{"id":400,"date":"2006-09-24T23:39:28","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T09:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2006\/09\/24\/ibc-root-beer-32-ounces\/"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:23:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T06:23:40","slug":"ibc-root-beer-32-ounces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2006\/09\/24\/ibc-root-beer-32-ounces\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: IBC Root Beer (32-ounces)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IBC<\/a><\/p>\n

Sometimes I like to be an old-fashioned kind of guy.<\/p>\n

Not in the sense of opening doors for women, saying please or thank you, or offering my seat to an elderly person on the bus. In all those instances, I’m an asshole.<\/p>\n

The old-fashioned I’m talking about is occasionally putting on my acid-washed jean shorts, Hypercolor<\/a> t-shirt, a pair of British Knights<\/a> shoes, and listening to C+C Music Factory<\/a> on my Sony Walkman cassette player<\/a> with auto-reverse, while playing Sonic the Hedgehog on a Sega Genesis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Editor’s Note: For the convenience of TIB’s younger readers, who weren’t born when many of these things came out, I have added Wikipedia links to explain them, except acid-washed jean shorts because there’s no Wikipedia entry for them and I’m ashamed that I actually wear acid-washed jean shorts.)<\/small><\/p>\n

When I’m bored and lonely in my apartment, I like to get really old-fashioned and put on a pair of polyester bell bottoms<\/a>, a tie-dye<\/a> t-shirt, a pair of platform shoes<\/a>, and an afro wig, while listening to disco music<\/a> on an 8-track player<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Editor’s Note: To TIB’s middle-aged readers: I’m not saying you’re really old in any way, shape, or form, even though I did say “really old-fashioned.” When I said “really” I really meant it in terms of prestige and not in terms of time.)<\/small><\/p>\n

I’m just as old-fashioned as this 32-ounce bottle of IBC Root Beer in its amber-colored glass bottle, but not as dark, curvy, or satisfying. It’s old-fashioned because it’s been around since 1919 and was introduced during Prohibition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Editor’s Note: To TIB’s younger readers: If you’re too lazy to click the Wikipedia link above, Prohibition was a time from 1920 to 1933 when it was illegal to produce, sell, or transport alcohol in the United States, but drinking it wasn’t illegal. If any of your great, great, great grandparents are still alive, you should ask them about it.)<\/small><\/p>\n

Anyway, I’ve been drinking so many of these 32-ounce bottles of IBC Root Beer recently that if they were actually bottles of alcoholic beer I would probably be doing some crazy, possibly illegal stuff like tipping cows, sucking on a cow’s udder, sticking my arm into a cow to help it give birth to a calf, or paying $150 for small slab of Kobe beef<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Personally, IBC Root Beer is better tasting than the highly-distributed Barq’s and A&W root beer, but I’ve also tasted better root beers than the IBC one. It’s got a nice spiciness to it, it made a great root beer float, and it comes in a big 32-ounce bottle. Of course, the big bottle means I can pour one for myself and then pour some out for my dead homies, because I’m old-fashioned like that.<\/p>\n

Item:<\/b> IBC Root Beer
\nPrice:<\/b> $1.49 (32-ounces)
\nPurchased at:<\/b> Safeway
\nRating:<\/b> 8 out of 10
\nPros:<\/b> Tastes great. Big 32-ounce glass bottle. Cheap. Great for root beer floats. Darker, more curvy, and more satisfying than I am. Being an old-fashioned guy.
\nCons:<\/b> Not less filling. No caffeine. Drinking the entire bottle in one sitting is bad due to high sugar content. I’m as asshole. Prohibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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