Tonight's beer: Small Town Not Your Father's Root Beer
Sweet. Very, very sweet. Tastes like root beer. Hints of maple and honey; big smears of vanilla and almost-medicinal mint; possibilities of baking spices (mainly allspice and cloves). A thin bready-toasty scrim in the distance. Never bitter; never dry.
Kinda thin, massively carbonated. Tons of syrupy-stickiness that lasts and lasts. Somehow manages to be thirst-quenching without being particularly refreshing. Can you say, "Cloying"? I knew you could.
I'm not sure what to make of this, or what the market for it is or is supposed to be; and I genuinely like root beer. I quess it's a craft (or crafty—I haven't checked the corporate bona fides) malternative, for people who want to drink something with a beerish amount of alcohol in it but don't like the taste of beer (and still want to feel they're supporting a small brewery). There's a reasonable amount of flavor here, at least as far as intensity; most of what I get is sweet, vanilla, mint: nothing else. Maybe a little sloppy, but not badly made. Not much like anything I'd call beer, and not anything I feel a need to drink again.
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| Small Town Not Your Father's Root Beer |
Sweet. Very, very sweet. Tastes like root beer. Hints of maple and honey; big smears of vanilla and almost-medicinal mint; possibilities of baking spices (mainly allspice and cloves). A thin bready-toasty scrim in the distance. Never bitter; never dry.
Kinda thin, massively carbonated. Tons of syrupy-stickiness that lasts and lasts. Somehow manages to be thirst-quenching without being particularly refreshing. Can you say, "Cloying"? I knew you could.
I'm not sure what to make of this, or what the market for it is or is supposed to be; and I genuinely like root beer. I quess it's a craft (or crafty—I haven't checked the corporate bona fides) malternative, for people who want to drink something with a beerish amount of alcohol in it but don't like the taste of beer (and still want to feel they're supporting a small brewery). There's a reasonable amount of flavor here, at least as far as intensity; most of what I get is sweet, vanilla, mint: nothing else. Maybe a little sloppy, but not badly made. Not much like anything I'd call beer, and not anything I feel a need to drink again.
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