It may be mass-produced, made with high fructose corn syrup instead of cane sugar, and sold in a can rather than a glass ...

These ginger beer bottles were all made in the pottery of A.W. Buchan in Portobello, near Edinburgh, Scotland. As you can see the bottles were used by companies all over the world, from Portobello ...

[Paul] is sick and tired of his homemade root beer being flat ... could have over or under carbonated bottles (or exploding bottles in the case of glass beer bottling). [Paul] himself has tried ...

It may taste a little like mouthwash (thanks to the inclusion of a flavoring called wintergreen), but there's something to be said for a tall, frosty root beer ... and A&W, now its own chain ...