Lately I have been seeing a trend of brewing companies coming out with their own soft drinks. The latest soft drink I tried was from the Matt Brewing Company out of Utica, New York. Their line of soft drinks bare the name “Saranac 1888″. The first flavor I gave a try to was their root beer. The root beer came in a standard 12 oz brown glass bottle. Around the neck of the bottle was some information about this root beer. “In 1888, when our small brewery was founded, real rich creamy root beers were not uncommon. Thirty years ago, we brought this tradition back with the introduction of real brewery-fresh root beer on draft in our brewery’s 1888 tavern. Our Saranac root beer has been acclaimed by consumers from all 50 states and over 100 countries. We hope you’ll enjoy it too!”

I did indeed enjoy it! It has a great authentic root beer flavor with some creaminess to it. It was delicious to the very last drop. I don’t think it has the most foamy head, but that doesn’t really bother me here. It’s still among my top 5 root beers of all-time.

Where to Buy
Saranac soft drinks are available in these states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia. Click here for the company’s website for exact availability.

I bought mine at Walt Churchill’s Market (Maumee, OH)

Tomorrow night (Monday, March 21st), Alton Brown will host a brand new episode of Good Eats entitled “Don’t Be Chicken of Dumplings”. As the title would suggest he will be preparing chicken and dumplings. I am excited about this episode and will have a review of it on Tuesday morning. Tune in to Food Network at 8pm.

For all you Good Eats fans out there that have searching the web to find out whatever happened to episode the Curious Case of Curry that was suppose to air several weeks ago: Tonight I found out that that episode will be airing on Monday, March 29th at 8pm. It is suppose to include a history of curry. I do not know of any recipes that will be included as of this time. It should be interesting.