Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Jack Black's Dead Red Root Beer

Ingredients: Carbonated Water, Cane Sugar, Caramel Color, Caffeine, Brazilian Guarana, Sodium Benzoate (to preserve freshness), Citric Acid, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Red #40

Smells: I'm so rusty, I almost forgot to take whiff of this one. Luckily it had a strong enough scent to remind me that I judge the smell. The scent was fairly strong with anise.


Head: Pretty tall as you can see, doesn't last excessively long so you can start enjoying your drink even sooner. Average length really, but some froth does stay through the entire drink.

Flavor: Despite the strong anise smell it had, I was surprised that the taste wasn't there too strongly. In fact this one had a creamy sort of quality too it, but also lacked a vanilla flavor. Mostly what you get is an old fashioned sassafras flavor.

Overall: It's nice to come back to this after a while and get something that's actually pretty basic to reset myself. I did notice that in the ingredients there was Caffeine and Guarana which is usually found in energy drinks, but they didn't really effect the flavor at all, unless perhaps they hid any anise or vanilla flavors, which would be sad.

Purchased from Alsip Home & Nursery