"Taste
Plus Value"Luke's Root Beer Reviews
A+
Old Fashioned Root Beer
"Taste
Plus Value"
Albertson's Inc., Boise, Idaho
Review
Off-putting creosote-like nose. Bubbly water taste with a little insipid sweetness then flattening into something buttery (odd!). Vague undefinable aftertaste. Tiny bubbles make for good burps but not much else. This is the kind of chain-store root beer that is served at the company picnic, and at the end of the day everything else is gone from the cooler except this, which no one wanted to venture into. Somewhere between bad and really bad, one of the very worst root beers in our ranking (though Jeff's Egg-Cream Root Beer probably tastes worse).
Luke's Numbers (6/22/03)
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Flavor |
Mouthfeel |
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Sweetness 5 |
Carbonation 6 |
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Rootiness 3 |
Smoothness 5 |
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Aftertaste 5 |
Over-all mouthfeel 5 |
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Over-all Flavor 4.5 |
Over-all Root Beer Experience 5 |
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Over-all average 4.81 |
Rank: 75 of 76 |
Ingredients: carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup and/or sugar, caramel color, potassium benzoate (a preservative), gum acacia, quillaia, artificial and natural flavor. 12 oz. can, 170 calories, 35 mg sodium, 47 g total carbohydrates, 47 g from sugars.
Acquired: Albertson's, Chico, California
Available: Albertson's is a west coast supermarket chain. Responsible consumers are now boycotting them over their lock-out of their cashiers in southern California.
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