Where’s the root beer
A reader emailed me the other day asking if I knew about a place in the Golan Heights that makes root beer. She told me that she has a friend coming to the Golan, and remembers when she herself was on a trip here around 15 years ago; she went to a ranch here and had some tasty root beer.
Now, I love root beer, the indescribable non-alcoholic beverage, but unfortunately, my travels have not taken me to this ranch – although it sounds amazing.
As a result of my unfamiliarity, instead sending her directions to Ranch Root Beer, I wrote back to her about the Golan Brewery, which for those keeping track have recently begun bottling their non-pasteurized beer in swing top bottles.
So has anyone heard of a place to get homemade root beer in the Golan?
9 comments:
Any Golan Birch Beer??
--- Aryeh
Don't know about root beer in the Golan but I really can recommend the the Golan Brewery. Friends from Ein Zivan took me there while I was visiting in May and both the food and the beer where great. Large portions of good food and delicious beer; can live be any better?
Shalom from Sweden!
I've been waiting to see if anyone had a suggestion ... I'm a HUGE Root Beer fan. To the point that when I go back to the states next time I may pick up the fixin's to make root beer at home (I'm told it isn't hard).
If you ever find an Israeli source for Root Beer... let me know.
Thanks
I don't know where to get root beer ANYWHERE in this country.
Well seems there might be a business opportunity here? SO whats it going to be 3G's Ginger Beer?
Go Golan Ginger Beer even sounds nice?
regards Mr Bagel
Are you talking about beer??? the world is talking about peace..we need it, we want it, more than beer, promise. Paz para la Palestina.
Okay... so I found out where the root beer is. There's a kibbutz called Merom Golan and they have a ranch-style restaurant. I'm told it is not under the supervision of the Golan Heights Kashrut committee, so if this applies to you, please inquire first.
Trep - I'll assume if you do get a root beer maker, I'll read about it on your blog. So I'm looking forward to that day.
Anonymous - This is an open discussion. And being open, I have received nagative comments in the past. The only thing I ask is to sign off with a name. Look above and you'll see that there was another Anonymous post, but it ended with the person's name. Peace to the ENTIRE WORLD.
Are you talking about beer??? the world is talking about peace..we need it, we want it, more than beer, promise. Paz para la Palestina.
Claudia
Thanks Claudia,
When you talk about peace, I'm not sure if you're referring to only the Palestinian issue or the Golan, too, because that I think everyone would agree upon that it is not a Palestinian issue.
So in terms of the Golan, I would like to remind you that the "Syrian Golan" is not some majestic land that has been a part of the Syrian people for countless centuries. No, it has not.
In fact, the name Golan comes from the Bible - the Jewish Bible. It was a Jewish city of refuge in the area of Bashan, which belonged to the tribe of Jewish tribe of Menashe.
When the French Mandate officially ended in April 1946, only then did the Syrians control the Golan, and that lasted until June 1967. 21 years and two months. That's it. Since then, for the past 40 years, it has been reinstated as the Israeli Golan. That's right, in contemporary times it has been in Israeli hands for nearly twice as long as it was Syrian.
And look what we've done in this time. We've planted crops, cultivated vineyards which have produced excellent wine, and we have even made beer - yes, beer. But do you know what we haven't done - we haven't used the area to attack Syria, which is something they did to us pre-1967.
So let's live in peace, side-by-side.
Regards,
Shmuel
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