Mug Root Beer

Description: Mug was first produced by the Belfast Beverage Company in San Francisco, California during the early 1950s. Its name ... more

Mug Root Beer ... was changed to Mug Old Fashioned Root Beer. In the late 1960s, Sugar Free Mug (now Diet Mug Root Beer) was introduced. Mug Cream Soda (and Diet Mug Cream Soda) was later introduced, but it is not as widely available. Mug was purchased by Pepsi in 1986. The Mug can features a bulldog holding a mug of root beer; on the Mug Root Beer website, there is a free online comic to view the dog's adventures.

Newest Review: ... the Belfast Beverage Company, which soon changed its name to Mug Old Fashioned Root Beer and began to ship the product around ... more

... the country. The company was bought by PepsiCo in 1986, and today they make both traditional root beer and cream soda. Appearance The bottle is a normal plastic fizzy drinks bottle, with a label bearing the word ‘MUG’ and the company’s logo – a dog holding a beer glass. Although it’s called root beer, the liquid actually looks like cola rather than beer – much darker and more syrupy-looking than even the darkest ale. Flavour The overpowering smell is aniseed, but with a slightly medicinal twist – kind of like Pep...more

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Mug Root Beer: Give Us A Mug of That (454 words)
by - written on 05/09/06 (Very useful, 196 readings)
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Root beer. It’s weird, it’s not available in Britain, it’s classically American...and it’s actually quite nice. While I was in America I stumbled across this (not that it was hard to stumble across it – it’s everywhere) and thought I’d try it. What is root beer? Root beer is a traditional herby drink originally brewed from roots and flavours such as liquorice, aniseed, vanilla and sarsaparilla. It’s most popular in America but you do see variations in England such as dandelion and burdock. Who are Mug? Mug Root Beer was started in San Francisco by the Belfast Beverage Company, which soon changed its name to Mug Old Fashioned Root ... Read the complete review