What the heck is a girder though??? (Barr Irn Bru)

Member Name: xxfoxyredxx

Product:	Barr Irn Bru
Date:	10/03/09 (204 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Tasty

Disadvantages: High in calories

In 1901 the drink I'm currently glugging away at was lunched. 90 Years later Diet Iron Bru was launched. Yep 90 years later someone came up with, maybe making a diet version would sell lol. You can even get 'Wkd' Iron Bru nowadays and an energy Iron Bru!

Iron Brew (the Brew was dropped in recent years due to pressure and a legal battle) was originally made in Glasgow and when first advertised (on billboards etc) was very much pushed as 'the other Scottish national drink' however rumour has it that Iron-Bru is actually more popular in Russia than it in Scotland and the Russians prefer it to Coca-Cola! With gallons drunk all around the world this drink is a firm favoured carbonated soft drink no matter which countries are consuming the most!

The Packaging....

The drink is available in many sizes whether it be bottles or cans. Distinctive, it is though and usually a bright orange and electric blue coloured labelling over a see through plastic bottle or aluminium can. The can I'm drinking as I type this is 330ml in size with a ring pull to the top of it as you'd expect of course, and not only am I clearly told what it is and who it's by, I'm given nutritional information, ingredients are listed, told the size and given contact details for Barrs (the manufacturer of the drink). This is standard information given to you no matter how you buy it.

The Drink....

Bright orange in colour and slightly bubbly though not overly so and not particularly fizzy as such. Taste wise it's hard to describe and no one really can definitively say what it is meant to taste of. Rumour has it is citrus based. It contains caffeine and quinine and two colourings that are controversial to some people due to the colourings being E110 and E124. I don't know about these additives at all and am not going to pretend I do so if worried I suggest you look up information on this.

Taste wise to me it is rather sweet. If you want to miss that sweetness then buy the diet version, me I love this for a quick sugar rush and pick me up which I believe it does for me.

It does make your mouth go orange and it does leave a somewhat sour taste coating the mouth after drinking it. For me it doesn't refresh or quench my thirst all that much at all and if I have a huge bottle I do find myself drinking so much trying to rehydrate myself so if thirsty on a hot summers day...well this wouldn't be my drink of choice to be perfectly honest!

It is delicious and intriguing in it's own right though and I am very much a big fan of it and at the moment (at the time of writing this review) it seems to be on offer in alot of places and I only paid 39p for my can! Bargain!

Ingredients....

Carbonated water, Sugar (carbohydrate), Citric Acid, Flavourings (including Caffeine & Quinine), Preservative (E211), Colours E110, E124), Ammonium Ferric Citrate (0.002%)

Nutritional Information.... Per 100ml
Energy 182KJ/43 Kcal
Protein Trace
Carbohydrate 10.5g
Fat 0g
Saturates 0g
Salt Trace

Summary: Lovely!