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Description
Big, sweet, flavorful and old-fashioned!
Saint Arnold Root Beer is made with Imperial Cane Sugar
(absolutely no high fructose corn syrup), vanilla extract
and lots of yummy (but secret) flavorings. The cane sugar
gives it a sweetness and mouthfeel that cannot be achieved
through corn syrup. The flavors explode in your mouth.
The only way to improve on our Root Beer is to add a scoop
of vanilla ice cream!
Nutritional Information (12 fl oz finished drink)
Calories: 164
Total Carbohydrates: 42.5 g
Sucrose: 42.0 g
Simple Sugars: 0.5 g
Sodium: 60.0 mg
Dietery Fiber: 0.03 g
Calcium: 2.14 mg
Iron: 0.04 mg
Phosphorous: 0.4 mg
Potassium: 0.4 mg
Where to buy Saint Arnold Root Beer
Houston:
Saint Arnold Brewery
Central Market
The Flying Saucer (draft)
Kroger (43rd & Ella, Wirt Road, and various locations)
Goode Company Restaurtants
Han's Bier Haus
Boondoggles
Rice Epicurean
The Ginger Man (draft)
Austin:
Grapevine Market
Farm 2 Market Grocery
Ginger Man (on tap!)
Central Market-Westgate
Farm to Market
Dog & Duck
Lovejoy's
Artz Rib House
Iron Works BBQ
Whip IN
Hoover's Cooking
Showdown
Riverside Chevron
Andice General Store
San Antonio:
Central Market
Select HEB stores
Chester's Hamburgers
Grapevine
Island Liquors
Texas Vinyards
Texas Wine Cellars -Fredricksberg
Texas Wines -Fredricksberg
Sliver Creek -Fredricksberg
The Alterdorf -Fredricksberg
Hannah's-Fredricksberg
Plateau Restaurant-Fredricksberg
Beeman's Liquor-Kerrville
Cowboy Steak House-Kerrville
Cafe 909-Marble Falls
Dallas:
WineStyles (Rowlett)
Central Market
S&K (in Plano)
History and Trivia
We noticed that we had a lot of families attending our tours with their children. As giving the kids beer, while legal in the state of Texas as long as they were with their parents, was frowned upon, we decided we needed an alternative. Root beer seemed like a fun idea.
And so the research began. Making root beer is much more of an immediate gratification process compared to beer. You heat up some water to dissolve the sugar, then you cool it down and add the root extracts. Most of the extracts are from real plants, but some, such as sassafrass, have pesky carcinogens in them and thus we opted to replace those with artificial flavors. We developed a good root beer base, but we wanted a great root beer so we started playing around with small amounts of other natural flavors. We finally found one that worked great and went with that. We could tell you what it is, but then we'd have to kill you. If we did tell you, you would immediately recognize it. Nobody has come up with it though without being prompted.
We use all cane sugar in our root beer which is stupidly expensive because of government controls on sugar pricing and imports. It creates a great mouthfeel to the root beer though and gives a much fuller sweetness than the thin sweet taste one gets with high fructose corn syrup.
We actually make no money on our root beer. We make it for fun and put no effort into selling it. Sales continue to climb on it even without our trying though. Oh well.
Strange fact: drinking root beer gives you very refreshing burps. It's the wintergreen.
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