Issaquah's original XXX Restaurant was located on Sunset Way near the location of Flintoft's Funeral Home. That restaurant, which was known by locals as "The Barrel", operated until the 1950's when the location was needed for a car dealer's parking lot. Today's XXX Root Beer Drive-In opened in 1968 at its current location.
The restaurant serves up 1950's style hamburgers and dairy concoctions in large serving sizes, and is proud to host frequent gatherings of vintage automobile and motorcycle enthusiasts.
Now a family-owned business, the restaurant was purchased in March 1999 by Jose Enciso and his wife. Originally from Mexico, Jose has worked in restaurants since he was a young teenager. He takes special pride in owning and improving such a visible Issaquah landmark and says, 'XXX may not be the oldest historic building in Issaquah, but it's probably the one which is most visited and enjoyed.'"
Product details: 12 fl. oz. Tripple XXX Root Beer Co., W. Lafayette, IN. 160 calories, 42g sugar. Glass bottle with twist off top. http://triplexrootbeer.com/
Ingredients: Carbonated water, pure cane sugar, caramel color, natural and artificial flavors, sodium benzoate (preserves freshness), citric acid.
My thoughts: When one drinks a root beer such as Triple XXX, should one expect it to be similar to xXx Vin Diesel, or closer to "I am Groot beer" Vin Diesel? I'm hoping my Triple XXX root beer is closer to the later than the former.
You know, as long as I'm on a tangent, I have to ask, is it "triple x" or "triple triple x"? Are we adding it up and getting Sexa-X root beer? Multiplying and getting X9 root beer? Or, since the "Triple" is over the "XXX", is it division, giving us "Single X" root beer? Who knows?
My initial impression is that the rootiness is little weak, an odd trait seeing as how Vin Diesel is not known for being a weak specimen of the human race. It's serviceable, but not super impressive. While it avoids the candy-like qualities of many other root beers, there isn't a whole lot of apparent complexity. There may be a bit of vanilla, but I can't seem to detect anything else. Nothing is revealed by the aftertaste. Just the watery rootiness fading away.
Vin Diesel usually plays gruff, manly characters. Not too many would call them overly sweet people. And this root beer holds true. It's sweetness is spot on. Another word that would not describe Vin Diesel's personality in these films is "bubbly," and true to that description, this root beer is decidedly not bubbly. In fact, it's pretty dang flat. I'm not impressed. As such, there is little carbonation to take away from the smoothness, so it ends up feeling quite smooth, though not particularly creamy.
Well, I hate to say it, but this drink hails much closer to xXx Vin Diesel than Guardians of the Galaxy Vin Diesel. If anyone says this is the only root beer they have on hand at the party, I suggest hoping into your souped-up car and racing down to the store to select something better. It's not terrible like Babylon A.D. by any means, just uninspired and boring, the Riddick of root beers if you will. In the meantime, I'll be out trying to track down The Iron Giant of root beers.
Rating: C-
flavor: C-
aftertaste: C-
sweetness: B
smoothness: C
carbonation: D-
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