Is it just Utah...or do nonmormons brew up their own root beer too?
Many non/ex mormons make their own beer due to Utah's fvcked up liquor laws, but I've noticed here that mormons go into great detail about all the time they spend brewing real root beer. Do other people make their own root beer?
Oh yeah...and the mormon guy who made and bottled his own root beer but this in old coke bottles...because the other way more devout TBM wouldn't tough it becaise it said "Coca-cola on the bottle....
We made our own root beer (which sometimes exploded), ginger beer and birch beer when I was growing up in New England. The only thing I knew about mormons back then was that my grandmother liked their choir.
We have a couple of Amish markets not far from where I live and they sell their own homemade root beer. They serve samples in little paper cups. Yuck, a very medicinal taste. All their other goods are wonderful, from baked goods to fresh farm produce.
We made giant vats of root beer for ward parties when I was a kid. My dad was the best brew master! I remember the big galvanized trash can (brand new and thoroughly cleaned, of course) and blocks of dry ice.
He had me convinced that "Dad's Root Beer" was his. He loved telling tall tales!
healyourpast Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > He had me convinced that "Dad's Root Beer" was > his.
Meanwhile, my father told me that the A and W in A&W root beer was for Alice and Willard Marriott. It's actually for Roy Allen and Frank Wright. But Marriott had an A&W franchise for the Washington, DC metro area, so my dad's claim didn't come out of thin air (like some of his others).
I have never understood Mormons' love for root beer. I always disliked it. Maybe they like it because it has 'beer' in the name? The local brewery (St. Arnold's) brews root beer in addition to real beer. I have no idea if it's any good or not.
St. Arnold's root beer is one of the best. I have always loved root beer, and look for microbreweries that brew some everywhere I travel. Glad I live in Houston and have a steady supply.
For the record, I don't like regular beer. Jack and Coke or red wine are my alcoholic beverages of choice.
That's good to know. I might try it then. I'm usually game to try new things. I'm not a big beer fan either but my husband loves it. He is a big fan of St Arnold's and Shiner. Even though I don't like beer, I do try all the new beers my husband purchases. I prefer wine, my favorite being chardonnay. I also like vodka and bourbon whiskey. 1835 is a good Texas bourbon whiskey. We have also been loving on Jack Daniels Single Barrel.
One Shot of Amaretto in a small glass One Shot of Root Beer Schnapps Float a bit of 151 Rum on top Light on fire -- be careful, do not try this at home
Drop flaming shot into a 8- or 12-ounce glass of beer
Down the whole thing in one go.
Don't try to drive or walk or anything after doing a couple of these. They taste like Dr. Pepper for some reason.
When we used to have family reunions out in Utah during the 60s and 70s, my grandad would make up a big batch of root beer in a big washed out milk container (the ones the farms used to use to get the milk from the cow to the market). I loved it, and I still love root beer. I remember that the bees loved it too, and we were always shooing them away from out cups.
I don't think I got to where I liked root beer until I was in my 20s. They used to serve root beer floats a lot for activities at church, and I used to sigh and ask for a bowl of ice cream.
But when I used to drive through Wisconsin, there were stores at certain exits that had dozens of different kinds of root beer, and some were locally made. I used to like one that was made with honey. Mormons only like that A&W shit though, because it bears the initials of two rich Mormons.
On my mission in Japan we wanted to make root beer for the members to try at a ward party (pretty much all Japanese people dislike root beer and think it tastes like medicine).
We couldn't get dry ice, so we went with fermented root beer, and the best we could find for bottles was the empty 1L sake bottles that were left out every garbage day.
Anyway, it didn't really work, and we all wound up with headaches.
I lived in Arizona, but even though lots of TBMs drank root beer, they drank the store-bought ones. Maybe it's ultra-TBMs in Utah that do that, or think store-bought root beer is evil or something.
According to this blog, Mormon's love root beer floats because the root beer symbolizes baptism and the ice cream symbolizes the holy ghost. Kinda funny.
The Mormon root beer made with extract and dry ice for carbonation always seemed weak or lacked proper carbonation. I prefer a commercial product. It's hard to beat A&W draft.
PS add some Jagermeister and it becomes a "Booyah."
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It's kind of strange, I live out in the sticks. The closest restaurant is about a mile away. It's back in the woods overlooking a lake.
They make micro brews that my DH loves. They also make their own rootbeer that is one of the few i've ever liked. We buy half gallon bottles from them and have them refilled when we want more.
Their food isn't all that great, but they're always busy because they have no competition for miles.
It was very common for our family (some from Nebraska and the midwest-not LDS) to make their own root beer in the 30's 40's 50's and on. Our family used to get together, long before I converted for 4th of July with cousins who made an annual batch! We made home made ice cream also for root beer floats!
I loved it.
We never made any root beer ourselves when I was a member. We made home made ice cream though.
Utah MORmONS make up a lot of root beer? REALLY???
How the Hell would MORmONS have the time to do all that root beer brewing between all the temple ordinances work /*Saving* of the dead, between all the HT ing and VT ing, between attending all the churchin' MORmON meetings, between keeping up with their church calling, and between working as much as possible to try to make enough money to meet all their added MORmON financial demands, between the current LDS INC directed attempt to Spam Jam Facebook and Youtube into de facto PR arms of LDS INC, between writing to their missionaries, between having FHE, between attending all the MORmON weddings and funerals, and between keeping stocked up on all the diet pepsi and diet coke that MORmONS drink.
What Hill Billy MORmONS (in which time warp of the past ) have you been around?
There is a distillery in Montana that makes a cream bourbon that is great with root beer. Baileys Irish Cream may work as well. Gin is horrible in root beer, a mistake I learned when opening a bottle of root beer I mistook for ginger beer and pouring it over some gin.
I like rootbeer a lot, but only the glass bottle/artisanal types. That goes for most soft drinks in general. My younger brother loves it too, & he was glad to find some at the military bases in Germany when he was on his mission.
My TBM g-grandmother (she died many years before I was born), would brew rootbeer in the Summer, & my mom told me that she was told by her mom that one year some bottles went "bad", meaning they turned into alcohol. I laughed hard at that one.
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