One of my favorite video games of all time is Fallout: New Vegas. It’s an open-world role-playing game set in the area around a post-apocalyptic Las Vegas. There’s an omnipresent brand in the game called Sunset Sarsaparilla, which is a pre-apocalypse soda company. You collect bottle caps during the game (which are used as currency)…
There are two things that anyone who knows me can, with 0 hesitation, say that I love: root beer and pizza. Having one accompanied by the other is a recipe for success in my book. It’s possible to upgrade this experience, though, with a couple modifications: The root beer can come out of a draft,…
In a lot of ways, I’d probably say that I’m my mother’s child more than I am my father’s. That’s not to say I don’t take after my dad at all, just that I think my mom had a little more influence on me that he did. If you know that I grew up being…
On a vacation to Toronto to see one of my best friends and a couple incredible concerts, I was desperate to find a local soda. In a minuscule espresso bar, I found it. Babbling Brook’s Traditional Root Beer was being sold in a glass bottle at The Nugget Espresso Bar just down the street from…
(photo courtesy of Reading Soda Works & Carbonic Supply.) The moment I stepped into the Winona Lake Rocket Fizz’s root beer section, I was immediately drawn to the Reading Draft Root Beer. The label was gorgeously designed, tiptoeing the line between traditional and modern. My instinct has always been that if a soda’s label is…