IBC

Many years ago I worked on an Off-Off-Broadway show. We were reviewed in Backstage, a trade newspaper, and the review wasn't exactly flattering. However, as someone pointed out, they did review us, which meant that we had met a certain standard - we were good enough to review, even if the review wasn't particularly good. My review of IBC falls into this same, paradoxical category.

Simply put, IBC lacks personality. It's decently sweet, a bit creamy (though only a bit), and there is a bit of earthiness to it, but that's it. No licorice, no mint, no anise This is an uninteresting root beer. It has decent body, a little too much carbonation, and that's it, really. There's nothing else.

IBC's bottles do deserve note, though, as their labeling is molded into them. Until recently, this made returning them difficult (you can't mold a bar code into glass), but I see that they have started to affix a bar code sticker to their bottles. Aside from this sticker, however, all of the fine print is only on the bottle cap and the six-pack cardboard, leaving the bottles with a distinctive, slightly peculiar, slighlty old fashioned look.

But it doesn't make thre root beer any better.

Grade: 4

160 calories per 12 ounce bottle = 13.3 Calories per ounce (normal)
http://www.ibcrootbeer.com/