Tommyknockers (root beer)
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Tommyknockers is the name of a brewery currently located in Idaho Springs, Colorado
. Tommyknockers is best known for their beer
and flavored root beer
, made with distinctive ingredients such as mountain cherry, mountain maple and valerian root. Tommyknockers distributes their products across the United States and Canada.
During the Colorado gold rush of 1859, Idaho Springs became a popular location for mining, and the Tommyknocker Brewing Company was established to meet the needs of the large number of prospectors. The town today is home to 1,800 people, with the brewery conducting business nation-wide.
, a mythical elf-like creature who was said to live in the cracks of mines. Some of miners said that they could hear the tommyknockers singing and working deep in the dark mine shafts and cracks within the walls. Two legends of the tommyknocker were brought to the United States
by immigrants from Cornwall, England. One kind was mischievous, who dumped out the miners' lunches, blew out their candles, and hid their picks and axes on them. The other kind were friendly and were said to knock on the walls of the mines to show where the richest deposits of gold were.
Tommyknockers have won numerous awards in their beer, and their root beer has also won various prizes from around the nation in contests, and beverage studies.
, Barq's
and Tommyknockers. Tommyknockers was judged to have an average taste, however, they graded the root beer 2.67 points in the first round. The other root beers in the showoff were rated: Faygo (3.24), Pirate's Keg (2.93), Stewart's (2.90), Dad's (2.74), Big Shooter / Dog-n-Suds / Virgil's (2.67), and Route 66 (2.17), and Natural Brew (2.10). With a score of 2.67, Tommyknockers finished in fourth place out of eight. http://www.delicioussparklingtemperancedrinks.net/rbeer/index.html
Idaho Springs, Colorado
The City of Idaho Springs is a municipality in the U.S. state of Colorado that is the most populous settlement in Clear Creek County, Colorado. Idaho Springs is located in Clear Creek Canyon, in the mountains upstream from Golden, some thirty miles west of Denver...
. Tommyknockers is best known for their beer
Beer
Beer is the world's most widely consumed andprobably oldest alcoholic beverage; it is the third most popular drink overall, after water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and fermentation of sugars, mainly derived from malted cereal grains, most commonly malted barley and malted wheat...
and flavored root beer
Root beer
Root beer is a carbonated, sweetened beverage, originally made using the root of a sassafras plant as the primary flavor. Root beer, popularized in North America, comes in two forms: alcoholic and soft drink. The historical root beer was analogous to small beer in that the process provided a drink...
, made with distinctive ingredients such as mountain cherry, mountain maple and valerian root. Tommyknockers distributes their products across the United States and Canada.
History
Tommyknocker Brewing has been in existence since 1859, and has continuously produced a variety of soft drinks including sodas (root beer), bottled water, and beers. Today, their two highest-selling products are their beers and root beer.During the Colorado gold rush of 1859, Idaho Springs became a popular location for mining, and the Tommyknocker Brewing Company was established to meet the needs of the large number of prospectors. The town today is home to 1,800 people, with the brewery conducting business nation-wide.
Availability
Tommyknockers products are sold in select stores in the United States and Canada, as well as online from the company website.Old Tommyknocker
The company name comes from the tommyknockerTommyknocker
Tomasso Marra , best known as Tommyknocker, is a Hardcore producer and DJ.-Career:Tommyknocker began his career in 1995 when he began performing in some Underground parties organized in Rome....
, a mythical elf-like creature who was said to live in the cracks of mines. Some of miners said that they could hear the tommyknockers singing and working deep in the dark mine shafts and cracks within the walls. Two legends of the tommyknocker were brought to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
by immigrants from Cornwall, England. One kind was mischievous, who dumped out the miners' lunches, blew out their candles, and hid their picks and axes on them. The other kind were friendly and were said to knock on the walls of the mines to show where the richest deposits of gold were.
Achievements
Tommyknockers root beer has a distinct flavor in comparison to other root beers, attributable to the unique ingredients used in its creation, including mountain cherry, mountain maple, valerian root, fenugreek, St. John's wort, melissa, birch, licorice root, hops extract, malt extract, and maple syrup.Tommyknockers have won numerous awards in their beer, and their root beer has also won various prizes from around the nation in contests, and beverage studies.
The Showdown
On March 18, 2001, six researchers tested, tasted, and compared seven different types of root beer that were produced all throughout the nation, such as IBC Root BeerIBC Root Beer
The Independent Breweries Company was a syndicate founded in St. Louis, Missouri by the combination of Griesediecks' National Brewery, Columbia , the Gast brewery in Baden, A.B.C., and Wagner Brewing Company. This combination was ill fated due to high overhead with too many executives and low...
, Barq's
Barq's
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and Tommyknockers. Tommyknockers was judged to have an average taste, however, they graded the root beer 2.67 points in the first round. The other root beers in the showoff were rated: Faygo (3.24), Pirate's Keg (2.93), Stewart's (2.90), Dad's (2.74), Big Shooter / Dog-n-Suds / Virgil's (2.67), and Route 66 (2.17), and Natural Brew (2.10). With a score of 2.67, Tommyknockers finished in fourth place out of eight. http://www.delicioussparklingtemperancedrinks.net/rbeer/index.html