RED RIBBON HOME BREWED STYLE ROOT BEER, Soda Pop Review

Anything that says it’s “Micro Crafted” has to be good, right? “Home Brewed Style” means that this is going to be great Root Beer. I was kind of saving this one.

The first smell of the open bottle brings good, fresh root beer smells. This is a good sign. I’m going to like it.

I smell it a few more times, in anticipation. Hhhmmm… Yes.

I take a sip. Not bad as I’m sipping it. It’s root beer. It’s got the root beer flavor. Pretty full flavor. Sweet, but not as sweet as expected.

The disappointment settles in. The aftertaste is a strange chemical taste. Not a horrible taste. I’ve had worse, but not the nice, sweet afterglow of other root beer I’ve had.

This is OK. The flavor is not bad. The aftertaste is almost not bad. Nothing is great about this. I’m sad.

It’s average, through and through. As I was told in high school, it’s “not living up to it’s potential”. It could have been great, but it was merely good, with a below average aftertaste.

There’s something in the “artificial flavor” that’s throwing this one off. You might want to try it and see if I’m wrong, but we won’t be buying any more of this.

Sorry, man. We could have been good together, but it just didn’t work out.

INGREDIENTS: Filtered Carbonated Water, Sugar, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Citric Acid, Caramel Color.