Small Town Brewery - Not Your Father's Root Beer?

[drgarage1]

Had at fest for the first time, pre-hype: "This sucks. Tastes like vodka root beer. *dump*"
Had the 9% more recently: "Okay that's pretty good."
Had the 5% again: "Confirmed as root beer plus vodka."

Yeah, the 9% is pretty impressive. Not the other.

 

[lb304854]

I would assume then the brick and mortar in Wauconda is where they produce the 10% and 19.5% versions for keg distro. Do any other states see these kegs? If not, that would convince me fully.

 

[harrymel1]

Found it. Tastes like root beer.

5/5 for true to style. 1/5 for beer I like.

Will put some up FT if anybody needs a taste since this flies off the shelf!

 

[Gene1]

This product is the worst thing to happen to beer in a while. It's a cheaply produced back-sweetened malt liquor that is very successful at taking market share away from craft. You bet your ass more of the same will follow.

As for my personal opinion, even urine would taste delicious if you added this much root beer flavoring and syrup to it.

 

[SeaWatchman]

This product is the worst thing to happen to beer in a while. It's a cheaply produced back-sweetened malt liquor that is very successful at taking market share away from craft. You bet your ass more of the same will follow.

As for my personal opinion, even urine would taste delicious if you added this much root beer flavoring and syrup to it.

Yeah but how do you really feel?

 

[Doc1]

Yeah but how do you really feel?

 

[SeattleBeerPenguin]

This product is the worst thing to happen to beer in a while. It's a cheaply produced back-sweetened malt liquor that is very successful at taking market share away from craft. You bet your ass more of the same will follow.

As for my personal opinion, even urine would taste delicious if you added this much root beer flavoring and syrup to it.

But there's a barrel aged version, so it's ok!

 

[matedog]

This product is the worst thing to happen to beer in a while. It's a cheaply produced back-sweetened malt liquor that is very successful at taking market share away from craft. You bet your ass more of the same will follow.

As for my personal opinion, even urine would taste delicious if you added this much root beer flavoring and syrup to it.

So you think it tastes delicious?

 

[abawol01]

Love all the "backlash" on this stuff now. It tastes like root beer, has alcohol and makes a great float. What's the ******* problem?

 

[lb304854]

This product is the worst thing to happen to beer in a while. It's a cheaply produced back-sweetened malt liquor that is very successful at taking market share away from craft. You bet your ass more of the same will follow.

As for my personal opinion, even urine would taste delicious if you added this much root beer flavoring and syrup to it.

 

[SeattleBeerPenguin]

Love all the "backlash" on this stuff now. It tastes like root beer, has alcohol and makes a great float. What's the ******* problem?

I think it tastes bad. That's it.

 

[RedCoffee]

Love all the "backlash" on this stuff now. It tastes like root beer, has alcohol and makes a great float. What's the ******* problem?

I think it's because of three things:

- It's being marketed as a beer when it has little similarity to beer and some argue it isn't even a beer to begin with
- If it really isn't a beer, pouring decent vodka into a cup of root beer is cheaper and pretty much the same thing
- Anything with that much hype gets backlash here (except BCBS) - it's the law

 

[steimie]

I think it tastes bad. That's it.

Pretty much this. Can't stand it.

No "backlash" here. I'd never tried it up until a couple of weeks ago, well after all the hype. Pretty sure I would've thought it sucked 2-3 months ago, too.

 

[steimie]

I think it's because of three things:

- It's being marketed as a beer when it has little similarity to beer and some argue it isn't even a beer to begin with
- If it really isn't a beer, pouring decent vodka into a cup of root beer is cheaper and pretty much the same thing
- Anything with that much hype gets backlash here (except BCBS) - it's the law

The problem is a lot of people just don't like it.

 

[Gene1]

Love all the "backlash" on this stuff now. It tastes like root beer, has alcohol and makes a great float. What's the ******* problem?

The problem is that nobody ever marketed Mike's Hard Lemonade, Four Loko, or even Bud Lite Lime-A-Rita as "beer." If they would just call it what it is, I'd really have no issue at all.

 

[steimie]

The problem is that nobody ever marketed Mike's Hard Lemonade, Four Loko, or even Bud Lite Lime-A-Rita as "beer." If they would just call it what it is, I'd really have no issue at all.

But it would still suck.

 

[RedCoffee]

The problem is a lot of people just don't like it.

As one of those people, I agree! (Except for the high alcohol version I had - that was dangerous alcopop that I wouldn't be able to replicate) But there are a lot of people who don't like *insert mediocre beer here* and they aren't nearly as controversial.

 

[lb304854]

The problem is that nobody ever marketed Mike's Hard Lemonade, Four Loko, or even Bud Lite Lime-A-Rita as "beer." If they would just call it what it is, I'd really have no issue at all.

I honestly don't think people are passing on 'craft' for Not Your Father's. I don't think "exposing" these guys changes their demographic at all.

Then again, I drank 6 of these at an Independence Day party. I've enjoyed the non-good-beer drinking people in my group of friends moving to this instead of their crappy pseudo-ciders and Red's Apple for a 100% selfish reason: I can actually drink the stuff.









And once again, the 19.5% version is ******* great.

 

[Gene1]

Full disclosure: Have not tried high-ABV NYFRB. ISO, for science...

 

[FTowne1]

Full disclosure: Have not tried high-ABV NYFRB. ISO, for science...

I'm also ISO after OP is taken care of.

 

[tosh1]

Not in SO any version of it, the whole idea of Root Beer disgusts me, an alcoholic version straight up repulses me.

 

[kscaldef]

Wait, "the whole idea of Root Beer" disgusts you? What does that even mean?

 

[user 306809]

Wait a minute... my father doesn't like root beer so ALL root beer is not his.

 

[tosh1]

Wait, "the whole idea of Root Beer" disgusts you? What does that even mean?

 

[user 306809]

One of the primary flavors in most modern root beers is wintergreen so that's why the connection.

 

[Quatz]

Not in SO any version of it, the whole idea of Root Beer disgusts me, an alcoholic version straight up repulses me.

Agreed. Root beer is disgusting.

 

[kscaldef]

Seems a little overwrought to say that the "whole idea disgusts you" of a thing flavored with something you simply don't care for, unless you had some sort of bizarre childhood trauma involving Germolene. I mean, I don't really care for, to give an example, Campari, but I wouldn't say that the "idea" of it disgusts me.

 

[tosh1]

 

[thejukes]

More like "Not Small Town Brewery - Your Father's Root Beer.

M.I. Ryte?

 

[jivex5k1]

I remember being a kid, I'd always ask for "Mug" root beer because of those commercials. They would go on and on about the foam being so thick, I was sold!
Then I found out IBC root beer came in glass bottles and I wanted those more, because glass.

Eventually Josta became my soda of choice, weird that I say soda now but I suppose 8 years in Florida will do that to you. I used to call it "Pop" being from Ohio.

I guess what I'm trying to say is I haven't had root beer in a long time but I used to like it as a kid. Problem was I would get stomach aches, IDK if it was the sugar or caffeine or both but man they sucked. I haven't had a stomach ache like that for nearly 15 years, but I'll say this NYFRB gave me the exact same stomach ache when I tried it.

Now if somebody were to make a Not your father's Josta I'd be all over that ****.