Top Five Beverages

Ok, first real post, and it's a top five list that is in no particular order. Here goes:

1. IBC Root Beer
2. Orange Juice
3. Coca-Cola
4. Pearl Milk Tea
5. Apple Sidra

As you can see, I like soda. I crave its cool, bubbly, refreshing goodness. On a hot, sweltering day, nothing beats a cool can of the good stuff, not even ice cream.

To add some substance to this post, I will talk a little bit about root beer. But don't worry, eventually I will touch on each of the other beverages in future posts. See, like any good writer, I'm already planting the seeds for future topics.

Ok, root beer. I love root beer. I still remember back when I lived in New York and I had my first taste of root beer at a daycare, I thought it was the best thing ever. As it stands now, IBC Root Beer is my favorite. It has always been, dating back to middle school, but it was much more difficult (and expensive) for me to get, so it was actually rare for me to drink it. You might be thinking, it's probably just the glass bottle. Everything tastes better in a glass bottle. Ok yeah, the glass bottle is nice, keeps it cooler I think, than an aluminum can. But no that is not the reason alone.

Let me also mention some other root beers I like. I also like Barq's and A&W. I absolutely hate Mug. It's terrible. Really really terrible. I've largely drank Barq's and A&W all my life. I used to really like Barq's over A&W, because of its carbonation. It certainly seems more carbonated anyway. Eventually though, I grew to prefer A&W, because well, Barq's was just TOO carbonated and coke-like. And I really started to like the sweetness of A&W and how well it went with vanilla ice cream. Now, I'm an old fogey and everything tastes a little bit sweeter. Not the - I love life so everything is sweet kind of sweet. But more the - man, how much sugar is in this, it's TOO SWEET, I'm gonna get diabetes! kind of sweet.

IBC fits nicely between these two. It's nicely carbonated, but not TOO carbonated. It's sweet, but not TOO sweet. It's juuuuust right. It also comes in a glass bottle. And it sure is delicious when combined with ice cream. Now that I have something that resembles an income, I can afford to buy it at Target. So yeah, I always have some IBC in the fridge for when the craving hits.

(I don't claim to be a connoisseur of root beer as I don't go around trying homebrewed stuff. The realm of root beer I live in largely consists of the commercial products.)

Sidenote on root beer floats: Good root beer and cheap ice cream go the best together. The creamier the ice cream, the worse it is. I'm equating classy ice cream to creamy ice cream, and I'm actually not sure if that's a fair comparison. Anyway, point is: you don't need good ice cream to make a good float.