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All root beers way down to the end. |
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Back by the little game room (they've really made that smaller). |
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The soda fountain section had some old cans being used as vases. |
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My assorted case from Blue Sun Soda! |
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All root beers way down to the end. |
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Back by the little game room (they've really made that smaller). |
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The soda fountain section had some old cans being used as vases. |
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My assorted case from Blue Sun Soda! |
I was in a bad mood and wanted some good root beer, but unfortunately I only had this:
I opened this with supper tonight:
Brand: Lime Billy's Bubble Pop.
Origin: Spring Lake Park, MN.
Purchase Place: Blue Sun Soda, Bloomington, MN.
Sweetener: Pure Cane Sugar.
Review: This is another one of Billy's mixed up color sodas, and it's my favorite one yet! (The other's I've had I've ranked around average with scores around 5 to 6.5.)
This tastes like an extra sweet and extra "limey" lemon/lime soda. It almost tastes like an overly sweet mojito like I've had in Mexico. One of my boys thought it tasted a little "key lime"-like, but I think he was just thinking it was sweet like a dessert. This was sweet, classic, child-like, and tasty. Nothing special, but sweet and drinkable!
Score: 7.5 out of 10.
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My boys starting to look around inside. |
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Their soda selection. |
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These are all root beers, but I'd had them all. |
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Fresh popcorn and other goodies behind the counter. |
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My boys were picking out taffy flavors. The little buckets on the right were also "pay by the ounce" like the taffy, so there was a lot of possible "mix and match" going on. |
It had been years since I had "regular" Thomas Kemper root beer. So it was time to try their low calorie version:
I opened this earlier today:
Brand: Root Jack Orange Flavored Root Beer Pirate Energy Drink.
Origin: Mishawaka, IN.
Purchase Place: Blue Sun Soda, Bloomington, MN.
Sweetener: High Fructose Corn Syrup.
Review: This is labeled a "pirate energy drink," so I was a little concerned. It has your daily allowance of vitamin C to "keep scurvy in check," so that's good. It has quillaja which Google tells me is sometimes used to help with foam in root beer. And it has caffeine and guarana seed extract which are both stimulants. I also found online that it has 10 mg of caffeine/oz, so this bottle had 120 mg of caffeine!
But on to the flavor. It's not great. It has that energy drink chemically-ness to it. The orange flavor with the root beer isn't bad - that's actually kinda fun. If you like energy drinks, then you might like this. If you don't then you might want to steer away from this one. Not bad, totally unique, but not great.
Score: 5.5 out of 10.
Yes, it's been over 2 weeks since my last post... I've had this soda in the fridge, but I kept putting off trying it because I was a bit scared. And it's not just one I can grab and take to class as it could leave a horrible taste in my mouth. But FINALLY, here we are...
Not surprisingly, my boys tried this and loved it. They thought it was quite good.
The grape flavor is quite sweet (almost surprisingly sweet), and then it hits with the "candy" sour. The sour really isn't TOO much - yes, it made my face have a physical reaction each time, but it's still almost subtle. Almost. Not bad, and just a fun soda. This is NOT something I would pick when I just wanted to sip on something, but something I'd grab with a friend. As a "drinking" soda, it's crap. But for the experience, I'll rate this just above average.
Score: 6.5 out of 10.
Last night as I was peeling oranges for my wife to take to work today, I opened something orange for myself: