Capt’n Eli’s Root Beer
| Type: | Root Beer | Comes In: | 12oz glass bottle |
| Available: | CA, ME, OK, online | Obtained in: | mailorder from company |
| Head: | Medium | Sweetener: | cane sugar |
| Calories: | 165 | Sodium: | 35mg |
| Carbs: | 40g | Sugar: | 39g |
| Caffeine: | No | ||
| Website: | http://www.captneli.com/index.php | ||
another purchase from this fine web store! just goes to show you that you can scour a city or whatever pretty well and miss a ton of sodas as i have been to portland a couple times in the past year or so and came up totally empty. oh well. so this is a solid soda, probably one of the better ones i have had in a while. a complex flavor, which i’d expect as it contains “wintergreen oil, anise, vanilla, spices, herbs” and more. i can taste the wintergreen but not so much the anise. i suppose very subtly. yeh, definitely, it is coming out more as i drink. in theory i don’t like anise much, but when it is not strong and overpowering as here or in a couple other brews i enjoy it. this is a unique beverage in a sea of many many sodas that taste too similar.
Ingredients:water, cane sugar, caramel coloring, natural and artificial flavors including wintergreen oil, anise, vanilla, spices, herbs, citric acid, sodium benzoate as a preservative
Anthony’s Rating: 94
User’s Rating: 84
# of ratings:150
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Satisfying root beer. I wish it had a little more bite to it. However good stuff
It was ok. Too minty for me. It has a strong wintergreen flavor to it. But a decent brew I suppose.
Satisfying root beer. I wish it had a little more bite to it. However very good stuff.
I was apprehensive because of the wintergreen on the label but it wasn’t strong at all. Very good root beer.
I found this to be a very weak root beer. I noticed that most of the people writing glowing reviews had been sent a free 4 pack of the stuff. I have to wonder if that had anything to do with how most people rated this.
It tastes like something is missing, and aside from the high sugar taste, doesn’t have much of any kind of other taste. I was excited to see the inclusion of anise in the ingredient list, although to taste it, you never could tell.
The only thing this has over the generic store brand root beers is a visible head of foam I could see inside the bottle.
Root beer should be “full bodied”, with at least two layers of flavor, this barely had one.
Just tried this today. I was really blown away by the flavor. It was perfect. Might even outdo Sprecher root beer for me. It has the perfect blend of spice and kick. 94 out of 100, for me.
I thought Cap’n Eli’s was a fine, reliable root beer but it didn’t merit stratospheric ratings or rantings like others have given it. I do compare it to Sprecher’s as another reviewer did, but I put Sprecher’s well ahead of it. I just did a 54 root beer side-by-side tasting and our one criteria was simple: which rb’s did you like enough to buy again. Only about 10 – 15 made the cut for everyone and Cap’n Eli’s was on most of our lists.
Yup, this root beer is near perfection! Totally outdoes Sparky’s root beer.