Trying New York Seltzer Original Root Beer Soda

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Hey YouTube, what's going on? Uh, we're back today with another Original New York Seltzer, this time we have the root beer um if you heard me remember last time there's the little mint marks in amusement. So, I wasn't a fan of when I tried the vanilla, you can find that video, it smelled nice in the bottle when I poured it out it changed and it was, it was like nabisco wafers or those vanilla grandma's cookies it was, it was alright. It wasn't my favorite. Uh, you know, I'm, I'm pretty particular about root beer and this is clear so that's gonna psychologically throw me but yeah let's uh, let's try this out.

We got Mr. Moose here, you'll pardon the water spots, we are on a well we do use a water softener because it's very much needed we have a lot of iron and sulfur in our water and as such you get spots from you know the salts you're putting into the water and the mineral content.

So again, this is Original New York Seltzer naturally flavored root beer, the choice is clear, it's their motto, it's 10 fluid ounces or 296 milliliters, there are 100 calories per bottle, zero grams of fat, five milligrams of sodium, 25 grams of carbohydrates which is 25 grams of sugar, that's total added sugars is 25 grams, no protein, not a significant source of other nutrients, bottled under the authority of the original New York Seltzer LLC Los Angeles, California. Again, I think that's a little weird New York Seltzer water bottled in LA or under the authority of some LA company. The ingredients are carbonated water, cane sugar, citric acid, and natural flavors. It's a glass bottle, it's recyclable, it's got these nice little twist cap.

So yeah, let's check this out um if I remember right the cap says something, yes it does. This one is different than the last one, "drink up we'll make more", I always like Snapple and Sobe, and I don't know if Sobe still does it, but in the late 90s early 2000s they would do this on their lids just, just amusing kind of like the, um, is it dove chocolates that have the words?

So it smells like root beer, it smells a lot like root beer, go ahead and get some here in Mr. Moose. Nice carbonation

Just get into his nose a little there, I don't know how well you guys can see this, uh, I need to get a second camera, there's a lot of carbonation again now. It kind of, now that it's out of the glass or out of the bottle into the glass, it has the same kind of smell that the last one did but it still does have a decidedly root beer scent.

I'm going to get a quick sip of water here to make sure my mouth is nice and cleared out, I filmed a gut shot right before this and it was rather potent don't want it to adulterate the flavor of this. So we'll get Mr. Moose here, again smells like a traditional root beer with just a hint of something else and, I mean that could be the carbonation having some kind of effect on the, you know, the receptors in your nose.

Yeah, all right, bottoms up! See, now it doesn't taste like what it smells like again. I don't know if that's because of the level of carbonation or if there's maybe some sort of mineral content to the water, what did they say it was just water, carbonated water yeah. It could be the amount of sugar so it kind of takes away that little bit of bite that the root beer has. And we know it's not actual root beer, it's just flavored natural flavors, whatever that is, it's not bad there's not a lot of taste there though.

It does have that slightly weird tail to the taste like the last one did, um, I'm not too familiar with seltzer water so it's probably just a trait of seltzer water. It's not something I would buy again, um, if you served it to me I would drink it if it was the only option. I'd totally drink it just like the vanilla one. Um, I think I had said that the vanilla one would go well with, uh, dessert if you had something bitter but I don't think this would. It's not very sweet, you can definitely taste the cane sugar, but the natural flavors don't make it pop as much as it did in the vanilla.

Yeah, I'm just going to wrap it up there. There's not a lot to say about this, there's a pretty pretty light flavor there, so yeah that was Original New York Seltzer naturally flavored root beer soda, thanks for stopping by. See you guys next time, like, comment subscribe, Patreon in the doobly-doo, check out some other videos. See you guys!

Trying Olipop Classic Root Beer

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Hey YouTube, what's going on? We're back in the drink series today, um, we've done Olipop before. I really liked that orange thing they have, I said it tasted like Sprite, it really does taste like Sprite to me. Um, so today we have Olipop Classic root beer tonic water. It's a sparkling tonic, supports digestive health, prebiotics, botanicals, and plant fiber, plant-powered, microbiome approved, two grams of sugar per can, non-GMO, uh we'll go into the ingredients. We have purified water, and then their olismart compound which is chicory root, Jerusalem artichoke, kudzu root, cassava fiber, cassava syrup, marshmallow root, slippery elm bark, nopal cactus, calendula flour, and then after that we have apple juice, lemon juice, organic root beer flavor extract, stevia, burdock root, pink rock salt, vanilla bean essence, sweet birch extract. Manufactured for Olipop Inc in Oakland, California 94610. Drinkollipop.com.

