Another happy Saturday night to kill. It's my very first time to hang out with friends at Rock Bottom. Being a home animal [contrary to social/bar/party 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'd 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 Indeed, it is "a sweetened, carbonated beverage originally made using the root of a sassafras plant (or the bark of a sassafras tree), with sassafras as the primary flavor" [source]. To put it a simple way, root beer is a kind of soft drink brewed from some 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 kinda yucky [IMHO]beverage. If you wanna know more about root beer, check this out: root beer world. Good place where you may learn the history of root beer. If interested, you can get the recipes and home-make some. Good luck!!!

Oh yea...almost forget...wanna play a game as a cool [or may I say poor?] bartender serving never-give-tip customers with root beer? Have fun with Root Beer Tapper!