"Frosty
Mug Taste"Luke's Root Beer Reviews
A&W
"Frosty
Mug Taste"
Cadbury Beverages Inc., Stamford, Connecticut 06905
"One hot day in June of 1919, in Lodi, California, an entrepreneur named Roy Allen mixed up a batch of creamy root beer and sold the first frosty mug of this delightful beverage for one nickel. Now, seventy years later, A&W Root Beer is the world's number one selling root beer and is still made fresh daily and sold at hundreds of A&W Restaurants."
Review
Sweet nose, highly carbonated -- too much carbonation for my taste (great burps,
though!). An undistinguished generic national soda. Slight
artificial aftertaste.
Luke's Numbers (3/16/03)
|
Flavor |
Mouthfeel |
|
Sweetness 6 |
Carbonation 4 |
|
Rootiness 5 |
Smoothness 5 |
|
Aftertaste 5 |
Over-all mouthfeel 5 |
|
Over-all Flavor 5 |
Over-all Root Beer Experience 5 |
|
Over-all average 5.00 |
Rank: 49 of 50 |
Ingredients: carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup and/or sugar, caramel color, sodium benzoate (preservative), natural and artificial flavors. 12 oz. bottle, 170 calories, 55 mg sodium, 44 g total carbohydrates, 44 g from sugars. Caffeine free.
Links
A&W corporate homepage
A&W Root Beer of Lodi -- the birthplace of A&W
Ken Polsson's Mug Shots -- for collectors of A&W Root Beer memorabilia
A history of A&W from 1919 to now, from the Lodi A&W
Another history of A&W from 1919 to the present
Luke's Root Beer Homepage + Root Beer Rankings
2001 Root Beer Taste-off + 2002 Root Beer Taste-off