JUDGE WAPNER ROOT BEER (4)

Flavor Scale: 4

Oh jeebus...I find myself hard to refuse a root beer that pastes Judge Wapner accusingly pointing at me and sentencing me to drink his root beer. In case you aren't familiar, look up The People's Court. Yet I have some mixed feelings about this company. When I visited Rocket Fizz's website, I was immediately confronted with the visage of Snooki on a soda bottle for "her own" cherry soda. I'm not sure if I felt humored or offended. Then there was the bacon soda......That's it, I'm done! Walking away from the site. So they had this root beer, Judge Wapner Root Beer, and I reviewed it somewhat like this...

I might've burst into tears and cried "Oh God please no! Just send me to jail!" if a judge sentenced me to drink this stuff indefinitely, but that's my, albeit over-dramatic, personal opinion. As you can see on the scale, this one veers rather far from my comfort zone. This ones for the root lovers, or let's just call them Rooters for brevity and the fun of nicknaming's sake. Though I wouldn't necessarily whole-heartedly recommend this one even to y'all; it tastes kind of like a half-assed root beer. Not a lot of strong flavors yet it doesn't quite taste balanced in its sweet and root characteristics. The label off-handedly promotes Pure Cane Sugar but it mostly comes off as a gimmick rather than a noticeable attribute. I would say "not something I would write home about" but that's a situational paradox full of silly.

Seriously though, if you look at the circumstance of where it comes from, a soda company that makes every kind of soda it can come up with (I mean, bacon, it's only liquid form is grease!), Judgy here files right into the category of a flavor hole that they had to fill. Which makes root beer lovers like me really sad. Here's the deal, there's a vast difference in the quality of a root beer based on how much attention it gets. In retrospect, this is a universally applicable predicament. What we learn here is that if you want to find awesome root beer that you might really love, your chances decrease and increase whether the root beer you try comes from a soda chain or a root beer origin or specialty company, respectively.

Now it sounds like a hated this one, but to be honest it wasn't that bad. It just wasn't something I could imagine anyone even of preferable taste falling in love with. You might fall in love with the label perhaps if you were a die-hard Judge Wapner fan, weirdo.

That's all I've got for this one unfortunately. If you've got any questions about it I might be able to answer it better and give a little more detail I might have missed, that's what the comment box is for.