So serving sizes one can, contains three percent juice, 35 calories per can, zero grams of fat, 25 milligrams of sodium, 12 grams of carbohydrates which includes 9 grams of dietary fibers, and 2 grams of sugars. Not a significant source of yadda yadda, part of a 2000 calorie diet it is certified gluten-free, vegan, no sugars added, and paleo. "We've spent years crafting a drink that's as good for your digestion as it is delicious. ollipop combines the benefits of prebiotics plant fiber botanicals and a sparkling tonic that supports your microbiome and benefits digestive health our old-fashioned root beer melds just the right mix of classic bite and creamy sweetness with the extracts of sweet birch smooth vanilla bean and real burdock root".

I think i'm really a fan of this company, uh, they have two flavors that Ii'm really interested in one being this as I love root beer, if you've watched any videos before I've done root beer several times now, and I just love root beer. It takes me back to a place in my childhood in the early to mid-90s where we would go to Mug'N'Bun, which is a drive-in place next to Speedway in Indianapolis, it's I don't know 70 to 80 years old at this point, multiple owners and you know you just drive in kind of like Arf and barf Dog and Suds or Sonics but just, just an old school drive-in and you know they have a great pork tenderloin and hot dogs but they make their own in-house root beer it is so good and you would go get your root beer float or whatever and you know, so root beer takes me there and I like it and some root beer is absolute hogwash cow urine disgusting vile stuff, and some root beer is just an experience and wonderful so let's get some of this root beer, um what was it called, sparkling tonic into Mr. Moose.

Normal can sound.

First, let's smell it. Oh yeah, this, this, this smells just like a good, not like Mug'N'Bun's, kind of like Mug'N'Bun's, maybe um like Dog and Suds or IBC root beer.

Yeah, I'd say it's going from memory here it's probably close to Dog and Suds. I don't know if they're still around or if you can still get it in the bottles but we used to get it at the convenience store, yeah.

Get some in the Moose.

Um, I love these guys so much, and this is not sponsored at all, um these things are expensive at about three dollars a can shipped, so you know they're definitely a treat, but they do have that fiber and stuff in there which is nice I've been enjoying the orange ones I think I'm halfway through my 12-pack.

How did you smell so lovely, you can smell, you can definitely smell the vanilla in there a little.

Oh man, sorry I could sniff this all day. Let's try it. That's pleasant, um, like I said with their orange whatever it's called, it does have like a, a light taste to it. Not necessarily watered down, that would not be fair at all to say it's watered down, but it's, it's the taste you're expecting but lighter so it's not overpowering. There's no slimy sticky sugary feel because it doesn't have a lot of sugar but it still is, it's sweet enough.

Man, that is good. I need to try this with some ice cream, that would um, I feel horrible, I've dripped little drops of my precious root beer!

All right, I gotta put that down or I'm gonna drink it all. I'm gonna slurp the can, that's better, oh actually it looks like I've got some on the table too. All right we'll have to clean up, um yeah, I would buy more of this. I would absolutely buy more of this, it feels wrong paying three dollars ish for something that's 35 calories a can but I mean you are getting 36 percent of your fiber for the day, and I can, and yeah I have, I bought a 12 pack of these so I'll be trying not to drink them all, you know in a couple of days. Try to make them last, I'm definitely going to order some more though it'll be a couple of weeks probably, but yeah, Olipop man. Watching that commercial on the Buff Dudes for Olipop, because the buff dudes were sponsoring Ollipop may have been the greatest thing I've ever done. Now I kind of wonder if that fancy cereal they're always, you know, trying to promote is any good that's, that's so good. I'm gonna have some more of this. I, just sorry Mr. Moose, this is all mine!

That felt really wrong drinking it that fast, I should have savored that but I got about a half a can left. Um, yeah, like, comment, subscribe, check out the Patreon, the audio is not the best you're probably getting some of the glare off of my lenses. I'm still working on that figuring out the best angles for my lightboxes, I need to work on the sound in here, it is pretty echoey but making do just using my iPhone SE 2020.

