Freddie's Old Fashioned Root Beer

I grabbed this bottle from a cute little store on a mountain biking trip with my boys:

On the ice cream freezer in Victual.

Brand: Freddie's Old Fashioned Root Beer.

Origin: Frankfort, KY.

Purchase Place: Victual, Crosby, MN.

Sweetener: High Fructose Corn Sweetener and/or Cane Sugar.

Review: This was OK. The initial sip is very "classic" and has a pretty deep flavor, but then there's an extra cinnamon-like aftertaste that just isn't QUITE right. It was decent and smooth, but not my favorite. I'll give this a pretty average score. (See more from my mountain biking trip up north in this post.)

Score: 5.5 out of 10.

NuGrape Grape Soda

Yesterday, my son and I were working on building a sandbox in the garage, and I grabbed a grape soda to enjoy:

That 2"x12" on the floor in the background is part of his new sandbox.

Brand: NuGrape Grape Soda.

Origin: Winchester, Kentucky.

Purchase Place: Frattallone's Ace Hardware, St. Paul, MN.

Sweetener: High Fructose Corn Syrup.

Review: The grape flavor was really good and sugary. But it was a little weak. It had the RIGHT flavor, but it could have used MORE of it. A pretty classic grape flavor, but it could have been amped up a little. It went down easy and fast. Not bad at all - giving it a slightly better than average score of 6.5.

Score: 6.5 out of 10.