Tuesday 14 January 2014

Carters Root Beer review

After a tip-off from a Facebook fan I went to Asda supermarket to buy a six pack of this Carters Root Beer. At £1.40 for six 330ml cans this is a bargain at just over 23p per can. Carters is made in the UK hence the price and should be supported otherwise Walmart has the power to sink these type of companies i.e. if the public doesn't buy it, they won't stock it. With over 500 stores in the UK that's a lot to lose.

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
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2 comments:

  1. 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!

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  2. Nooooooo. 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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