Thanks for stopping by check out some Olipop, again not sponsored, um I don't have a discount coupon code or anything. They do have this in stores some places, go to what was it drinkolipop.com, look it up, from the store locator, see if they've got something near you. Fresh Thyme near me is supposed to have this but they didn't, instead, they had a cola one which has caffeine and the orange one which I tried and liked. So yeah, check them out, like, comment, subscribe, Patreon, doobley-do, check out other videos. I'll see you guys next time!

Trying Hansen's Cane Soda Root Beer

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Hey YouTube, what's going on? Right out of the gate I want to apologize if you hear the heat going, it is very cold outside, we are well below freezing it's pretty much turning on every few minutes, so it's kind of hard to film today. We're going to be doing this Hanson's cane soda naturally flavored, and other natural flavors root beer

This is just like a generic kind of soda it comes in a little I think six-packs maybe four-packs, little cardboard deals, I think it's four-packs, sorry for not knowing this, I bought a lot of sodas recently for this review series on drink reviews.

At Hanson's we're all about crafting remarkable flavor from simple ingredients. real cane sugar, of course, hey we began in California so for us, nothing is too bold or unconventional, always free from artificial flavors, sodium, caffeine. This is what organic tastes like it is a non-GMO project verified.

Made with real cane sugar, caffeine-free, gluten-free, sodium-free. It's 160 calories in one can, zero fat, zero sodium, 41 grams of carbs, which includes 41 grams of added sugars, so again all of your flavor and this like many of the other drink reviews I've been doing all your calories come from pure sugar, not something great but as a treat sure. I would never drink these regularly even if I loved them, uh if I was going to drink one regularly I would probably drink the Olipop which I've done a previous video on one of the flavors probably be another one coming soon if there wasn't already at this point. Don't know what order I'm going to release these videos in but I do have the root beer from Olipop and I have tried it, and it is good, and I'm going to do a video on it if it's not up already. If I was going to regularly drink soda so I'd drink those because they're very low calorie and they have a lot of fiber added and they're expensive so it stays a treat and not a common thing. These, I mean, 41 grams of added sugar. You're basically drinking diabetes in a can, I'm sure it tastes lovely, it may or may not, but you know clearly someone enjoys it because they keep making it and if you drink this stuff in moderation great, but I would never advocate drinking this stuff regularly. I know this is a drink review series but uh just, just, moderation people, moderation, um a lot of people have a lot of liquid calories with this stuff, I'm preaching now you don't care so let's get on with it.

You know, the standard can sound a lot of carbonation coming out let's get some here Mr. Moose.

Definitely has a decent color for a root beer.

Smells more like root beer than, um, another one I tried which you've probably seen the video for at this point.

This definitely smells like IBC. or Dog and Suds, or Barq's root beer. It has a very classic root beer scent which is promising.

Oh yeah, that's good, it's just generic root beer. I'm not sure that's what they were going for but that's it's just generic root beer flavor.

It's, um, it's definitely not stronger than, um, a typical root beer. If anything it's a little more mellow, it doesn't have that like harsh bite that some root beers have. I think in a float this would probably get watered down a lot in flavor by whatever ice cream you're using, if you're using, you know, just vanilla or vanilla bean I think it would really take away from the flavor of this. Obviously, you have to try that yourself but definitely not what I would go for for a float based on the, uh, the drink itself, it's um, you can definitely feel the sugar in it though. I'm getting that fuzzy tongue and the, uh, the tooth film right away.

Yeah, if you have Hanson's anywhere near you definitely worth trying, um, you do have to buy like I said either four or six in a little case but it was, it was pretty cheap. I think I paid two or three dollars for four or six cans so very cost-competitive. Sorry for those of you that don't like the sound, I'm going to slurp the can, it just bothers me when there's that liquid floating around.

Yeah, that was Hansen's cane soda, 160 calories of sugar from presumably sugar cane.

Yeah, sorry, I...I love root beer. I grew up next to a drive-in restaurant called Mug'N'Bun which has been in Indianapolis, it's in the Speedway area, like right on the edge of Speedway, it's been there for probably 75 or 80 years at this point, last I knew it was on its third or fourth owner in that period and they make their own root beer and it is so good and it just takes me into childhood so I love trying root beers and when they get close to that i just get happy because I'm taken back to the mid and early 90s when things were great and I was first discovering the internet and there were a bunch of fun movies that I've now watched hundreds, if not thousands, of times or at least listened to them that many times. Root beer is magical it's, it's so fun, and it's something you can make at home if you really wanted to. I might do that eventually try making some root beer, um, I imagine I would never make anything even as good as this but it could be fun.

