bottle - Like the other hard root beer I’ve had, it pretty much looks, smells, and tastes like root beer. It’s sweet though maybe not quite as sugary sweet as Not Your Father’s Root Beer. It’s fairly low on carbonation. Alcohol is slightly noticeable. It’s alright.

From notes. This was once unrateable here... 12 ounce bottle shared at the 9th Richmond Rare & Unusual Epic Tasting, Richmond, VA, 11/30/14. Pours a clear copper with a thin head. Fair head retention. Aroma of straight root beer, honey, vanilla. The taste is root beer, vanilla, honey, mild bourbon. Medium bodied, overly sweet but does deliver on the concept.

Bottle from Total Wine in Folsom, CA. Pours dark ruddy brown with a transient beige head. Smells like sarsaparilla. Med minus body. Tastes like a sweet sarsaparilla. Some vanilla, which may be where the bourbon comes in. Not sure I’m getting wood. Finishes too sweet, but that’s just me.

Treated as a root beer with alcohol, this was poured into a mug.
The appearance was a dark brown color with a light rimmed cap of a tan head. Light rings of lacing slide into the beer.
The smell had the qualities of a root beer, subtle cream soda but then the plastic sugary aroma that was mostly displeasing.
The taste was mainly the same overly sweet sugary plastic syrup flavor. Strong sticky overly sweet aftertaste leads into the same finish.
On the palate, it sits pretty light on the body with a crushable sessionability. One could really go apeshit on a four pack of this. Carbonation sits super low and makes me wonder, whoah, hey Nelly, this is a beer.
Overall, the feel is the best thing about it and that’s not saying much. Nice to try, but can’t see myself ever coming back to it.

12 ounce bottle shared by maniac at the 22nd Richmond Gathering. Clear golden, large fizzy off-white head, decent retention. Aroma of ginger ale and white sugar, faint bit of caramelization. The taste is ginger beer, pale malt, lime. Thin bodied. It is what it is.

12 oz bottle from Ratman. Nose is honeycomb, earth, and a hint of molasses. Hazy orange with a medium off white head. Flavor is lightly sweet, lightly bitter, with a caramel malty backbone.

Big nose big after taste no body