Using frosted mugs

[JosephStalin]

Got some nice glass mugs last week. Thought I'd recreate the childhood experience of going to A&W Root Beer and enjoying root beer in a frosted mug. Put the mugs in the freezer overnight. Next day poured a cold can of A&W Root Beer into a mug. Whoa! Just like when I was a kid.

Today wanted to see if I could get the same effect with a soda other than root beer. Poured a cold RC Cola into a frosted mug. Not the same at all. Mug warmed up faster than with root beer. No ice formed in the cola.

Only thing I can think of is that root beer is made differently than cola.

Believe I'll be drinking more root beer in the future. Will try pouring a non-alcoholic beer into a frosted mug, see how that works. Don't drink alcoholic beverages.

 

[Too Many Catgirls]

I wonder if birch beer would work.

 

[Demonslayer1776]

I love drinking my beer out of chilled mugs. Makes it very refreshing

 

[JosephStalin]

I wonder if birch beer would work.

Surely worth a try.

Got the mugs on Amazon. Pack of four cost just under $20 delivered.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I've done that with both root beer and actual beer before, but not in a while.

 

[Jason Wynn]

I do that with regular beer. My dad got me a frosted Guinness mug a few years back I still use.

 

[Strange Wilderness]

I've done that with both root beer and actual beer before, but not in a while.

I do that with regular beer. My dad got me a frosted Guinness mug a few years back I still use.

How did actual beer work for you? I once tried mixing half real beer half root beer and I thought it wasn't that good. What about using Not Your Fathers Root Beer? Has anyone tried that to make a root beer float with alcoholic root beer?

 

[Dom Cruise]

How did actual beer work for you? I once tried mixing half real beer half root beer and I thought it wasn't that good. What about using Not Your Fathers Root Beer? Has anyone tried that to make a root beer float with alcoholic root beer?

Sorry, I think you misunderstood me, I wasn’t saying that I’ve mixed root beer and regular beer, just that I’ve drank root beer out of a frosted glass and regular beer out of a frosted glass separately.

I’ve not tried not your fathers root beer nor that as a root beer float, both sound interesting though.

 

[Marissa Moira]

If you want it to form little ice crystals you're going to want to use regular Coke for cola when you do that. Coke still uses phosphates for carbonation.

 

[XYZpdq]

How did actual beer work for you? I once tried mixing half real beer half root beer and I thought it wasn't that good. What about using Not Your Fathers Root Beer? Has anyone tried that to make a root beer float with alcoholic root beer?

I haven't tried those alcoholic root beers. I was under the impression they're just cheap generic root beer with a shot of grain alcohol or something.