- Manufacturer:
- Mountain Brewed in Bozeman, Montana
- The Pitch:
- No Whiners (Spike says: Gotta like that!)
- The Ingredients:
- Water, brown sugar, caramel color, molasses, gum arabic, natural and artificial flavors, sodium benzoate as a preservative.
- The box:
- n/a
Spike says:- Dark (no surprise considering the ingredients) and headless. I shouldn't read the ingredients list before I try root beers; it's like reading the last page of the book. Usually. I wasn't expecting to like this root beer after reading the label because it sounded like a very heavy brew. Brown sugar, molasses. Great potential for a bad drink. And "gum arabic"? I would like to meet the brewmaster that, after taking a sip, said, "Good stuff, but need something...gum arabic!) Surprisingly, this concoction turned out quite good. It's pretty smooth (vanilla and light carbonation, though the label says just "water") in fact. It has a fairly heavy molasses note (it's pretty much what this smells like) but it is surprisingly drinkable. A unique taste that works. I like it. As a dog lover I like that there is a dog on the label. As a moderately educated person, I don't like the fact they left out the apostrophe in "Chugs". Ok, I'm picky about stuff like this, but how hard is it to punctuate a label correctly? Well, I guess if "Lands' End" overcame a mistake in their name so can "Chugs". At any rate, good stuff I wouldn't mind picking up once in a while - B+.
