Root Beer Tasting

Root Beer Fan Joined: Mar 12, 2007 Posts: 1

I'm new to this group, but am a big fan of Root Beer (and other soft beverages). I own Village Candy, just outside Pittsburgh PA, and just wanted to let everyone here know that we will be hosting a free root beer tasting in May to commemorate the development of root beer on May 16, 1866. Please contact me at villagecandy@verizon.net for further info.

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Thursday, May 17, 2007
By Gretchen McKay, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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"It's like wine," says Mr. Alpern, whose personal favorite is Abita Root Beer from Louisiana. ...

But then he's never even tried Rollie's root beer, from Holyoke, MA.

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Village Candy, 344 Beaver St., Sewickley, will host a root beer-tasting event from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Saturday. Tony Knipling from Vecenie Distributing will be serving samples of 1919 Classic American Draft Root Beer made at the Schell Brewing Co. in New Ulm, Minn., and someone from Hereford & Hops in Cranberry will be serving its house draft root beer, too.
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The place was packed, and everyone seemed to be enjoying themself. There were about ten brands on the counter for tasting, as well as the open tap of 1919. The 1919 seemed off to me, it had a distinct aftertaste of toasted marshmallow, which I have previously only experienced in Wegman's root beer. I lived in Minnesota for four years and remember 1919 being better than this.

The house brew from Hereford and Hops was pretty good.

I bought a bottle of Red Ribbon for tasting some other time. It is not as sweet as many of the other root beers present, so is difficult to compare without rinsing and spitting, etc.
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:27 am Post subject:

(From an e-mail)

Come to Our 2nd Annual Root Beer Sip-off
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Mark your calendars - Saturday, May 3, (2008) from 5:30 to 6:30 for our 2nd Annual Root Beer Sip-off.

Oh yeah, as a reminder - you MUST register ...Or you can just email Village Candy and put ROOT BEER as the subject. (e-mail same as in the opening post)
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:33 pm Post subject:

A reminder: the 2008 root beer tasting at Village Candy is this weekend, Saturday May 3.

That's in the Pittsburgh area.