This one caught my eye for two reasons.
First, it is a 16oz. bottle, which, if tasty and delicious, will provide me with 4 extra ounces of root beery goodness.
Second, it is quite a bit less expensive than a few of its competitors. My previous review - Coopers Cave was $1.79 for a 12 oz bottle. Frostop on the other hand was only $1.41 for a whole 16oz.
Clearly a winner.
The presentation isn't quite as nice as some of the other premium sodas I've tasted - the cap is a screw-off bottle cap instead of a traditional pop off cap, and there's an "and/or" in the ingredient list, which is just silly.
Speaking of ingredients, here's the rundown:
Carbonated Water
Sugar *and/or Corn Sweeteners
Caramel Color
Natural and Artificial Flavors
Phosphoric Acid and Sodium Benzoate to preserve freshness.
So, sugar and/or corn sweeteners....
I don't understand how you get to the point where you have to put an and/or on your product. Did they add some to one batch and not to another? Do they use whatever is cheaper at the time? Who knows.
It also doesn't say high fructose corn syrup, just corn sweeteners. So, is high fructose corn syrup considered a corn sweetener? I guess it is. Not that I care about the "fake sugar" that is high fructose corn syrup. Sweet is sweet, in my opinion.
Ok. On to the flavor.
It's decent. Sweeter than I prefer, and doesn't have much of a bite. Unlike Barq's. Barq's has bite. Or so they say. I haven't had one of those in a long time, so I don't remember.
Maybe it just doesn't have enough CO2 in the carbonated water. Maybe that's what it is.
It's just not that spectacular. Not bad, and definitely better than A&W, but not great.
As my wife says "Good not great"
