Sparkling Ice is a flavored sparkling water company with zero sugar. Usually, Sparkling Ice is also caffeine-free, but, funnily enough, their Root Beer flavor is in their caffeine line, so that’s what we are trying today!
Sparkling Ice has lots of other flavors, so if you don’t like root beer, you can try one of their other flavors.
Branding
If you’re looking for Sparkling Ice, you will notice the brand. Often, the Sparkling Ice brand uses plastic bottles for their drinks, but for their Caffeine line, they use an aluminum can.
The Sparkling Ice logo is nice and large, but I actually found it hard to tell that this was root beer. I only looked at it because of the color of the can.
Taste and Ingredients
Sparkling Ice Root Beer has less than 2% of fruit and vegetable juice, but you can’t tell it has any. When you pop the tab, the smell of root beer is very faint.
Interestingly enough, there is a definite root beer flavor to this drink. I usually don’t think sparkling water has much flavor at all, but they did an okay job at it. The drink has more carbonation than I expected as well.
However, the root beer flavor itself is kind of bleh. I didn’t really care for it. The after taste is kind of yuck too, but that may be the sucralose. I don’t usually like the artificial sweeteners very much.
The Wrap Up
The end result is that I can see why people like sparkling water as an alternative to a soda. They certainly don’t have the calories or the sugar. But they also aren’t as good, at least from my experience.
However, Sparkling Ice is better than most of the sparkling waters I have had, and it’s definitely better than the probiotic root beers, too.