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Blemheim (sp??) ginger ale is fan-efing-tastic.

 

Their ginger beer is pretty darn good too.......makes a Dark n Stormy really come alive.

Blenheim -- yeah, that stuff is wild. I can go for their regular ginger ale, but the hot stuff is more than I want to handle (and I love spicy stuff). My father is a major fan.

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The drink was developed in 1919 by the Schoenhofen Brewery of Chicago as a non-alcoholic product for the Prohibition era. It was popular for decades as a soda fountain syrup, trailing only Coca Cola in popularity. However, after Prohibition ended in 1933 the Schoenhofen Brewery made Green River a second priority to alcoholic drinks. The Brewery then closed in 1950. It was a fountain drink during the '60s in some drugstore fountains.

 

The drink is now produced by the Clover Club Bottling Corp. of Chicago. It is frequently marketed as a nostalgia item and can be found in some 1950s-themed restaurants, all Hackney's restaurants, or more generally in supermarkets during the days leading up to St. Patrick's Day.

 

The ingredients of the drink are: Carbonated water, high fructose corn sweetener, citric acid, natural lime oils, yellow #5, and blue #1. There is also a diet version, without sugar.

 

The name for the Creedence Clearwater Revival album Green River was inspired by the drink according to Tom Fogerty.

 

there was a local golf course my buddies and i would play on back in grade school/junior high...they had it on the fountain there. hard to explain what it tastes like, but it was awesome. it came back in two-liter format sometime in the 90's, but it wasn't the same.

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there was a local golf course my buddies and i would play on back in grade school/junior high...they had it on the fountain there. hard to explain what it tastes like, but it was awesome. it came back in two-liter format sometime in the 90's, but it wasn't the same.

 

 

I'll have to try some of the bottled variety.

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I also love root beer, and nothing was better than A&W in a frosted mug at the A&W resturaunt.

 

Not sure if they do that still anywhere....not by me..

 

 

I remember the drive ins. They trusted you to put the glass mug back on the tray.

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I also love root beer, and nothing was better than A&W in a frosted mug at the A&W resturaunt.

 

Not sure if they do that still anywhere....not by me..

 

I bought one of those last summer from an A&W place in Lake George, NY. When I looked at it a while later, I noticed some of the letters were coming off the glass.

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