Another happy Saturday night. It was my very first time to hang out with friends at Rock Bottom. Being a home animal, I can never figure out what to order and always feel like a loser when facing a menu. Following Tianyi’s advice, the girl I trust so much, I just said “same here” when she told the overly-tanned waitress “root beer”.

A guy sniffed at our choices, “That sucks! It tastes like cough syrup!” Wait wait wait… isn’t it a beer? How come a beer has a flavor of cough syrup? This was later proven the silliest question I asked that night.
Root beer is not really a beer. Indeed, it is “a sweetened, carbonated beverage originally made using the root of a sassafras plant (or the bark of a sassafras tree), with sassafras as the primary flavor.” In short, root beer is a kind of soft drink brewed from plants. Well, about its flavor… You can have a try yourself if possible.

It’s hard to believe that there are 2,260 brands of such a kind of yucky beverage. If you are curious about root beer, check this out: root beer world. Good place where you can learn about the history of root beer. If interested, you can follow the recipes to get some home-made. Good luck!!!

Oh…almost forgot…want to play a game in which working as a cool bartender serving never-give-tip customers with root beer? Have fun with the Root Beer Tapper!