The kids out there have no idea who Gene Autry is. To be honest, I really didn’t know what Mr Autry is famous for aside from a couple Christmas songs. I had to do a quick Wikipedia search (of course everything on Wikipedia is correct) to at least figure out why he was famous. The Singing Cowboy has quite the resume in the early twentieth century. I could continue singing his praises but I’m not here to paint his biography but review his namesake root beer. As the kids would say, it’s mid. It is a shadow of the stalwart A&W brand. I say that because it has the present vanilla/caramel combo but it’s so light tasting that it doesn’t pop the way A&W does. It’s definitely not a bad root beer and I could chug a couple of these back-to-back but it’s missing the name brand flavor zest. I wouldn’t go out of my way for it and I am sure the more casual root beer fans out there would feel the same as well. It’s an average root beer but the good Mr. Autry is not. Alexa, as the kids today would say, play Gene Autry’s “Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.”