Yeah, its… salty and bland. OK in the winter but otherwise not my taste.
I don’t know what I-35 is like these days but I used to do the Austin<–>Dallas run in about 140 minutes.
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Thanks, but unfortunately my time is not my own when I’m in Texas. (In so many ways, actually.)
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Sounds like a country song in the making!
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IH-35 is a slugfest-parking-lot-obstacle-course (thanks to NAFTA, we have trucks from Mexico running all the way to Canada) with a nice little speedtrap in Salado (that’s “suh LAY doh” y’all) and a kind of epic resurfacing job stretched out to the end of time, ala Boston’s Big Dig, that never seems to go away, it just moves a bit north or south. I can’t make it to Dallas from Austin in under 3 hours, really 4 hours is pretty normal. I can’t drive that aggressively with a highway that crowded, unless I dust off all my old Chicago driving skills and maybe gulp down a few espressos to speed my reflexes. I also tend to drive the speed limit though, these days…
ETA: typos! typos! arrrgh
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There’s an umami quality to it, with a decent balance between sweet, salty, acidic and basic. And it’s not that sweet… it doesn’t taste like Hawaiian Punch™ or Fanta. Definitely some local kombucha makers here make an almost kool aid flavor (Buddha’s Brew comes to mind).
@anon67050589 you’re welcome anytime… see you in the future, or I’ll see you in the pasture. 
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Wow I just learned something new…
in part, this:
“… The Ginger beer plant (GBP) is not what is usually considered a plant but a composite organism consisting of a fungus, the yeast Saccharomyces florentinus (formerly S. pyriformis) and the bacterium Lactobacillus hilgardii (formerly Brevibacterium vermiforme),[ may be obtained from several commercial sources or from yeast banks…”
Whoa cool. Will have to dig around for what these yeast banks are all about. The very idea intrigues me.
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In my mind, yes. Yes it does. Did I mention that the real “Bali High” features puh-lenty of volcanic islands and the music is good, too…
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Old Tyme is pretty common in quebec - I buy it from the grocery store down the street. I don’t think the US has any Canadian specialty grocery stores - no equivalent to chinatown but for Canada.
Your right that the logo has gone to hell. I think the bottle shape has changed too, but the flavor is still pretty similar to what I remember from back in the day.
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