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Ironbeer

November 26, 2008
Filed under: other reviews — anthony @ 8:07 am
Type: Other Comes In: 12 oz can
Available: FL, online Obtained in: mail order
Head: Small Sweetener: fructose
Calories: 190 Sodium: 25mg
Carbs: 47g Sugar: 47g
Caffeine: No

i don’t really know if this qualifies as a sub-genre of root beer, but as i am the determiner of such things on this site, i will declare that it does! i suspect then that i should get some more of Foxon Park’s ‘Iron Brew’ to review also. although i forget if the taste of that one could even be stretched to be included. after tasting this one i am even less apt to put it up, but whatever, it is my site so include it i will, it is no more different than Birchola i think.
as a kid, i used to combine all sorts of stuff together to eat or drink. i loved grape jelly, lettuce and american cheese sandwiches. dunking cucumbers in orange juice was a delight. now this right here tastes to me like something i would have made. take 5 parts orange soda, add one part red cream soda, one part ginger ale and one part root beer and i think you’d get something very similar. it is quite fruity and sweet and tasty. other reviews i have checked out seem to say it tastes like fruity Dr Pepper but i don’t taste that at all here.
i rather like this, a slightly creamy, semi-herbal orange soda. interesting. now i see why the Cubans love it. or at least the can claims as much. “since 1917″ and all of that. but it is not a root beer really or all that related so in comparison it does suffer some.
for some reason i feel like this would be very tasty with some popcorn. i have no idea why really, although it may be since i used to throw popcorn kernels into my orange soda as a wee lad or something.

Ingredients: carbonated water, fructose, carmel color, citric acid, natural and artificial flavors

Anthony’s Rating: 75
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1 Comment for this post

 
Nancy Collins Says:

This is actually really good with Cuban food. Don’t ask me why.

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