Yeah, that was Hansen's root beer. Thanks for stopping by. Like, comment, subscribe, tell me you hate me, say you hate when I do this pitcher thing, remind me that I need to lose some weight because I definitely do, I've got a bit, a bunch of fat rolls there, the sugary soda's probably not helping. I'm not going to finish this, it will go down the drain and I'll save the remaining ones of this as a special treat. Yeah, see you guys next time!

Trying Virgil's Handcrafted Root Beer

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Okay hey YouTube, uh we're here in the drink review series again, um we got our little moose mug from Christmas Vacation today we're doing Virgil's handcrafted root beer. This kid is way too excited you'll have to look at the beginning of the video and see the the, uh,

exuberance he is expressing over two very large mugs of root beer and the girl oddly holding a malamute or husky. Interesting choices, I'm guessing that's probably Virgil's kids in real life, if you know let me know down in the doobley-do. So, right off this is part of the non-GMO project verified, because you know, whatever. Uh I'll just start reading the label here - before handcrafting was a thing Virgil's had a vision to create a refreshing beverage that tasted like something, not of this world, I apologize for that sound, Virgil's expertly blended the finest natural ingredients and spices to create this award-winning root beer the ingredients are sparkling filtered water, cane sugar, natural flavors, caramel color, and citric acid it was manufactured for Reeds Incorporated in Norwalk, Connecticut. There are 170 calories per 355-milliliter bottle, no sodium, 42 grams carbohydrates, 42 grams of sugars which includes 42 grams of added sugars, so basically all the calories from this come from added sugar not the greatest thing okay for a treat every now and then I guess, zero grams of protein, no appreciable percentages of anything else. So you'll forgive me I have never used this bottle opener before, I just grabbed it off my keys let's get it open here all right.

Trying not to cut myself on this blade.

Well, this thing's not really going to work well. Is it.

I'm sure I'm doing this horrible and everyone in the comments is going to tell me but this is what I have to work with so you'll forgive me while I, uh, butcher myself here. There we go.

Oops. I will get this, I am not incompetent, okay maybe I am a little, like I legitimately don't know if I have another bottle opener in the house so bear with me here

Uh, if you'd like to support me on Patreon so I can buy real bottle openers oh good grief all right this is getting pretty dumb. Look at my thumb, uh yeah, we might be trying this. I wish it was a twist cap all right we're just going to cut it right there and I'll be right back. Sorry for the jump edit there, let's uh, let's try this that thing is garbage and I'm not putting it back on my keys. Oh for crying out loud.

And, of course, now the cap's just bending because I've angled it there we go. Huzzah! Okay, yeah that one might not like I, I'm not fond of that smell, so we'll go ahead and give you a pour in Mr. Moose here. There is some water in this, I've rinsed it out.

Sorry, I do this thing with my arm over here.

A little bit of carbonation.

Okay.

Yeah, I don't know about that.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of this. Not a fan of this at all. It um, doesn't actually taste like any root beer I've ever had.

There is a very very light root beer taste there but there's something else that's just, uh yeah, let me try, yeah. Definitely not a fan of that. Um, it's not like Barqs, it's not like IBC, if you've ever been to central Indiana I'd definitely say it's not like Mug'n'Bun, it's, it's not like store brand root beer, it is a decidedly different taste. I'm not sure what awards they have won but it's basically just cane sugar in some kind of weird caramel flavor. Not even caramel, but some sort of caramelized flavor,.

Definitely would not recommend this. You might try it yourself, let me know if you have, let me know if it's your favorite or if you don't like it like I do. I'm definitely pouring this down the drain, it's just a bunch of sugar and I'm not going to enjoy it so why subject myself to all that sugar. Yeah, again I apologize about the noise, the echo I definitely need to do something with the sound in this room, you could help me via Patreon, you don't have to, I would appreciate it. I know I mentioned it a lot, I don't have a lot of disposable income to put into this but I would love to, I would love to make better quality videos. I'm going to be trying a lot of stuff here while it's cold out or on rainy weeks and stuff. Drink series, haven't started the food series yet if you're watching this as it goes up, but I plan to do that eventually sometimes too. We're far enough away from the city that, you know, we only drive in once a week for groceries and stuff and it's, you know, 25 30 minutes each way so, uh, once a month I might get some fun food when we're out and about or something and let you know or if we ever go out to eat if this whole situation we're all living in calms down I might start doing that but for now drinks! I'll be getting back to the garden stuff soon, check out the lists, there's a list for my drink reviews, there will be a list for garden stuff, and if I do anything else. Thanks for stopping by see you guys next time!

