Berghoff’s Root Beer makes a bold promise or two straight off the bat. It claims not only to be “Old-Fashioned” but also “Chicago Style”. A truly “Old-Fashioned” Root Beer would be one that is brewed and made with sassafras and other various roots/herbs/etc. As for what defines a “Chicago Style” root beer, I couldn’t find…
Rosetta’s Kitchen is a delicious vegetarian/vegan restaurant in Asheville, North Carolina. On a recent sojourn to the South, my youngest brother introduced me to this fine establishment. My general rule of thumb is: if there’s a craft soda on the menu, I’m going to order it. I’m not quite sure how much this fits as…
Dr. Enuf is a Johnson City tradition. I’ve spent a decent amount of time in Johnson City, but somehow I’ve never tried Dr. Enuf. My brother-in-law has described it as being very sweet, the bottle says that it’s the “Original Energy Booster”. It has two different types of Vitamin B in it, which is not…
Diet Soda #2! What a world this is. Zevia is a pretty regularly available soda brand, typically found in the “natural” area of your local super grocery. I’ve had Zevia’s root beer before, and it’s pleasant. Speaking on a personal level (as I often do on this blog), I’m a big fan of Stevia as…
Here it is! The final soda of the trip that started this blog. Another incredibly designed logo grabbed my eye, this time it was Nichol Kola. Nichol Kola is apparently America’s Taste Sensation! My cursory googling leads me to believe it was a pre-WWII cola from Baltimore, sold initially for, you guessed it, a nickel.…
This is a first for the Narvar Soda Review blog, a diet soda! At the end of a grueling work day, I wanted nothing more than a sweet kick o’ the tasty soda pop. Well, maybe a good week-long vacation, but, y’know, capitalism. I stopped in at one of the Mega Grocer’s stores after work…
If you’ve paid some attention, might know that I have a habit of picking sodas based on their labels. This is another situation where that happened! The label for Avery’s Root Beer is excellently designed and jumped out at me immediately. I’d also say that it gives me a certain amount of confidence when I…
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…