Kutztown

The Pooj does Magritte.

(Rocket Fizz, June 2010)

Kutztown Premium Original Recipe Root Beer takes us back to the old country, assuming that ye olde country converses auf Deutsche, as suggested by the “Nix Besser” stated on the label. “Nix besser”, translates roughly to “nothing better” auf englisch – Kutztown’s claim to quality. Either that or Nix Besser is the company that makes Kutztown. But seeing as the label also states that the Kutztown Bottling Company makes Kutztown Premium Original Recipe Root Beer, and seeing as the Nix Besser Company actually happens to be a livestock company, and also seeing as I don't think I'd want to drink original recipe anything from a livestock company, my money is on the former…

Too bad though, because this root beer may as well have been made by the latter. Real sugar instead of HFCS, but it still tastes a little watery, maybe because it was already somewhat flat even straight out of the bottle.Even though the label said that it would be foamy, there wasn’t really any head to speak of. Interestingly enough, there was more root beer flavor in the aftertaste than there was in the actual taste. While the missus thought it tasted like carbonated tea, upon further consideration, I thought it tasted a little like prune juice, with added hints of Chinese preserved prune.

On that note, you’d think that Kutztown would get a 1 because, I mean, prune juice couldn’t be better than durian juice, right? Well actually, I kind of like Chinese preserved prunes... Just not in my root beer. And that has no bearing whatsoever on what we're talking about here... In any event, the herb-y aftertaste was acceptable enough to lift it above a 1, but not much higher. I’ll give it a 1.5.