Jananas

We decided to have another root beer taste test this evening. This time it was two diet root beers. For some reason we only had the diet versions of these two so we decided to have test them at the same time.

First up – Saranac Diet Root Beer. This had a nice minty smell and then followed up with a creamy taste. I was a little off put because of the disconnect between smell and taste. There was also a slight aftertaste that put this into the ‘wouldn’t buy this again’ pile. Strangely its sweetened with both high fructose corn syrup and aspartame – the worst of both worlds?

Next up is Gray’s Diet Root Beer. This was pretty terrible – no smell and no taste = coloured water! We both took one sip, looked at each other and dumped the rest out. Yup, officially a don’t buy. In fact, I’d suggest running the other way if someone tries to tell you that this is even remotely passable (i.e. if its on the menu).

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