Diet Barq's

Printed in big bold letters is the phrase "artificially flavored". It almost seems like they are proud of it - whatever . . .

I tend to drink a lot more of diet soda than regular ones - so here it goes!

Every sip of this brew (I don't know if it should even be called a brew) gets worse and worse. This actually doesn't even taste like a root beer - it is sort of fruity with maybe a little bit of a cherry taste. The carbonation, smell, head, and color don't really even seem to matter - because it doesn't seem like a root beer to me.

As far as the "dietness" of the taste goes - I have had a lot worse. I don't sense a lot of the artificial sugar taste - although it does have a bite and I guess part of that could be related to the aspartame. Oh well . . .

I give this brew an F

Deerfield Trading Company

Old Fashioned Root Beer

Deerfield Trading Company Root Beer is packaged exclusively for Walgreens. But when I checked out walgreens.com, there was not mention of the root beer or the company. There were some other Deerfield products - but it was called "Deerfield Farms" and I suspect that it is a different company.

Anyway - it is pretty neat that Walgreens would have a gourmet root beer in addition to their generic brand. I was expecting a half decent brew - given that they would take the time and effort to make a root beer with no "high fructose corn syrup" and that they would bottle this instead of plopping it in a can or plastic bottle. Unfortunately, I was "big-time" disappointed!!

I've read some half-decent reviews of the brew on other web-sites, but I didn't find anything half-decent at all. This root beer had virtually no head with a light root beer color. The brew tasted very watery and it was extremely light on taste. One of my family members commented that it didn't really even taste like a root beer at all. There was a bite at the end of each swallow of beer, but it didn't make up for the overall lack of root beerness in this concoction.

I give this brew a F+