Weis Choice Birch Beer

mmmm, a red birch beer! and actually it is good! not generic at all. in fact it tastes berry-ish. strawberry I would say. weird. but it does work, sort of. i hate strawberry soda so i am surprised that i like this at all. it is more in the aftertaste that the strawberry comes out and then just for a moment, very quick-like. besides that it is very sweet, has a slight wintergreen zing and tastes good. the sweetness level may in fact be too high though for me, which is quite an acheivement.
Anthony’s Rating: 72
Your Rating: 92
# of ratings:4

Weis Choice White Birch Beer

a couple of days after I reviewed the diet version of this above quite some time ago, i got a couple of emails from people asking why i reviewed just the diet when the regular, full of calories version is so good. i told them that that was what Dr Wayne had sent me and if they would be so kind as to send another variety i would be happy to pay for the costs and postage and all. no one ever replied. so i was happy when i recently saw a Weis Supermarket for myself and was able to get the full line of their sodas. this one is indeed quite tasty. i do enjoy the white birch beer quite a bit. i don’t know if it is because white birch beer is a unique flavor and you don’t find it that much but i just enjoy it more in general than other flavors, even if it is generic and store brand. but yeh, this has the wintergreen kick, is quite refreshing and crisp. good stuff.
Anthony’s Rating: 75
Your Rating: 80
# of ratings:26

Best Yet Root Beer

ah yeh, more store brand root beer! hhhmm, actually it is different. very carbonated which seems to cover the actual taste. yet that actual taste seems to be very small. which i suppose, is better than it being a bad taste which is overwhelming. or a bad taste in general. i mean, this tastes fine, what there is of it to taste. i would have a hard time even knowing this was root beer if i did not read the can. i suppose that means it fails as a generic root beer and pretty much as a beverage on the whole, at least for me who does not like carbonated tasteless stuff. oh well.

Anthony’s Rating: 37
Your Rating: 39
# of ratings:3

Mt Tom Beverage Co Rollie’s Root Beer

i had been planning on trying to obtain some of this stuff next time i went up to Massachusetts, but then my friend Mile brought me a bottle of it. this is quite interesting i must say. spicy in the way a ginger beer is spicy. in fact i would probably guess it was a ginger beer if this were a blind taste test. which is not to say it is bad at all. just actually different than any other root beer i have had. and that is saying something when i have had 285 other root beer type beverages! it is kind of refreshing actually. i meant that in the drink sort of way in that it is sort of light but with a solid taste, but it also applies in the mental way of it being refreshing to find something different. the closest thing I can recall tasting similiar is Shotz. i can’t really taste the maple syrup but there is a little bit of a honey taste and a hint of cane sugar kick. a great root beer. good job Mt Tom Beverage Co / Papercity Brewery!
Anthony’s Rating: 92
Your Rating: 85
# of ratings:8

Fitz’s Diet Premium Micro-Brewed Root Beer

if it were not for that awful aftertaste, this would be ok. i seem to be saying a similar thing for many of the diet sodas i have reviewed lately (can you tell i have been putting off buying and reviewing these things? still have a few to go for bear with me.) so yeh, that metallic, weird aftertaste just ruins it for me. kind of creamy and it even tastes remotely like root beer! but it still is diet and you can tell. sadly.

Anthony’s Rating: 36
Your Rating: 68
# of ratings:8

Kroger’s Big K Root Beer

eh, store brand generic root beer, what else can i say about it that has not been said? i think i may give up on reviewing these. they all taste about the same and probably are actually made by the same people somewhere. and with Kroger’s being this massive monolith, this is probably the same root beer that would be at Fred Meyer’s, Fry’s, Dillion, Smith’s and many others. wacky indeed. so yeh, it tastes like you would expect it to taste. root beer as served at barbeques across the heartland of america every summer. good, but not advancing the root beer cause anywhere.
Anthony’s Rating: 65
Your Rating: 64
# of ratings:24

Gray’s Great American Diet Root Beer

ok, so i have a lot of diet root beers to go through, live with it! hey wait, this is diet?! well, the aftertaste is there a little but otherwise this is pretty regular tasting. even more so than the Sprecher Lo-Cal Root Beer from yesterday. which does not mean it is in fact good or even tastes much like root beer, but it is decent. for diabetics and those on a diet. i would still probably go for the Diet Saranac if i was on a diet, but who really knows, some people may prefer this one. i don’t quite see how. maybe if i had it with a slice of pizza it would taste more root beer-like or something. ok, now that it is not as cold i can kind of taste something. a little creamines, a little bitterness, a little zing. i don’t know. not terrible, but i’d prefer the real stuff.

Anthony’s Rating: 46
Your Rating: 63
# of ratings:2