For years, I’ve been wanting to add up all the brands of Root Beer I have consumed, but I knew it would be a large investment of time that I just wasn’t willing to do because, you know, it’s just a list of Root Beers and I do have other things to do in life.
But with AI, my dreams are now possible. I asked AI to give me a list of all the currently produced Root Beers, not all Root Beers because, as you know, there are over 3,100 already listed at Root-beer.org. Of course, AI needed some additional prompting, but I finally got a list of 300 brands of currently brewed bottles of liquid wonder.
Phase two was to pare down that list to those brands I have personally consumed. Some brands I remembered by the brand name, I also reviewed my photo library for pictures of additional brands, and finally, I joined the Root Beer Nation group on facebook and I was able to see many posted brands that stoked my memory of brands I have consumed but forgot about.
All that to say, I’m up to #86 and can’t wait to get to #100. I’m thinking about how to celebrate #100? What special brand should that one be? Right now, I’m thinking about the original Hires Root Beer. Hires is considered to be the original modern produced Root Beer that started all others. It may be out of production; if so, I’ll be looking for an original recipe and a home Root Beer kit to possibly make my own. We’ll see what happens.
