It's still Scotland's leading soft drink and you can buy the original high-sugar recipie:

https://irn-bru.co.uk/products/1901

That's the original recipe, but not the one that was known as Irn Bru immediately before the sugar tax -- it's got no caffeine in it. I've not tried it.

Any changes made before I started drinking it are merely historical baggage, but any changes made after I started drinking it have a fundamental effect on whether I consider it the same product. See also: "New Coke".

(Also, I can taste Aspartame -- so while many people might say that the low sugar variant is sufficiently similar in taste, I really don't enjoy it. Although, as I posted above, this is probably a good thing.)

They do. Sometimes I see individual cans in K-supermarkets, but otherwise:

https://www.verkkokauppa.com/fi/product/327752/Irn-Bru-virvo...

Ingredients: ... sweeteners (aspartame, acesulfame K)

Unfortunately that's the new "not really Irn Bru" recipe :(.

You can definitely still buy it in Scotland.

You can buy something marketed as Irn Bru, but it's not really Irn Bru. Real Irn Bru does not contain artificial sweeteners.

We're gonna go "No true Scotsman", on irn-bru? That takes some doing!

I get what you're saying, and I kinda believe the best Irn-Bru was the stuff in a glass bottle, delivered to the door, when I was a kid.

But the stuff that's out there, to my mind, is still just fine. It cures hangovers. It tastes of sugar and love, whether there's real sugar, real iron, or real love in it is almost immaterial.

"Made in Scotland, from Girders" :).

Un(?)fortunately I taste Aspartame as being bitter so it's not as sweet for me as it used to be :(. Which is probably a good thing, given how much I used to drink :P.