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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Sweet and silky, it goes down smooth and hits your tongue with the perfect combination of vanilla, sarsaparilla and anise.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
17th September 2015
Almost opaque dark brown beer, short lived pale tan head. Strong toot beer nose! Palate is light and mildly crisp. Sweetish malts, some cream and a trace of vanilla. Sarsaparilla and various spices, cooling spices that contrast with the sweetness. Light finish. Spicy linger. Pretty much nails it I reckon, and whilst it is sweet it light and crisp and very drinkable. Great fun!
Almost opaque dark brown beer, short lived pale tan head. Strong toot beer nose! Palate is light and mildly crisp. Sweetish malts, some cream and a trace of vanilla. Sarsaparilla and various spices, cooling spices that contrast with the sweetness. Light finish. Spicy linger. Pretty much nails it I reckon, and whilst it is sweet it light and crisp and very drinkable. Great fun!
Tried
on 20 Sep 2015
at 16:13
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 2.5
Can from Kroger. I’ve wanted to try it, but not in 6-pack form. Thankfully they were singled out today. Pours exactly like cola looks. Sells exactly like root beer with maybe some extra vanilla in there. Taste is an overly sweet vanilla root beer flavor. Can I taste the alcohol? I’m not sure. I’m not sure how to rate this. It’s a bit too candy sweet for me. Had to pour it out. Way too sickingly sweet for me.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Sep 2015
at 18:29
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Pours dark brown color with tan head. Smells and tastes like regular root beer. Just a hint of alcohol. Medium to full body with fizzy carbonation and a syrupy mouthfeel. Average tasting root beer with a kick.
Tried
on 13 Sep 2015
at 19:17
6/10
Tried
on 06 Sep 2015
at 13:43
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Refrigerated 12 oz. brown bottle poured into a snifter. Medium brown no head. Aroma is nice root beer. Taste is root beer with some spices.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Aug 2015
at 18:46
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Albertsons. There’s a reason root beer has "beer" i n the name, and this is it. Deliciously sweet, but lurking in the background is the nugget of old school Brewing, hence the name. Not my father’s, but perhaps my Grandfathers.?
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Aug 2015
at 23:19
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Wow, I’m really not seeing the hype on this one. It has a bit a root beer flavor, but also alot of gentian or whatever they put in Angostura bitters because it smells almost just like that. Semi-sweet medicinal finish. Noticeable alcohol bite at the finish. Cola like pour.
Tried
on 07 Aug 2015
at 20:29
7/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 2
Looks like root beer, smells like root bee, and tastes sweet like root beer. Hmmm must be root beer. Could be that the sweetness conceals the alcohol ?
Tried
on 03 Aug 2015
at 19:48
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
From a 12 oz bottle at home Pours a clear dark cola with a thin off white head. Aroma of root beer. Sweet root beer flavors with a bit of a kick. A good get-your date-drunk beverage.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Aug 2015
at 19:37
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6
I’m assuming it was this one. Dark mahogany. Definitely smells and tastes like root beer. Sweet and fizzy root aroma like drive through A&W. Very sweet. Bottle shared at tasting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Aug 2015
at 12:47