Trying Virgil's Handcrafted Root Beer

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Okay hey YouTube, uh we're here in the drink review series again, um we got our little moose mug from Christmas Vacation today we're doing Virgil's handcrafted root beer. This kid is way too excited you'll have to look at the beginning of the video and see the, the, uh, exuberance he is expressing over two very large mugs of root beer and the girl oddly holding a malamute or husky. Interesting choices, I'm guessing that's probably Virgil's kids in real life, if you know let me know down in the doobley-do. So, right off this is part of the non-GMO project verified, because you know, whatever. Uh I'll just start reading the label here - before handcrafting was a thing Virgil's had a vision to create a refreshing beverage that tasted like something, not of this world, I apologize for that sound, Virgil's expertly blended the finest natural ingredients and spices to create this award-winning root beer the ingredients are sparkling filtered water, cane sugar, natural flavors, caramel color, and citric acid it was manufactured for Reeds Incorporated in Norwalk, Connecticut. There are 170 calories per 355-milliliter bottle, no sodium, 42 grams carbohydrates, 42 grams of sugars which includes 42 grams of added sugars, so basically all the calories from this come from added sugar not the greatest thing okay for a treat every now and then I guess, zero grams of protein, no appreciable percentages of anything else. So you'll forgive me I have never used this bottle opener before, I just grabbed it off my keys let's get it open here all right.

Trying not to cut myself on this blade.

Well, this thing's not really going to work well. Is it.

I'm sure I'm doing this horrible and everyone in the comments is going to tell me but this is what I have to work with so you'll forgive me while I, uh, butcher myself here. There we go.

Oops. I will get this, I am not incompetent, okay maybe I am a little, like I legitimately don't know if I have another bottle opener in the house so bear with me here

Uh, if you'd like to support me on Patreon so I can buy real bottle openers oh good grief all right this is getting pretty dumb. Look at my thumb, uh yeah, we might be trying this. I wish it was a twist cap all right we're just going to cut it right there and I'll be right back. Sorry for the jump edit there, let's uh, let's try this that thing is garbage and I'm not putting it back on my keys. Oh for crying out loud.

And, of course, now the cap's just bending because I've angled it there we go. Huzzah! Okay, yeah that one might not like I, I'm not fond of that smell, so we'll go ahead and give you a pour in Mr. Moose here. There is some water in this, I've rinsed it out.

Sorry, I do this thing with my arm over here.

A little bit of carbonation.

Okay.

Yeah, I don't know about that.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of this. Not a fan of this at all. It um, doesn't actually taste like any root beer I've ever had.

There is a very very light root beer taste there but there's something else that's just, uh yeah, let me try, yeah. Definitely not a fan of that. Um, it's not like Barqs, it's not like IBC, if you've ever been to central Indiana I'd definitely say it's not like Mug'n'Bun, it's, it's not like store brand root beer, it is a decidedly different taste. I'm not sure what awards they have won but it's basically just cane sugar in some kind of weird caramel flavor. Not even caramel, but some sort of caramelized flavor,.

Definitely would not recommend this. You might try it yourself, let me know if you have, let me know if it's your favorite or if you don't like it like I do. I'm definitely pouring this down the drain, it's just a bunch of sugar and I'm not going to enjoy it so why subject myself to all that sugar. Yeah, again I apologize about the noise, the echo I definitely need to do something with the sound in this room, you could help me via Patreon, you don't have to, I would appreciate it. I know I mentioned it a lot, I don't have a lot of disposable income to put into this but I would love to, I would love to make better quality videos. I'm going to be trying a lot of stuff here while it's cold out or on rainy weeks and stuff. Drink series, haven't started the food series yet if you're watching this as it goes up, but I plan to do that eventually sometimes too. We're far enough away from the city that, you know, we only drive in once a week for groceries and stuff and it's, you know, 25 30 minutes each way so, uh, once a month I might get some fun food when we're out and about or something and let you know or if we ever go out to eat if this whole situation we're all living in calms down I might start doing that but for now drinks! I'll be getting back to the garden stuff soon, check out the lists, there's a list for my drink reviews, there will be a list for garden stuff, and if I do anything else. Thanks for stopping by see you guys next time!