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Small Town Brewery is dedicated to crafting gruit-inspired beers. Gruit–German for herbs–describes the ancient practice of bittering ales with roots, spices, flowers, and berries. Tim Kovac, founder and brewmaster of Small Town Brewery, uses a proprietary technique to infuse a specialty blend of herbs and spices into his brewing process to create gruit-inspired beers with the unmistakable taste of nostalgia featuring classic American flavors.

Admin Note: Small Town Brewery and Taproom have closed after the sale of the brand in 2018. 2019 relaunched with a new brand under the Pabst umbrella with only 2 products. The original owner of Small Town has opened a up a new brewery in Cary, IL under the name Spirit Water
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smith4498 (4268) reviewed
Not Your Father's Root Beer from Small Town Brewery
11 years ago
6.5/10 — 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
jcwattsrugger (14885) ticked
Not Your Father's Root Beer from Small Town Brewery
11 years ago
6/10
Tried on 06 Sep 2015 at 13:43
Weihenweizen (7507) reviewed
Not Your Father's Root Beer from Small Town Brewery
11 years ago
7/10 — 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
stevoj (19093) reviewed
Not Your Father's Root Beer from Small Town Brewery
11 years ago
7.6/10 — 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
NotABeerProfessor (3597) reviewed
Not Your Father's Root Beer from Small Town Brewery
11 years ago
4.9/10 — 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
westchesterco (2479) reviewed
Not Your Father's Root Beer from Small Town Brewery
11 years ago
7/10 — 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
iphonephan (11567) reviewed
Not Your Father's Root Beer from Small Town Brewery
11 years ago
6.2/10 — 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
solidfunk (22755) reviewed
Not Your Father's Root Beer from Small Town Brewery
11 years ago
6.8/10 — 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
JK (8152) reviewed
Not Your Father's Root Beer from Small Town Brewery
11 years ago
2.6/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 2 Texture 2 Overall 0.5
I have been hearing how good this is so i picked up a few bottles. I love root beer, and drink ot frequently. This has a little of the standard root beer aroma and some of the flavor, ut it is extremely sweet and there is what i perceive to be an off flavor of chemicals that combined with the sugar, made this indrinkable to me.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Aug 2015 at 09:24
Travlr (34369) reviewed
Not Your Father's Root Beer from Small Town Brewery
11 years ago
7.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle. Clear amber brown color. Aroma is exactly root beer. So is the taste. Wow. Glad my first was the lower alcohol version though.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Aug 2015 at 19:59