Posted in Big Red, Carbonated Soft Drinks, Creme Soda, Reviews on Nov 18th, 2011 6 Comments »
Big Red Zero lives up to original's flavor, however the sucralose, Ace-K, and aspartame provide quite a bit of artificial sweetener aftertaste.
Posted in Big Red, Carbonated Soft Drinks, Creme Soda, Reviews on Nov 7th, 2011 2 Comments »
Retro Big Red features a distinctive red creme soda/bubble gum/strawberry flavor, while showcasing a clean finish thanks to cane sugar. Sweet & yummy!
Posted in Big Red, Carbonated Soft Drinks, Creme Soda, Reviews on Sep 8th, 2011 2 Comments »
Big Blue doesn't taste blue or berry. Rather, it resembles a standard cream soda. It's substantially sweet, but not substantially special. Try it out of curiosity, but then find something better.
Posted in Big Red, Carbonated Soft Drinks, Creme Soda, Reviews on Sep 6th, 2011 17 Comments »
Big Red is a sweet red creme soda with a distinctive strawberry bubble gum flavor. Long established in the South since 1937, the brand is working to grow their visibility.
Posted in A&W, Carbonated Soft Drinks, Creme Soda, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Kosher, Reviews, Root Beer on Feb 24th, 2008 7 Comments »
Take the flavor experience of a root beer float and bottle it. That's what A&W Float soda attempts to pull off. It's an interesting innovation idea… and one that comes close, but misses. While it does use sugar and skim milk, the resulting taste is so artificial that you shouldn't even bother. Great idea, horrible execution.
Posted in Carbonated Soft Drinks, Creme Soda, Reviews, The Coca-Cola Company on Nov 8th, 2007 20 Comments »
When you think Barq's, you typically think about that root beer with a "bite". They should stick to root beer, because Barq's Red Creme Soda is nothing unique. Sweetened with HFCS, very syrupy, and way too sweet, this Red #40-colored drink dampens the solid name of its root beer sibling.
Posted in Carbonated Soft Drinks, Creme Soda, Jones Soda, Update on Jun 18th, 2007 5 Comments »
Clarification regarding Jones Soda's use of the term "inverted cane sugar" from an e-mail sent by a reader with a degree in biology with a minor in chemistry.
Posted in Carbonated Soft Drinks, Creme Soda, Jones Soda, Reviews on Jun 11th, 2007 18 Comments »
This soft drink review takes a look at the revised Jones Soda line, no longer sweetened with high fructose corn syrup. Jones Soda Cream Soda is instead sweetened with "inverted cane sugar". What is inverted cane sugar? Sweet, but good.
