Dad's Old Fashioned Root Beer

I never got a photo of my last soda in Vegas. (Actually, I never got a photo of my final few bottles.) My last soda was Dad's Old Fashioned Root Beer.

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Brand: Dad's Old Fashioned Root Beer.

Origin: Jasper, IN.

Purchase Place: Rocket Fizz, Las Vegas, NV.

Sweetener: Cane sugar.

Review: Too "smokey." It almost tasted burnt. I wanted to like this a lot more, but I was really disappointed. It didn't even taste like root beer to me - it was like bad cola. No thanks. (I think I'll have to try Dad's again because I don't remember it being this bad when I've had it in the past. Stay tuned for an update on this.)

Score: 3 out of 10.

Sioux City Sarsaparilla

Fifth in my Vegas sodas was Sioux City Sarsaparilla:

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All my Vegas Sodas: Bulldog Root Beer, Dad's Root Beer, Faygo Root Beer, Sioux City Sarsaparilla,
Lester's Fixins Bacon Soda, and Snooki's Wild Cherry.

Brand: Sioux City Sarsaparilla.

Origin: Whitestone, NY.  (Then WHY is it called "Sioux City?")

Purchase Place: Rocket Fizz, Las Vegas, NV.

Sweetener: Pure cane sugar.

Review: Really smooth, and really caramely. I'm not into that much caramel flavor, but the smoothness was nice. Good amount of head.

Score: 8 out of 10.

Faygo Root Beer

Onto my 3rd soda purchased in Vegas... Faygo Root Beer.

My Faygo and another soda on ice in our Vegas hotel room.

I really like Grape Faygo, but I'd never had their root beer. Time to try it out.

Brand: Faygo Original Root Beer.

Origin: Detroit, MI.

Purchase Place: Rocket Fizz, Las Vegas, NV.

Sweetener: Cane Sugar.

Review: The first taste is perfect. PERFECT! (It reminds me a bit of Root Beer Barrels - the candy.) But then it has a strange aftertaste that I can't put my finger on. My wife completely agrees with this assessment: great at first, and then not quite right 2 seconds later. Still, pretty damn good overall.  So far, my favorite of my 3 "Vegas" sodas.

Score: 8.5 out of 10.

Snooki Wild Cherry

My second soda from Rocket Fizz while I was in Vegas was Snooki's Wild Cherry soda:

Snooki in the bathroom of our Vegas hotel room.

Yeah, I can't believe I bought it either. I do NOT like Snooki (or Jersey Shore), but based on the sheer randomness that Snooki has her own soda led me to try it. I'm not proud of it. But that's what I did.

Brand: Snooki Wild Cherry (by Rocket Fizz).

Origin: Camarillo, CA (I think... it's not well labeled).

Purchase Place: Rocket Fizz, Las Vegas, NV.

Sweetener: Pure Cane Sugar.

Review: The cherry flavor was too "fake," but it had a nice amount of fizz. Just a little too "fake" tasting overall, probably a lot like Snooki...

Score: 4 out of 10.

Bulldog Root Beer

The first soda I opened in Vegas was this Bulldog Root Beer:

Bulldog in the bathroom of our Bellagio hotel room.

Brand: Bulldog Handcrafted Root Beer.

Origin: Mukilteo, Washington.

Purchase Place: Rocket Fizz, Las Vegas, NV.

Sweetener: Cane Sugar.

Review: REALLY creamy. Nice vanilla flavor. It's not perfect, but if you like "creamy," then you'll like this!

Score: 8 out of 10.

Vegas Trip!!

My wife and I just got back from 4 days in Vegas. Our trip included a stop at Rocket Fizz Soda Pop and Candy Shop.

This is ALL Root Beer!!

All of their individual kinds of soda on the wall.

They had 3 carts of soda like this!

Here's a selection of 15 different kinds of orange soda (under some taffy).

Over 20 kinds of Lemon Lime soda.  At my count, I've had 6 of these.

Lots of bottles in the coolers in the back.

Unfortunately, I couldn't purchase a case or 2 of soda and have them mail it home to me - I was hoping they could do that. So I had to only purchase what I was going to drink in the next 24 hours before we left for home. I limited myself to 6 bottles:

Bulldog Root Beer, Dad's Root Beer, Faygo Root Beer, Sioux City Sarsaparilla,
Lester's Fixins Bacon Soda, and Snooki's Wild Cherry.

My 6 sodas sitting in our hotel room over-looking The Bellagio's fountain.

So I'll be posting my reviews of all of these over the next week or 2.  Stop by to see what I thought of my Vegas sodas.