Weis Choice Root Beer

i have probably said it 83 times by now, but there really is only so much one can say about a store brand root beer. it probably is going to taste like you expect it to. traditional root beer flavor with a strupy sweetness. even though this probably took me over a year to review so i do believe i purchased it at the same time as the two birch beers immediately above this, it retains the same flavor as i would have expected. i am actually not sure why i took so long with this. i took the photo about that time also and started to write something which i am sure would have been very witty and exciting but i never opened the can until now. nutty stuff. not literally nutty like those Nutfield’s sodas which i never did try though of course. so yeh, this is ok. nothing special.
Anthony’s Rating: 60
User’s Rating: 54
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Boylan’s Natural Root Beer

so Boylan’s has come out with a line of “natural” sodas. leading the charge is this natural root beer with oils of sweet birch, cinnamon, sassafras, and anise along with extracts of bourbon vanilla, yucca and licorice. indeed. and let me tell you, as much as i was let down by the regular root beer from Boylan’s, i am impressed with this version! great stuff. very low carbonation which seems to help one actually taste the soda. and that, my friends, is a good thing because this is one tasty soda. sweet, perhaps a little bit too much so for some people but it is a good sweetness, not all syrupy and corn sweetener-like. you can taste the cinnamon very subtly as well as hints of the anise and licorice. great soda, one of the best!
Ingredients:carbonated water, cane sugar, pure essential oils of sweet birch, cinnamon, sassafras, and anise, extracts of bourbon vanilla, yucca, and licorice, other natural flavors and spices, caramel color (from cane sugar), citric acid

Anthony’s Rating: 98
User’s Rating: 67
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Journey Beverage Co Sassafras Root Beer

this one seems more likely to be the same as the Shenendoah Root Beer above yet i hope they revised the flavor. i mean “sassafras” is quite fun to say so i can understand why it was left in the name. it is somewhat nice i guess as it is what root beer is supposed to be made of anyway. well, definitely sarsaparilla, but most often traditional, old fashioned root beer also. ok, well, let’s try it out.
hhhmmm, not terrible so they definitely changed the recipe here. i am unsure if i like it. i suppose i do. that is weird. imagine, ME enjoying a Journey soda, let alone 2 of them in a row like this?! wow, nutty stuff i tell you. the taste is unique and quite lacking in the anise department even if it lists it in the ingredients. it is very herbal although i can not place just what herbs are used. the cane sweetener is rather prominent but not in an offensive way really. i may buy some more of this one day. i suppose the world just may be ending as the snow just keeps coming down where i am. oh well, i am at peace, journey has redeemed themselves.
Anthony’s Rating: 86
User’s Rating: 49
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Journey Beverage Co Birch Beer

so i am not sure if this replaces the vile and awful Borealis Birch since i have not seen that atrocity on store shelves in a long while or if it is yet another addition to the growing and disappearing line of Journey drinks. actually besides this and the root beer, i no longer see any other Journey beverages these days. for some of them, that is a shame as they seemed to be getting some stuff right, for others, it is a reason to rejoice.
so let me pop this one open and try it! wow, that taste like anise! that is not usually a direction that birch beers take, strange. i would actually be hard pressed to find any birch flavor here at all. i don’t hate the drink but i don’t terribly love liquorice. right now, i am kind of in the mood for some so this is good but other times i am sure i would really not be into it. if you like black liquorice, this is the drink for you. i find it weird that they can’t list just what “cane sweeteners” are in here. although, are there any sweeteners beside sugar that come in the form of a cane? i don’t know of any but i am not a sweetener-ologist at all. and just where does the fructose come from? curious, very curious Journey. well, you have put out a good beverage with very nice packaging, so keep it up.
Anthony’s Rating: 81
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# of ratings:4
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