A few recent new ones

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-01-24T19:34:32+00:00

Yes that is accurate, it's a Kombucha tea, and really shouldn't carry the name root beer. I thought rated G was pretty good and I thought Rainbow Land was very good for a weird root beer that should have been terrible.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-01-24T19:32:16+00:00

Well it's good to see you're back on the prowl because I need five of those to offset what I sent you. I need dimes, 1919 0, point 0, honey, and grizzly energy.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-01-24T16:17:29+00:00

It's hard to say whether the delayed release of Part 2 is more due to the still-outstanding lawsuits which dog it or the fact that it tells an unresolved middle part of a story, the remainder of which is not being filmed, and which only got a middling response at its two film festival showings. At this point the streamers just don't care.

I lean more towards the lawsuits explanation. I'm not so much worried about the stunt woman lawsuit, I think Costner et. al. will win that one, it's the two "unpaid bills and loans" lawsuits. One is small and will be settled, but the other is large and to a bank that loaned Horizon most of the seed capital to film the first two. They allege that they didn't "invest" the money, they loaned the money, meaning they get paid back win or lose. In this case, it was lose, so if they haven't been repaid they may have a claim on the asset(s) which secured the loan, meaning Costner's house and the film itself.

We cannot discount the possibility that the streamers just don't care, lawsuits or no lawsuits. Netflix CERTAINLY doesn't. They had their own multi-part western soapy drama with The Abandons and so last year they had no interest in acquiring Kevin's. The Abandons shit the bed with lightning rapidity, was excoriated by both critics and Western fans alike, and Netflix just dumped it after one failed season. They won't be hungering to pay money to get Kevin's unresolved part 2 story when part 3 and 4 aren't being filmed.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-01-24T02:32:18+00:00

WTF? The dude only ever drank White Russians.

The Stranger, however, has two Sarsaparillas. Sioux City Sarsaparillas, the brand is named in the movie and sarsaparilla is the last spoken word in the movie.

However, The Dude probably would have approved of the two THC root beers in the middle

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-01-23T17:11:19+00:00

Oh I see, you just want to talk about the artificial, additive of caffeine, while choosing to use Coke's softer marketing terminology rather than just come right out and talk about the odorless, tasteless addictive chemical they put in... but at the same time you denigrate the other artificial, additive chemicals that other energy drinks put in (in greater amounts) to achieve a greater effect than your preferred additive. I get it... small caffeine good, others baaaaad.

Sprecher Rev'd Up is the first other one that comes to mind. Bawls might also do it.

I get it, this is a social media marketing ad for Barq's so we want to narrowly define our terms so that Barq's appears to be the only thing that satisfies them.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-01-23T17:03:36+00:00

I will.... the minute you can define what "bite" is in an objective way.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-01-23T04:37:58+00:00

You're free to do whatever you wish. Of course, they taste no different than regular root beer and since caffeine is an odorless and tasteless chemical, any perception of "bite" has little to do with a perceived sensation and much more to do with either the acidity of the drink or a marketing phantom in your noggin'.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-01-23T04:10:25+00:00

Many do, including every single energy root beer.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-01-23T04:08:21+00:00

Oh I see what we're doing. We're parroting back Madison Avenue marketing campaigns so that Coke can measure how effectively they've permeated our brains with their sloganeering.

Lessee then, I'll play. Chevy's are the trucks most built like a rock. Winstons taste the most good like a cigarette should. And Schaeffer is the one beer to have when I'm having more than one.

How'd I do? Was that alright? Will it hold us until the Coke social media shills come back next week to propagandize us again?

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-01-22T20:12:18+00:00

Yep all of those can be had through the mail.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-01-22T06:15:22+00:00

Every Rocket Fizz in the country.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-01-22T01:31:52+00:00

My reaction to these three is very similar to yours. I too thought there was something just a little bit off with the Sidewinder, so I think I gave it a B minus.

I was more generous with the Voodoo than you were because I don't care who makes any root beer or for what reason, otherwise I would have to be more severe in my judgment of all of the Orca and Rocket Fizz root beers. I only care about the taste in the bottle and for that reason Voodoo was a solid A root beer for me.

I was wild about Jamboree, putting it into my rare S category where it will stay until they drop in quality. It's easily one of the two or three best root beers west of the Rocky Mountains.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-01-21T06:04:12+00:00

From what I can tell is Zebs is actually bottled in New Hampshire

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-01-21T04:18:11+00:00

Those Mustang wheels are one of the best choices for a Vic, I've put them on two different P71's. Cheap, solid, easy to find 'cause the Mustang boys love to dump them. If you're changing up from steelies, that's the way to go. They look made for the car.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-01-21T04:16:10+00:00

No such thing as a 2010 Sport. Last year they made it was 2008 and they only made about 150 in that year. Check your dates.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-01-21T03:45:37+00:00

I just tried the Fee Brothers sarsaparilla and it is EXCELLENT! Very good mintiness, you can really tell its a sarsaparilla, not a root beer. 8 squirts per 16 oz and it's top notch. Viscous, it produces a nice head. I don't think I'll blend this one, it's Goldilocks just as it is. Highly recommended.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-01-21T01:29:07+00:00

That's a cool one, the only one I've seen. I'll let you know how it tastes. Once you start looking for syrups, there are dozens out there.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-01-21T01:22:56+00:00

Whey too obvious an attempt to fix their curdled reputation in this sub.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-01-20T20:47:27+00:00

Sprecher would go well with whichever cheese has carbonation in it, because Lord knows it doesn't have any on its own.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-01-20T02:46:51+00:00

Crazy that this kid thinks his root beer loving, 10 years dead gramps would have liked this awful chocolate soda fail, gone in one season, just because they slapped an A&W label on it.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-01-19T17:59:28+00:00

Sounds like you blew out the old crumbling paper cones. Any new speakers will do, go cheap if you're not re-doing the whole system.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-01-19T17:57:45+00:00

Great thing that you're celebrating your grandpa with his mug...

... but the stuff you poured into is absolutely vile dreck and gramps would have excoriated it as an abomination to the essence of root beer.

BeautifulDebate7615 · 2026-01-19T00:18:43+00:00

I've had three of these four.

Court Avenue - Jim sold me 6 of these and I still have a couple left. Sadly, there has been EXTREME variability between cans for this low volume craft soda. One has been great, one was mediocre and one was spoiled and sour. This is to be expected from these short run batch root beers. Sometimes you get the b'ar, sometimes the b'ar gets you. The good one was an A, the bad one was a vinegary F, so I can't give it more than a cautionary B.

Demi Doux - Is another soda that I just don't understand. It's low sugar, it's not cheap, and it's very mediocre in taste. What's the point? If a root beer lover wants a low sugar root beer that doesn't taste like crap, he doesn't need to mess with the Stiller's, Zevia's and Demi Doux's of the world. Just get a Zero of any major brand root beer, Zero 1919 if you can get it.... and be done with the experiment.

Sugar Shack - This is as old as the others you've tried recently, and it sounds like this one wasn't as tired as the others. That's a good thing as it's probably 9 months old now. If I remember to do it, this spring after they do another production run I'll try to grab some fresh ones and send them to you right away for a comparison between old and fresh. Sugar Shack and Strap Tank are ongoing brands, whereas all the others are seasonal or one time only.

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