Got a taste for this root beer recently in a BBQ restaurant and it's really nice. The ginger beer is one of the nicest I've tasted too and both are good mixers with spirits.
Normally £4.49 and reduced by £1.50 in Tesco at the moment.
17 comments
CxWxP
13 Aug 162#1
Never thought of using this as a mixer! The root beer is really nice but tastes totally different to the american stuff
nannyhoo
13 Aug 161#2
Mmmm lovely. Though not as nice as Crabbies alcoholic ginger beer!
dcb01
13 Aug 161#3
IMO A&W's is better tasting like I remember it tasting when McDonalds used to sell it(last place I had it there was Angel Islington a few decades ago) .
Pref: 3rd Tropical Sun, 2nd Bunderburg, 1st by a long shot A&W
Kebabcasualty to dcb01
13 Aug 16#4
What does the A & W stand for? Will have to find some.
CxWxP
13 Aug 161#5
Allen and Wright. You should be able to find a can in any import candy shop
dcb01 to CxWxP
13 Aug 161#6
Or most Tesco's I've brought them for 90p a tin
Saint Nick to CxWxP
13 Aug 16#9
I thought A & W is banned from being imported now as it contains something that is against EU regs. Saw this on American Soda a wee while back. Haven't seen it in any local American shops.
I got some A & W in Chinatown that is imported from the Philippines or somewhere around there and maybe has different ingredients.
bluenosebignelly
13 Aug 16#7
IMO Bundies is the best NA Ginger Beer on the planet! Glug, glug, glug
snoopsi81
13 Aug 161#8
I have this with JD honey, tastes great. Trip to Tesco's tomorrow.
siroko to snoopsi81
13 Aug 161#11
Never tried the JD honey with root beer.. Might have ago at that.. I do really like the A&W stuff with regular JD tho.. Works so well together.. But only at Xmas cos it's not exactly a cheap combo! Wish the big supermarkets would get into stocking root beer.. Surely there's a market for it..
McNabFish
13 Aug 161#10
I love the root beer. Costco always have pallets of the ginger but never the root :disappointed: will have a lurk in tesco tomorrow!
Ross81
13 Aug 161#12
This stuff is great. Used to get cartons of bottles from Costco. Best Ginger Beer going, a proper brewed drink. Last time I had it, label said brewed in Australia, none of this made under licence rubbish
Chouman to Ross81
13 Aug 16#15
They did try to have it made under licence in Northern Ireland around 6/7 years ago. It used to be one guy who imported it from Oz based in Northumberland who tried to keep it as a niche product sold via wholesalers and only in Waitrose and Costco, but when the folks back in Oz were promised some serious volume through a specialist they dumped him with a promise of Tesco & Asda coming on board. They tried to then get it brewed in NI using syrup shipped over, but had to change the bottle from stubby to more traditional long neck. That had a huge effect on sales, so they went back to source and stubbies. Price has rocketed since then though.
Anyway, I'll weesht now!
joedastudd
13 Aug 161#13
Possibility the best ginger beer you can get at the moment.
xfirebladex
13 Aug 16#14
M&S sell a root beer in their soft drinks and cordials section that is pretty good based on my preferences for A&W and Barq's. It's pretty pricey at about £2 a bottle but the taste is pretty good. Sorry I can't remember the name, think it begins with B?
seanjames
14 Aug 16#16
ginger beer yes root beer tastes like germoline
fearghalg
14 Aug 16#17
Love Bundy ginger beer. Lovely with golden rum over ice. Also great with Tuaca and a squeeze of lime.
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Normally £4.49 and reduced by £1.50 in Tesco at the moment.
17 comments
Pref: 3rd Tropical Sun, 2nd Bunderburg, 1st by a long shot A&W
I got some A & W in Chinatown that is imported from the Philippines or somewhere around there and maybe has different ingredients.
Anyway, I'll weesht now!