We switch formats this week, becoming a serious root beer critique show. Ok, we also discuss TV and video games. And dinner. And death. And Thomas Edison. But mostly, it’s about the root beer. Enjoy!
QUESTIONS:
What is your most terrible memory? –Cawfee
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I love 1919. I always get a lot of juniper and wintergreen from it. Sprecher is good but I like their other offerings better. Cherry and regular (Puma) colas especially. And hyvee generic root beer is way better than it has any right to be.
Yes, wintergreen… I think I said peppermint in the podcast when I meant to say wintergreen.
Curse my addled brain!
I love Maine Root’s Ginger Beer.
I’ve wanted to try that, but I just can’t seem to pass up Reed’s Premium Ginger Brew when I’m in the mood for ginger ale.
Reed’s is too sweet for me. I also find Maine Root has much stronger ginger flavor. Growing up I loved Vernor’s ginger ale–which they have in the South but not up here in Boston. I think it also has a stronger ginger flavor than other other ginger ales.
My son has played the Dark Souls games and he says one of the reasons he especially likes them is that they have an immersive quality, not because of narrative, but because you have to keep coming back and learning how to defeat a particular enemy–a kind of training that the difficulty is key to (the fights becoming easier as you learn something each time you’re defeated). That’s a kind of video game paradigm really, but more in evidence in those games, so he says they are less like a book or a movie experience and more a paradigmatic game experience.
I sat with my father-in-law as he was dying. I actually found it helped me with the grieving process.
Tony – I’m with you, in my youth, I could have blind tasted and told you which root beer brand was which. Now I don’t waste my time with the kinds I don’t like. A&W works as a mass-offering (though on tap is better than canned), and Sprecher is alright. I don’t try many others lately because I don’t drink much soda at all anymore.
Did you intend the pun on the elephant “piece de resistance” in the Edison electrical demonstration?
I did not intend it. But it’s a pretty good one, so I’ll take credit for it! 🙂
Tony – I’m with you, in my youth, I could have blind tasted and told you which root beer brand was which. Now I don’t waste my time with the kinds I don’t like. A&W works as a mass-offering (though on tap is better than canned), and Sprecher is alright. I don’t try many others lately because I don’t drink much soda anymore.
Did you intend the pun on the elephant “piece de resistance” in the Edison electrical demonstration?
Pre-listening note: In a random quirk of fate, my office is doing a potluck today and my team brought in a keg of Millstream Root Beer for the drinks. 😀
Maine Root, Root Beer: I don’t know that I would call that brand all that “super, craft hippie”.
Root Beer + Lemonade: That sounds awful.
Self-serve soda: Suicide/zombie?
Three wishes: Isn’t this just begging people to hide outside your house on full moons to see if they can catch it and hence get their wishes?
Harry Potter: The books were definitely better than the movies.
Fantastic Beasts: I found it better than average for the Harry Potter films. Did it really add anything? Eh, like Tony mentioned it filled in some details. Does it add anything new for people not already interested? No. If you are a fan of the series, then it was a good time.
Questions for TMTH: Umm yeah, I guess I’m working on that? I’ll try to make sure I email in something other than 30 inconsequential questions but not too long to fix on an index card. I’ll even be so bold as to pledge to send in such a question by the time I’ve gotten caught up listening.