5 - Faygo Root Beer
Faygo is based out of Detroit, Michigan, according to Wikipedia and was founded in 1907. They had around 57 beverage options in 2025. Interestingly enough, Faygo root beer ranked as the best-tasting root beer in a September 2009 issue of Bon Appetit, which makes trying it more appealing.
I found my bottle of Faygo at a Kwik Star gas station in Ankeny, IA.
Branding
As far as branding goes, I kind of like the cartoony logo and the label’s look. The cola looks like a typical brown root beer label, and the soda's color is also the typical one you would associate with root beer.
This was a fairly large bottle at 24 oz. I really couldn’t drink all of it and it wouldn’t have been good for me to do so.
Taste and Ingredients
Faygo has a strong root beer smell, but almost no carbonation. The Faygo mix is a strong root beer flavor, but nothing really unique. Interestingly, Faygo contains both high-fructose corn syrup and sucralose though.
I would call this a generic root beer with a fairly generic flavor. Faygo’s biggest claim to fame is that it’s cheap and you get more bang for your buck than most other brands.
I do feel like it had a bit of a blah after taste as well.
Here’s a full list of ingredients:
The Wrap Up
Faygo Root Beer is not my favorite root beer. But it is far from the worst that I have had. If you need a lot of root beer for a party, you might consider this brand, as it is cheaper than many of the more popular ones.
If your audience is more discerning, though, you should do yourself a favor and just get a 1919 root beer keg. That tastes better and might even end up being the same cost or close to it in the end.