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27 January 2004: "(Root) Beer"

I'm not ending the evening on that last entry, so I'm going to blog about something completely trivial: beverages!

Henry Weinhard's is a fairly popular brand of beer around these parts. The company makes a couple of varieties, and it is regarded as a "craft brew"; it's too mass-produced—and aimed at too large a market—to be a microbrew, but then again, it's a lot cheaper as well. And it's still way better than any American mass-market beer I know of. Strange then, that the company doesn't have a website. (I just feel I should put a link there, but obviously that's impossible.)

I've been drinking their beers for over a year now, so perhaps it's strange that I hadn't tried their root beer until last week. Yeah, I like root beer. I understand that's an unusual trait in a European, most of whom are of the opinion that root beer tastes like mouthwash, but I do. Anyway, it's pretty good stuff. In fact, I bet you could get into an argument in a local bar over which is better, Weinhard's or Thomas Kemper (which does have a website, as you can see). This guy is pretty unequivocal: Weinhard's leads the field in his ratings. Still, I have an emotional connection to TK, because Carolyn and I had a keg of it at our wedding.

A-ha. Checking some more of Spike's reviews, I see wintergreen is one of the flavours in root beer. That explains the mouthwash association, I suspect.

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