Abita Root Beer

 When I came across Abita Root Beer I knew I had to try it.  My husband is familiar with Abita's beer, which is name checked alot in television any time you have a show set in Louisiana (True Blood, I'm looking at you).

Now, Abita has a fairly normal list of ingredients, right up until you hit yucca root.  What is yucca root?

From their website:  Abita Root Beer is made with a hot mix process using spring water, herbs, vanilla and yucca (which creates foam). Unlike most soft drink manufacturers, Abita sweetens its root beer with pure Louisiana cane sugar. The resulting taste is reminiscent of soft drinks made in the 1940s and 1950s, before bottlers turned to corn sugar and fructose. Some soft drink makers add caffeine to their product, but Abita is naturally caffeine-free.

So, there's that.  The rest of the ingredients are:   Carbonated water, cane sugar, caramel color, root beer flavor, phosphoric acid

It comes in a squat little brown bottle which is very nice to hold in your hand.  Nicely carbonated, with a good, yet clean mouthfeel.  Not too sweet.  Fairly standard "root beer" flavor- none of the notes stand out particularly, just a nice root beer flavor.  I would recommend this if you like your rootbeer to be very balanced flavor without being sugary.