Jananas

Last night we had another contender showdown – Berghoff vs. diet Berghoff. Originally hailing from Chicago’s own Berghoff restaurant, you can find more about its history here or below.

“A descendant of Prohibition-era Bergo Soda Pop, Berghoff Root Beer has long been a favorite. For the past 50 years this exceptional rich-tasting root beer could only be enjoyed on draft at the restaurant. Now, both regular and diet varieties are being bottled and can be purchased at The Berghoff or in retail stores.”

Our last few attempts have been a little disappointing, but we’re very happy to announce that we were delighted with Berghoff. To start, their regular root beer is sweetened with cane sugar (not corn syrup). Both bottles had a wonderful minty and creamy scent. It sounds silly, but have you ever smelled a bottle of soda right after its been opened? Try it, if its a good bottle the funny looks you’ll get from the people around you are totally worth the aroma heaven you’ll be in.

The regular version was fresh tasting and well rounded. It was minty and smooth and creamy. It had a little bit of everything and balanced it well. In terms of personal preference, I found it to be quiet sweet (in the cane sugar way) whereas Jason loved it for precisely that reason.

On the other hand I quite liked the diet version. [ I'm going to go off an a brief tangent - I love (love) diet coke, and always have. Its funny because I'm already with the taste of aspartame in it, even though I loathe it in other sodas. I also intensely dislike sucralose, mostly because I find it has a terrible aftertaste. ] The diet version is sweetened with aspartame. It wasn’t nearly as sweet tasting as the regular version. And although it has that aspartame taste, it wasn’t terrible (or as terrible as) most other diet soda. For example, I think diet Dr. Pepper is awful. Overall this diet root beer was quite pleasant. It still had a nice root beer flavour and it wasn’t ruined or overwhelmed by the choice of the artificial sweetener.

I would definitely buy this again and recommend that you give it a try. Thank you Berghoff for restoring my faith in our root beer challenge!

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