Today, I will honor Sprecher Fire Brewed Root Beer with a taste test and review. At first sight, I noticed that this root beer has "glucose syrup" listed as its sweetener. Bizarre, to me. I'll look it up.
Interesting. It appears to be a less-sweet grandpa to HFCS. It was in use before HFCS was widespread. Ok. No apparent health concerns with this one. It still has sodium benzoate, which is included in most other rootbeers I've reviewed.
The Smell test: The waxy nature of the cup I'm using to inhale the scent of this brew is interferring with the scent itself, which appears to be a very robust brew, with very little of that creamy aftersmell I get from better brews. I didn't have a freshly chilled mug to taste this, unlike Vefele's glasses that she enthusiastically provided during the taste test earlier this week.
The taste: I don't know if there's something wrong with my sense of taste today, but this root beer's taste is unremarkable. It almost doesn't even taste like root beer. It's more like Abida (a terrible brew I didn't review last week because I was still wrapping my head around how Louisiana could produce root-beer flavoured water. It's like a bad Limp Bizkit album. Points if you get the reference.) The bite is there, the flavour is there, but it's muted somehow. I am purposefully holding off eating my very tasty-looking fish burrito to write this, and provide an unadulterated tasting. Unfortunately, it was almost not worth it. It's better than Abida in that it tastes more like a root beer than something you'd drag out of the gulf of Mexico. But it lacks in aroma, it lacks in filling my mouth with joy, and I'm not very impressed in either way with it. But it's root beer. And I will drink it. I will also give it a second chance in a real glass cup if anyone protests this review.
Until next time!
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