24 - Old Red Eye Root Beer
Orca Beverage Inc produces a lot of soda, including several root beers such as Bedford’s and O-so Butterscotch root beer, so it’s fun to find yet another Orca-related root beer: Old Red Eye, which may or may not be named after an old bull when this drink was first bottled back in 1948.
Let’s see how Old Red Eye turns out!
Branding
Old Red Eye goes for a bold red label with a somewhat cartoony bull in its logo. For some reason, they chose to put the Orca logo on the cap rather than keeping with the root beer’s name, which is a departure from some of their other root brews.
I have seen this bottle in a few places so you might be able to find it as well. Mug has a reddish look to its labeling as well, but it doesn’t go for a full red logo like Old Red Eye does.
Taste and Ingredients
Old Red Eye is caffiene free and gluten free. They also use pure cane sugar as their sweetener, and the ingredients are nice and short.
When you first open the bottle, you get a pretty standard root beer aroma. The flavor reminds me mostly of Mug. It doesn’t really have any unique flavor of its own, with maybe just a hint of licorice, even though that’s not listed as an ingredient.
The drink isn’t super fizzy or frothy, but it’s also not creamy like A&W or some other brands.
The Wrap Up
I enjoyed Old Red Eye root beer. It has a nice flavor, though it doesn’t really distinguish itself from the competition. You can find similar flavors at a lesser price by purchasing something like Mug, but if you care about drinks that aren’t overly processed with lots of unpronounceable words, then you’ll probably prefer Old Red Eye.