Uncle Dave, regarding your mysterious brewmeister. I was going to shout out "Barq's, he must be talking about Barq's!" which is a good rootbeer made perhaps in the deep South. But when you said it was only sold on draft, well, that scotched Barq's.

We do have a little chain of burger restaurants called "Ward's" which sells ootbeer in thick iced glass mugs. It never crossed my mind they might be brewing their own, but it is certainly tasty stuff. Does "Ward's" ring a bell?