Jananas

We’d put our first two bottles of root beer in the fridge earlier this week, but hadn’t quite found the time to taste them until last night. Root beer, homemade popcorn, and a horror movie – yes please!

First up - Thomas Kemper Root Beer & Low Calorie Root Beer. Even though they’re technically two different root beers, we thought that it made more sense to try them at the same time. This way we could compare them to each other as well, on the diet vs. non-diet spectrum.

Here’s our non-expert review*. Both versions smelled good. Really good. They had that awesome root beer aroma. It made it a little bit of a shock when I took my first sip. My initial reaction was to be a little disappointed. Turns out that this wasn’t because it was bad, but rather because its a different formulation that I’m used to drinking. Once I realized that it was much simpler to appreciate what this root beer is awesome at – having a rich, creamy, not too fizzy flavour. Creamy as in really creamy. Not what I was expecting (which would have had more wintergreen), but good.

Now for the diet (aka low calorie) version. At first this was quite good – I liked that it wasn’t as sweet. However, it had that terrible sucralose aftertaste that overwhelmed the good root beer flavour. Lesson for us? If we have diet versions, try them first in case the sweetener used doesn’t taste great.

For Christmas I bought Jason the popcorn maker pictured above. He’s a huge movie buff and he loves popcorn when he’s watching them, so it seemed fitting. Its a pretty fun accessory to have and it certainly gets more use than most of our kitchen gadgets. I found some small plastic old movie theatre/carnival style popcorn holders on the curb one day. I grabbed ‘em and they really complete the experience.

Look closely. Look very, very closely at Gucci’s mouth. Notice the small piece of popcorn? Yup, turns out that our Thai dog likes popcorn as much as Jason does. Although to be fair, he wasn’t sure of it at first. Classic was getting the popcorn stuck to his lips – surprisingly it stayed long enough to get a picture.

* Disclaimer: We are not root beer experts! We have not been paid to give reviews. We’re just two root beer loving folks who decided it would be fun to actively try as many different kinds of root beer as possible. We’re keeping track of the experiment so that we’ll remember which ones we liked best. And what we like, may not be what you’d like.