My root beer has been in bottle a couple of weeks now, and I keep hoping it’ll get better.  But it doesn’t.  It actually seems to get worse. 

There is good news, though.  It’s so heavily carbonated by now that half of each bottle fizzes out when you open it.  Which only leaves half to be poured down the drain.

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