there is a distinctly different taste difference in buying this in the store and at their restaurants. perhaps because you get it in a rad mug at the restaurant or perhaps it is that fountain / bottled difference. in any case, they are both good. sweet without being syrupy, creamy so it goes down like silk. i think it is the best of the huge brands.
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| Type: | Root Beer | Comes In: | 12oz glass bottle, 12 oz can, 20 oz plastic bottle, 1L plastic bottle, 2L plastic bottle, 3L plastic bottle, fountain |
| Available: | AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY, online, everywhere | Obtained in: | random convenience store, edison, NJ |
| Head: | Large | Sweetener: | high fructose corn syrup, sugar |
| Calories: | 170 | Sodium: | 55mg |
| Carbs: | 44g | Sugar: | 44g |
| Caffeine: | No | ||
| Website: | http://www.rootbeer.com/ | ||
Ingredients: carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup and/or sugar, caramel color, sodium benzoate (preservative), natural and artificial flavors
A&W is a solid root beer. The best root beer for root beer floats, in my opinion. You can’t go wrong with a good glass of this grand old standard.
I think it is as bad as their diet brand.
I remember the “good old days” when I would go to their drive in get a burger and root beer in a glass mug.
Damn, does memory fail, cause I think it was very, very good back then!
Still the best one, and the first one I turn to when I want one. Especially now that Snapple seems to have stopped making their all natural version at all. >.<
Was the first brand of root beer that I drank. In can/bottle or from tap at Watertown, SD A&W (long since closed, it was a long time ago). Found Snapple and was with it a while, but when it vanished, and even before sometimes… this is the one I go to.
There is nothing quite like an A&W in a frosty mug from the tap at the local A&W drive in. A hot summer day, sitting in the orange vinyl booth with those little patches of ice floating on the top…yep, nothing quite like it. Bottled and canned cannot hold a candle to having it in the restaurant!
this root beer is awesome but does it have caffeine??
i gave up caffeine for lint and im dying for a root beer
ps. i am catholic
oh my bad didnt read it all thx for the review
Did this root beer have cane sugar in it?
nope. well, maybe at one time it did, but not in the past decade or so.
There is a reason why A&W is the only root beer to go global and remain global — its taste is universally appealing and never off-putting. You also know it when you taste it. I’ve done blind tastings in frosty mugs and folks can almost always spot the A&W even though they can’t identify anything else. This says a lot about why the king is king. Tasting lots of root beers is fun, but when you’re done, no one wants to ever buy more than a few of them a second time. A&W always makes everyone’s short list. Nuff said.
Hmmm… If this A&W was from West Jefferson Dr. Pepper, then it would of had to have been made with cane sugar, right?
Just tried A&W on draft at an A&W Restaurant. All I can say is that it is waaaay better than the junk you can buy at the market. It’s freshly made with cane sugar, on draft in a frosty glass mug. It just has a full, delicious flavor that the store bought stuff cannot live up to. I’d rate the restaurant version as an 88. The typical A&W you can buy at the store I’d rate as a 62.
Their tap root beer at the restaurants is clearly better than their bottled.
I recently bought a case of the A&W root beer from Dr. Pepper West Jefferson bottling company. It has cane sugar in it. Absolutely delicious. Not top ten best, but still good. Kinda artificial tasting. However, a nice bold flavor, with a hint of sarsaparilla. I’d give it an 88. Especially in a frosted mug it really quenches the thirst. Smooth. Cane sugar really comes through and you can taste it. Kinda comes off a bit like “aspartame”, but like if aspartame actually tasted good.
So, when we going to get a review of the draft A&W root beer from an A&W restaurant? The A&W from the restaurant……I rate that stuff like a 91 or 92.