If you remember how some of us in the UK got introduced to root beer then you would have had a McDonald's root beer. Well, Carters root beer is exactly the same taste - that medicine or Deep Heat cream smell and taste which haters will hate! Although this is not a diet drink you can taste the saccharin sweetner slightly which becomes more apparent as the drink gets warmer. If it was a wine it would be the house wine of a cheap restaurant. The best way to drink it is as cold as it can get, with ice in a frosted glass.
Because of its excellent value for money, being a British product and easy to get hold of this is the standard or the mid-point where root beers should be measured. Any gourmet, low-production, imported root beers should be better than this (and normally are).
It would be great if Carters could market and produce a vanilla version but with the UK soft drinks market as it is the investment and risk looks doubtful.
I rate this bargain beer:
5/10
I found this beer in the British specialty section of a Brussels supermarket and paid 1.25€ (about 1£ I think) for a can! As you recommended I drank it ice cold with crushed ice and quite enjoyed it. Even a cheap root beer beats the cola beverages!
ReplyDeleteNooooooo. This is, bar none, the WORST root beer I've ever tasted in my life. I don't understand why they put saccharine in it if it isn't diet. It completely ruined the taste. If you think this is good, then you've never had good root beer.
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