Chug's Root Beer and More

Image: Kathryn DiFranco
Tucked away in the corner of a vast parking lot—the kind that widely stretch along sprawling suburban thoroughfares—next to a roller rink and a shop to score cash for gold lives Chug’s Root Beer and More (the more: a myriad of other specialty sodas). Inside this wood-paneled soda emporium: “the world's largest selection of root beer” ever to reside within a brick and mortar. David Castle presides over his bottle shop and taproom, dispensing pours of draft root beer from a couple of taps, craft floats, and reciting which root beer kids will love or hate, rattle off a few greatest hits, tell you which are anise-forward and which taste like a root beer float in a bottle—it’s Frostie. Grab a single bottle, a six-pack, or fill a growler of the good stuff to go.