Not Your Father's Root Beer Craze

Have you tried it?

 

It'll be short lived. All the people getting cases will get diabetes and just like that...customer base is gone.

 

I've only had a sampler of the 10% version. I like it as a major rootbeer fan, but I'm not especially keen on the idea as a beer enthusiast. It's very much the perfect storm for frathouse parties and bro'ed out bar hopping.

 

I'm guessing it's for the people that don't like the taste of alcohol but want to get drunk.

 

It's a shame I can only like this comment once!

 

Women love it. Write that down.

 

Massive marketing campaign helps .even saw it pushed here as well pretty heavy for awhile.

 

There are three varities: 5.9%, ~10%, & ~20%. The 20% (Not Your Grandfather's Root Beer) is incredible, perfect root beer flavor and booze isn't noticeable aside from a belly warming. 10% is very good too, but the 5.9% offering is waaaaayyyyy to much sweet and not enough booze to cut through it like the 10/20% options.

 

The 10% has a 97 on here but with only 322 ratings. Most of the low raters say that there is nothing beer-like about it. With all the adjunct stuff that we are adding to beer (chocolate, coffee, zests, spices, etc.), we need to make sure something is beer first and a milkshake or whatever second.

 

Wait, you're supposed to rate the beer based upon the beer alone? Don't fruit or ice cream the beer!

 

There's also a non-acoholic version floating around, but I can't comment on it.

In terms of this beer's popularity: It tastes good. People like it. (I know I do.) Pretty straightforward to me...

 

I'm sure if Binnys didn't announce it's arrival and put a bottle limit on it we'd still be seeing it sit on the shelves.

 

stuff is amazing

 

I've seen plenty of stacks wherever I've found it. If there were bottle limits, they were sorely misguided...

Plus, it's on tap all over the place...

 

It's a really incredible beer. Most people like it because it allows them to drink beer without experiencing the flavor of beer. I like it because there are no other beers that are like it (other alcoholic root beers can't touch it). It's also cool comparing the 5.9, 10, and 19 % versions.

It also doesn't hurt that it's been out for several years but was basically unavailable in bottles.

 

Best trade beer I never drank! Seriously, the west coasters go nuts for it. So far I have pulled a Temptation, Black Tuesday, Rye Whiskey Sucré, Tart of Darkness Vanilla/Cherry, and some Almanacs for a couple bombers and a few six packs of this stuff. Have no desire to ever drink it, however.

 

I am a massive root beer fan. If I am ever out and see a root beer that I haven't tried I buy it. The fact that this beer tastes so much like a great root beer, but is actually an alcohol beverage is a major draw for me. If you are a root beer fan this is the holy grail in my opinion.

 

I had the 5.9%, it tasted exactly like root beer. As a root beer fan, I thought it was good, but certainly not a 98 rated beer.

 

I haven't had the 20% one but I would definitely say that the 10% is better than the 5.9%. For some reason I got more alcohol taste in the 5.9% one; a slight nail polish remover flavor. The 10% one though is like the perfect root beer like you said. Great mouthfeel on that beer too.