Another one that I’d been after for a long time. I was afraid I’d never get it, but then anthony saved the day, as he often does. The Brooklyn Bottling Company, who makes this, has been around since 1937 but I’m not sure if this root beer has been around that long. They do go for that old fashioned soda fountain look with their labeling. The label itself is painted on the bottle, which you don’t see often and makes me happy because it will last longer in my collection and it doesn’t get ruined with water like those paper labels. It’s naturally flavored, which you would expect from something with the name Best Health’s, but the name doesn’t stop them from using sodium benzoate, so maybe there’s a Bester, er Bestester? Health’s out there…
The Body is rich and full. There’re caramel and vanilla flavors as well as sort of a creamy cotton candy taste. It’s strange but not bad. The Bite is mild and not noteworthy. The Head is medium but fizzes down quickly. The Aftertaste is some wintergreen and more of that creamy candy with a hint of vanilla.
This is pretty good. I like it but the Head could be better and then it doesn’t quite taste right. Not anything bad or wrong, but the flavor combinations just don’t meld the way I feel a proper brew should. I can’t really explain it but you’ll know what I mean when you drink it. See how it rates against other root beers.
The third flavor of Ramblin’ root beer, the maple root beer. I got curious, with all of these flavors of root beer, just what was the most popular. It turns out butterscotch is. As of the time of this writing (October 2016) I’ve had 8 butterscotch root beers, 6 vanilla root beers, 3 sarsaparilla root beers, just 2 maple root beers, 1 birch root beer, and 1 pumpkin spice root beer. How’s that for some stats? So a maple isn’t a popular name for a root beer, but many more root beers have maple syrup in them, so it’s probably closer to butterscotch in flavor popularity though much lower in the naming. As I said 
I always like it when a soda company makes more than one flavor of root beer. It happens a lot more lately and is a sign of the changing times. People care about root beer more and more, and they want even more variety in that most diverse of beverages. This is great for yours truly. After just a few years of being resurrected by Monarch Beverages, Ramblin’ has launched this and another flavor of root beer, maple (review coming soon). I remember how butterscotch root beers were such a rarity, now they’re everywhere. Another sign of the changing times. The label has an orange butterscotch coloring to it with some butterscotch discs on it as well, just so you know that this is the butterscotch one. I ordered a mixed case of this and the maple on their very first production run so I could be one of the first to try it. Then I queued this review for a year so I probably should have just waited until it showed up locally. Oh well, you never know if it will show up locally (but this time it totally did).
