Root Beer: A Taste Test

Last weekend we decided to live it up and have a root beer taste test. Scotty drinks “zero” drinks, so I rounded up cans of A&W, Mug, and Barq’s “zero” root beer. Scotty has long claimed that Barq’s is the best, and I wanted to see if I agreed and whether Scotty could pick out Barq’s root beer blindly. 

I numbered the root beers and had everyone taste them and write down their root beer analyses. 

Scotty was able to accurately identify each brand. 

After taste testing all of them, we didn’t have a clear winner. They all tasted quite similar, but some of our observations were:

A&W had the least amount of artificial sugar aftertaste but had the weakest root beer flavor. It also seemed to have less carbonation with more of a “flat” taste.

Mug and Barq’s tasted very similar and both had the yucky aftertaste of diet soda. They were a little more flavorful and crisp than the A&W.

In the end, we all said we would drink any one of them, which makes for a very boring report in a blog post. 

Now we need to do the same thing with regular, sugary root beer.