Myers Avenue Red Root Beer

A fellow Loud Bassoon staffer pegged this one well by calling it "a very beer-like root beer." It's a real old-school beverage, complete with faux prospector-deed packaging and coming from a brewery that calls itself "The Cripple Creek Mountain Gold Mining Company."

Although this would almost immediately cause it to be Garrison Kellior's favorite drink, I will not knock it down simply by association. It's a fine, solid root beer, smooth and slightly creamy. The only real problem with it is you can't remember later how it actually tastes, even though while you're drinking it you think it's heavenly.

Beverage companies are so ferocious about being futuristic (a la Orbitz) or nostalgic (a la Myers Avenue Red). Where is the beverage of the now? Oh right, it's water.

Review by Pete Priney