3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle at a ChrisO tasting - London. Pours clear, red-brown with a filmy white head. Nice root beer aroma (for real, it smells like root beer), some licorice. Hugely sweet flavor with quality root beer character, more licorice and some fruity notes. Light to medium bodied with average carbonation. Sticky sugary sweet finish, pretty true root beer flavor. It’s very sweet, but also very much like root beer. If you like root beer, I would suspect you would like this. I happen to like root beer.
2.3 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Dec 2012 - cold bottle. Not really a beer. Taste is primarily sweet root beer with lots of licorice. A bit medicinal. I thought it was OK.
0.9 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 1/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 3/20
4.0% dark brown colour with no head, cough syrup aroma, tastes like dandelion and burdock mixed with cough medicine, it was horrible.
2.1 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 7/20
Bottle 500ml.
Clear dark red brown colour with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, mint, toothpaste - bubble gum. Flavour is heavy sweet with a average to long duration, mint, toothpaste, bubble gum. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120506]
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottled. Reddish colour, small off-white head. Aroma is rubbery, some spices, mid burnt rubber as well. Flavour is carame, spices, mints, medicine.
1.7 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 6/20
Dark brown colour, frothy top. A strong medicinal aroma and a hint of a malty beer background, a cross between a brewery and a surgery! The taste follows, with herby medicinal flavours and a slight alcohol, beer-like taste in the background. Was on special offer at Tesco, Fakenham, Norfolk so thought i’d give it a go.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle. I used to love root beer as a kid, but it’s actually quite hard to get hold of in the UK for a decent root beer. I was intrigued to see this on the shelf and figured it needed at least a trial. Pours a deep russet brown with a head of fizz which soon disappears leaving it looking flat. It’s not flat at all, and there’s real "pop" carbonation throughout it. There’s that unique root beer smell to it, kind of medicine/medical with saspirilla, cola cubes, anaesthetic smells. Crazy amount of sweetness in the mouth, licorice, more dandilion and burdock tastes. I really want to hate this, but I can’t... it’s root beer! Not a great beer, but quite a decent alcopop.
1.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 5/20
50cl bottle poured into a mug. Looks like root beer. Smells like root beer. Tastes like watered down root beer. Slight alcohol detectable. High carbonation. Not horrible for what it is.
2.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
UPDATED: DEC 5, 2011 Behaves and looks better than beer: mahogany with a thick, stable tan head. Intense, dental aroma. Love root beer so I don’t mind this; violently sweet but the root beer/burdock/liquorice flavour is irresistible. Category A alcopop filth, best sampled under anaesthetic with a dazzling white light shone in your face. And then drooled into a plastic funnel.
2.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
bottle, i cant seriously rate this "beer" but try it. very aromatic like doctors cure. "Baton" aroma, minimal head, clear, brown, lightly bitter, medium sweetness, and again "baton" we callet that flavour, i dont like it so much..i could be root flavour as wellmedium body, thick feel, average carbonation, long rootfinish, not a regular beer, not bad alcoholic lemonade
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