their rum and coke, and I've put lime in a Corona to cover up the skunky flavour, but I've never seen lemon with just straight coke.
 

Reverend Blair

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For all I know they sell it here too. The shelves seem to be full of something. I've never been a big shopper...I pretty much stick to buying beer and tobacco.