Not Your Father's Root Beer (10.7%)
Small Town Brewery in Wauconda, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Herbal Regular|
Score
6.65
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Can split at Kennys CPH fart dungeon, thanks to Kenny, 10/05/18. Reddish brown with a decent beige cap. Nose is Raljex, bubblegum, sweet, Red Bull dung effect. Taste continues in a similar vein with a sweet malt base, caramel, Dentine choddy, light spice. Full bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. I thought I was boosted until I saw my fellow raters scores on this Juan !!! Fun enough for a root beer though.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle shared at Ken’s hotel room, Copenhagen - Dark brown pour with small white head. Aroma and taste is very sweet root beer, sweet body, sweet root beer finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
10th May 2018
Hotel tasting. Imperial Hotel. Clear deep amber beer, small pale tan head. Smooth palate, reasonable fine carbonation. Soft malts, little vanilla. Nice sweetish licorice and aniseed, mild spice. Tangy fruits. More vanilla aniseed and licorice. Smooth and well joined up and very drinkable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle at Peg’s Cycle BA Day. Pours a dark brown with small beige head that lasts. The aroma is vanilla, licorice, booze. Medium body, strong licorice, vanilla, very boozy finish, decent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bomber from Winco. Nose is exactly like root beer at first glance, with notes of vanilla and clove, but digging deeper you can pick out definite malted grain--it does smell like real beer underneath all the spices. Pours dark brown with a nice beige head with great retention and some lace. Tastes like root beer, but the strong licorice notes it has are like those you’d find in an imperial stout. Actually really tasty, I just don’t know if I want a whole 22 ounces to myself. Better shared, I think.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Refrigerated brown bomber poured into a snifter. Medium brown with not head. Aroma is saspirilla & alcohol, medium body, low carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is saspirilla and hint of alcohol.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pours a black with an off-white head. Big wintergreen and licorice aroma, similar flavor with a good amount of vanilla, a bit of rooty bitterness. Buuuuuut, still just a soda, feel weird rating it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bomber from WinCo. Dark brown with thick creamy head. Aroma is root beer, some sassafras, some vanilla. Taste takes a downturn. Alcohol burn up front. Licorice obscures the root beer aroma. Sweet, medicinal, earthy. Finishes the same. Started out nice and went downhill from there.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle: Deep brown with a small, off-white head. Huge root beer aroma....sassafras, licorice.... Taste is thick and sweet fountain-sticky root beer.....not much fizz.... A slight alcohol bitter and presence..... Not quite as pleasant as the lower octane version.....just bigger.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
22oz bottle pours a murky brown with a ring of off white head. Nose has caramel and rootbeer and vanilla flavoring. Flavor has rootbeer with a shot of vanilla vodka. Sticky, cloying finish.