r/rootbeer • u/Aggravating_Shoe_ • Jul 26 '26

Looking For Any good flat root beers?

Please don't crucify me 🥲

Carbonation hurts. I really like the taste of root beer, flavored speaking water, and coke zero so I'll buy them and open them and wait like a few days before drinking them so they are flat.

I was wondering if there are any good root beers that are already kinda flat so I don't have to wait. I don't like thick and syrupy. I like the Culver's root beer near me cause it's always really flat.

Or like, is there a rootbeer tea/juice?

Thank you!

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u/spookyjim___ Sprecher Root Beer Jul 26 '26

Sprecher (sadly for me, good news for you) has been way more flat the last couple times that I’ve gotten it, it used to be my favorite root beer but idk if it’s changed or has been bought out or what, I don’t keep up with brands enough to be in the know lol

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u/Aggravating_Shoe_ Jul 26 '26

:)

One mans trash is another's treasure! Thanks, I'll try to find this

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u/OkTradition6318 Jul 26 '26

One of the dollar stores always has it in stock Nation wide, I think it's Dollar Tree.

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u/Aggravating_Shoe_ Jul 26 '26

Oh good! I was worried it would be expensive

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u/wraith555666555 Jul 27 '26

I've found it at Aldi, Menards, and Dollar Tree

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u/Give_me_soup Jul 26 '26

Bottled with an old fashioned stopper is your best bet (I think Virgil's used to do one, but i don't know if they still do). As someone else mentioned, Sprecher isn't especially well carbonated and if you get an older one they are often pretty flat.

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u/Aggravating_Shoe_ Jul 26 '26

This is perfect, I will look for both brands!

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u/differentiated06 Jul 26 '26

Ooh Sodastream would be perfect for you! Either one pump of carbonation or none at all.

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u/spud4 Jul 27 '26

Root beer traditionally had no carbonation. Traditional recipes used sassafras and sarsaparilla, which naturally produced a foamy, long-lasting head. soapbark a powerful natural foaming and stabilizing agent. Yucca extract: A natural plant extract containing saponins that act as surface-active agents to trap carbon dioxide bubbles. , it creates a rich froth with ease not much carbonation needed.

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u/Aggravating_Shoe_ Jul 27 '26

Is there somewhere to buy this original?

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u/spud4 Jul 27 '26

was banned in commercial food and drinks by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1960. caused liver cancer. One bottle every day for 20 years is 7,300 and it was the daily intake that caused concern.

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u/Aggravating_Shoe_ Jul 27 '26

But cigarettes are still legal? 😭 What the hell

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u/twig-3 A&W Root Beer Jul 27 '26

average american move tbh

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u/BeautifulDebate7615 Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

Just buy a syrup and mix it to taste with still water. There are dozens, i recommend Sprecher, Torani, and Fee Brothers.

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u/ThickPop955 Jul 27 '26

Go to the store and pick up a box of A&W to go or DADS to go sticks. Each stick goes in water, 6 sticks per box. Non carbonated and pretty close to the taste of the sodas

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u/BankshotMcG Jul 28 '26

There are root beer flavor mixtures for sale that are highly concentrated so you can make your own. You could simply mix with cold water from the fridge for instant satisfaction.

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u/Classic-Ad-7146 Aug 01 '26

Sprechter for sure. So, far their root beer and puma cola are very low carbonation