Not Your Father's Root Beer
Small Town Brewery in Wauconda, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: City Brewery (La Crosse Plant)Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Spiced Regular
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Score
6.40
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Draught at Hops ’n Headz, Bellingham, WA
Dark amber color. Smells like cinnamon toothpaste, then vanilla and some herbs. Very sweet, bubblegum, some artificial strawberry fruit and vanilla, toothpaste.
Of all root beers I tried, this is not the most offensive; overly sweet, almost drinkable (if you are into this).
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Brown bottle, 12 ounces, via Philippe Boutin (merci!), savoured on March 2 2016; eye: black with ruby reflections, opaque, no effervescence, beige head that disappears rapidly like that of a soft drink, no lacing; nose: root beer, vanilla; mouth: root beer, vanilla, finale in root beer with presence of vanilla, light body, rather carbonated, quite sweet, slick texture; overall: correct FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 12 onces, via Philippe Boutin (merci!), savourée le 2 mars 2016; œil : noire avec des reflets rubis, opaque, pas d’effervescence, mousse beige qui disparaît rapidement comme celle d’une boisson gazeuse, pas de dentelle; nez : bière d’épinette, vanille; bouche : bière d’épinette, vanille, finale en bière d’épinette avec présence de vanille, corps léger, plutôt carbonatée, pas mal sucrée, texture coulante; en résumé : correct
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
can - As others have said, it’s basically root beer. It looks, smells, and tastes like root beer. It’s very sweet. The carbonation is on the low side for root beer. It’s very easy to drink and the alcohol is all but undetectable under all that sugar. It’s enjoyable if you like root beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Pours dark brown with a fizzy/transient beige/tan head. Aroma smells like root beer. Med body or so. Flavor is decent, xpt that there’s way too much sugar. Shame that.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle at craig’s. Pours deep amber, nose is plasters, shoe polish, taste is creamy, cinnamon, aniseed, weird.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Bottle at Craigs. Pours clear dark brown with no head. Aromas of swarfega, dandelion and burdock, I guess root beer. Taste is sweet, gummy sweets. Haribo, but not the nice ones. Sweet finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
bottle at home .. dark brown ... thin white lacing ... big herbal root beer nose ... dark malts ... sweet sugers ... its root beer and root beer... odd but nice
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle: Poured a light black color soda with a small bubbly head. Aroma of root beer with quite a bit of residual sugar notes. Taste is also dominated by sweet notes and taste exactly like a root beer. Body is thin with spritzy carbonation. Interesting but I don’t really drink soda and this is closer to soda than anything else.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Single bottle from Trader Joe in Vegas. Pours a dark brown colour with copper highlights. The head is fizzy, disappears quickly and leaves no lacing. Typical root beer aromas. The taste is like root beer as well with its sweetness, spiciness but it does have some grain flavour found in normal beers. Soapy notes. Not bad at all.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle to pint. How to rate this??? This is awesome root beer! Um...don’t see a base beer but it is awesome root beer. Loads of vanilla. But then again...you made a 5.9 er taste like great root beer! No head and brown. Root beer.