at last! frostie is mine to drink! you don’t know how many people told me to just go get some at Costco or something. finally i just ordered some. then i also got a bottle in my sampler pack from Seattle Specialty Beverages. the drink itself is pretty much regular root beer. a little spicy, a slight wintergreen kick, a pretty lot of carbonation. creamy. a good drink though. it may be somewhat generic but it falls on the good side of that fence. the foam lasts forever also, which is weird but not really bad so much.
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| Type: | Root Beer | Comes In: | 12oz glass bottle, 12 oz can |
| Available: | CA, OK, TX, online | Obtained in: | mail from Seattle Specialty Beverages & popsoda.com |
| Head: | Large | Sweetener: | high fructose corn syrup, sugar |
| Calories: | 160 | Sodium: | 50mg |
| Carbs: | 40g | Sugar: | 40g |
| Caffeine: | No | ||
| Website: | http://www.leadingedgebrands.com/ | ||
Ingredients: carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup and/or sugar, caramel color, sodium benzoate (a preservative), citric acid, natural and artificial flavors
This used to be my favorite bottled root beer growing up. When I saw it back on the shelf I eagerly bought some and was—very let down. There is no denying they’ve monkeyed with the formula since the 1960s. It’s not bad–it’s simply not what it used to be.
I would say this is the quintessential average root beer.
This Frostie had high fructose corn syrup in it. Maybe if you tried the Frostie Root Beer that Orca Beverages produces it would be a little tastier; because Orca Beverages uses cane sugar in their’s.
I was terribly disappointed with the Frostie Root Beer that I tasted. It was from Orca Beverages (Who ROCK btw!) but I found it lack luster.
Given the high revue here, I’ll give it another try next time I’m down in Washington.
Actually, the Frostie Root Beer made by Orca Beverages is pretty darn good!! It is kind of a weak flavor, yet pretty satisfying. Light vanilla and mint flavor and aroma. One of these days I’ll have to do a taste test between the HFCS and cane sugar version. Coincidentally, I too give this an 85.
Sad to hear it isn’t what it was. The sales of Frostie have been sold to Intrastate Distributing of Detroit, MI since 2009. My dad was a 7-Up and Frostie Distributor in the late ’60s and I also grew up with it being one of my favorite drinks. I will also be checking out the obviously new brand once I contact the company here.
This seems to be available anywhere there is a Fred Meyer with a cold case. Alaska, probably Washington, Oregon, etc.
I have always enjoyed a Frostie root beer as a standard go to root beer.
The frostie root beer now produced exclusively by frostie root beer LLC in Detroit is awesome! June 2014
Be sure and get the Frostie made with Real Cane Sugar.
Pepsi! Are you reading? Purchase the Frostie elf and distribute for all America to enjoy. I don’t like that bulldog. The elf rules.
One of my all time favorites, as I grew up with this particular brand. Shows up at a stand at the Minnesota State Fair, the real stuff, made with cane sugar. Brings back many good memories. Can get it in Minnesota at Jim’s Apple Farm (along with dozens of other brands).
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I’ll call this the Frostie that uses cane sugar and rate accordingly: Pretty sweet, not very carbonated, not very rooty or smooth, but actually pretty drinkable.