Comments on: Germans hate Root Beer

By: Brigitte

Brigitte — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:16:03 +0000

I am German and love root beer and, especially, root beer floats (with butter pecan ice cream…. yumyumyum). I can relate to all that yuck-root-beer on here however… when it comes to birch beer. Once a year, at the Pennsylvania Dutch Festival (Dutch as in Deutsch), that is about as much birch beer as I can stomach. Talk about wintergreen… cough medicin with toothpaste… ewwwwwwww. By the way, the coincidence of Root Beer Production beginning the year of the Prohibition is no coincidence at all… root beer was intended as a substitute.
With all of you regarding chocolate…. unfortunately, German choc is hardly ever available here (imported that is…. you don’t expect Guinness to be the same when it is produced in the USA either, now, do you?)

By: John

John — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:41:23 +0000

Ich möchte etwas klar darstellen: Root Beer ist KEIN Bier. Nochmal: Root Beer ist KEIN Bier und hat mit “Bier” überhaupt gar nichts zu tun und hat nichts gemeinsames mit Maltzbier außer Schaum und Wasser. Wer es “Root Beer” als “Malzbier” übersetzt, hat überhaupt keine Ahnung von Root Beer!

Man darf es also mit Vanilleeis damit essen weil sie sehr gut zusammenpassen. Root Beer ist süß und wird von Kindern sehr gern genossen.

Das Root Beer Geschmack von heute kommt nicht mehr von Sassafraswürzeln sondern von “Wintergreen” (Wintergrün). (Wenn man das erst weißt merkt man es auch beim Trinken)

Ich glaube man kann es auch bei Karstadt kaufen unter der Marke “Stars and Stripes”.

By: Mart

Mart — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:16:49 +0000

I love Root Beer, especially from a & w and im a german!!

By: FacePaint

FacePaint — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:24:50 +0000

Ditto doppelf’s statement on root beer.

It’s always interesting how much people reveal about their own socioeconomic backgrounds when they criticize other cultures.

By: doppelf

doppelf — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:52:22 +0000

I love root beer, but can only recommend gourmet types such as IBC, Henry Weinhard’s (they make beer, too, btw), and one I’ve only found on tap in Minnesota: 1919 (incidentally the year prohibition started). Most of the root beer at the supermarket is cheap and relies on excess sugar. In Portland, Oregon you can get ice cream made with porter. MMMMMM!!!

One last thing, deutsche Schokolade schmeckt am besten!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:54:25 +0000

Maybe it’s that little bit of German in me (I’m German, Polish, Italian, and Irish) that makes me hate really sweet things.

My friends think it’s weird that I can’t stand to eat triple layer chocolate cake because it’s too sweet.

And root beer tastes like the devil. (Random…I know.) ^_^’

By: Kat

Kat — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:34:46 +0000

In my 1 year of living in the US now, I have tried root beer once, out of being polite. Never again is all I can say. It just seems wrong to drink something that smells and tastes like something we Germans take rheumatism baths in (yes I also tasted one of those, don’t ask). Whenever my hubby gets an A&W root beer float, I wanna puke.

I also noticed the difference in taste btw. I find almost all candies to sweet, and what I miss most is distinctive, recognizable flavour. For Germans, at least after my experience, a candy needs something that makes it different from other candies, like marzipan flavour or different kinds of chocolate or cream filled pralinés. Over here, as stated by others, everything seems to be purely sugar flavoured, that’s it. Take “peeps” for example. Not only that they come in neon pink, neon yellow and purple (ewww!), they also only taste sweet, nothing special in them. Why you would raise children telling them that colourful, artificial looking sweets or food in general (purple cereals come to mind) taste good is a mystery to me. On the other hand, when my mum brought over a “Russischer Zupfkuchen” when she came to visit, everyone looked strangely at it cause it looked (original comment!) “too natural”…
I dunno, stuffing things into you where you don’t know at all what possibly in hell could have created the colour it’s in doesn’t seem smart to me.

Another thing I notice is, a lot of Americans don’t seem to like bitter taste. Whenever my husband for example only thinks of Schweppes Tonic (I made him taste it once), he is literally almost puking. I have not yet found someone who likes Tonic here, same goes for Blue Cheese and anything remotely bitter or sour. Weird. I think just sugary is kinda boring.

By: Dent

Dent — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:46:37 +0000

Thats just sick

By: Flo

Flo — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:28:57 +0000

thanks for that idea! mmmhh rootbier with icecream…

By: Lobo

Lobo — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:54:50 +0000

Hey !

I have no Problem with Root Beer, as long as i dont have to drink it !

Beer has to be a bit bitter, that is for sure.

So if you want to try real Beer, so drink Holsten, Jever or Flensburger and forget this sweet stuff.