A&W Root Beer—Contender #15

This is it! The final contender in my sarsaparilla showdown (featuring a few root beers). Just as is the case when cooking a BBQ on top of a high-rise apartment building, the stakes have been high. The contenders have fought a fair fight and all have fought hard. The beverage that won the right to go last was today's A&W Root Beer. The Root Beer I recall so fondly from the times I went to the USA as a child (aged 9 and again aged 14). I recall this fondly because I remember loving the drink and I recall fondly how simple life was way back then. It was quite some time ago.

But enough of the flashbacks. Let's see how much I enjoyed my final root beer (for the competition that is).

I'm just going to go ahead and say it. If the competition was based on flavour alone, this would be my winner. But the competition is not based on flavour alone. It's based on many things I'm yet to work out an accurate measuring method for (which will hopefully come later today in an action packed article of statistics and graph based imagery).

What should also be a factor in my scoring (but isn't) is the company website URL. I mean, if your URL is www.rootbeer.com (as is the case for A&W) surely you can lay claim to all that is root beer!?!

Now I've never laid claim to being a sarsaparilla connoisseur, but I think the aged vanilla may have something to do with the outstanding taste of A&W Root Beer. It's something the other contenders didn't have. Having said that, the contenders that did have that something extra mentioned on their labelling (cane sugar, honey and vanilla for example) did seem to not only taste different, but also have a noticable taste difference that made them taste better.

A&W Root Beer is a sarsaparilla based drink that I find incredibly tasty, very easy to swallow and with just the right level of sweetness combined with carbonation. One can drunk and I feel refreshed and fulfilled. Life is awesome and I want more of it. Life and root beer that is.

So there you have it. I've tasted the fifteen sarsaparilla based drinks I could find locally and easilly. I've compared them all. This is my favourite based on taste alone. Stay tuned as I compare them on a somewhat official selection criteria. Who knows ... there could be medals.