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Jane Austen was a great brewer of spruce beer. And apparently the British army in North America brewed their own.

http://www.janeausten.co.uk/spruce-beer/

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I've had birch beer years ago, but it was actually a soft drink.

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Yes ... but the British needed to be in their cups, in order to rape and pillage the colonists etc.

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I like root beer. :)

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I never could get past the fact that it tastes like TCP :lol:

I tried it many times when I first moved out but never could develop a taste for it. Cream Soda, on the other hand ...

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Pet peeve...picking up the kids drink instead of mine, taking a big glug expecting to taste coke or iced tea and getting a mouthful of root beer instead....:sick:

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I have developed a serious cream soda habit since being here. Doesn't do my teeth any good whatsoever - I have the diet version but have thin enamel on my teeth and am supposed to avoid fizzy drinks. But it's lovely stuff.

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I'm sure there's a way you can slam it down without it touching your teeth, if you're creative with how you drink it :D

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It's true it does, but I acquired a taste for it. :unsure: I actually first discovered it more than twenty years ago, and almost a decade before I met Mrs P or visited America, when I found it for sale in a small newsagent on Wigmore St in the West End of London.

It's not that bad, is it? ;)

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I had tried it in the UK as well when I was 7 or 8. Back in the 80s, my uncle was a salesman or marketing guy (or something) for a food distributor and he always had some weird and wonderful collection of sweets on the go. One of the things he had was cans of root beer, which he let us try.

I hated it back then, too :D

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Yeah, despite my taste for it, I'm not surprised it never caught on in the UK.

BTW. I think it tastes more like linament than TCP! :D

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Something along those lines. There's definitely a phenolic component in there somewhere.

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Ugh.. Root beer...

Weeeelll... We don't got nothing good, but we got these here roots.

We done tried eatin them already. They tastes like shit.

Weeeeelll... mebee we can make a drink out of 'em.

*mashes them up and bottles the juice*

Naaaww... Still tastes like shit... Ain't no one gonna pay for this.

Weeelll... lets call it beer.

Yeeaahh... That'll do it all right.


:sick:

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Perhaps so, ..... maybe by the descendants of the makers of dandelion and burdock? :confused:

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Just a little word of warning - before my MIL became totally unintelligible through Alzheiemer's, her only topic of conversation was which foods she did or didn't 'care for'.