anyone else tried this? I can hardly differentiate it from soda.

I wish we could get the high alcohol versions (they have a 19% abv) here - they're supposed to be less sweet.

7/20/2015 3:40:51 PM

it has a weird after-taste, but otherwise, I really like it.

7/20/2015 3:50:40 PM

Made a root beer float with it for shiggles a few weekends ago, was good.

7/20/2015 3:56:44 PM

never heard of it... i'm guessing it's root beer that's actual beer?

7/20/2015 3:58:51 PM

it's kind of hard to call it a beer. that would be like calling Mike's Hard Lemonade a beer. It's essentially a root beer malt beverage.

7/20/2015 4:33:51 PM

I don't like root beer, so this was a no-go for me. But it did taste like regular root beer.

7/20/2015 4:34:41 PM

well yeah... i was just wondering if there was a process where they brewed bark etc like root beer and it produced alcohol in the process... as opposed to just malt beverage with root beer flavoring.

7/20/2015 4:36:37 PM

some friends had it and said it tasted just like root beer

what percentage can we get it at?

7/20/2015 4:42:01 PM

5.9% abv, and it tastes almost exactly like root beer. If you weren't paying attention you'd never know the difference. It's just slightly different at the very end of the after taste.

Also, it's apparently not real root beer. Just a malt beverage flavored to taste like it

7/20/2015 4:58:17 PM

Why can't we get it at 10%?

7/20/2015 5:02:12 PM

we can get the 10% but they only produce it in limited quantity bombers. I'm not sure if Long carries that or not yet - I asked my friend there and he didn't know.

the 19% stuff violates NC's archaic alcohol laws on malt beverages. I don't understand why we can't just get it in liquor stores or something. I could chug some Hypnotiq or a myriad of other bullshit in the liquor store that's higher alcohol and get the same effect.

7/20/2015 5:08:12 PM

Ah so we are allowed to get the 10% stuff...probably just hard to get

[Edited on July 20, 2015 at 5:19 PM. Reason : ]

7/20/2015 5:18:26 PM

Oh yeah. TKE introduced this to me a few weeks back. Been loving it ever since.

7/20/2015 5:54:59 PM

it tastes good. but it's really sweet...hard to drink more than one per sitting.

7/20/2015 7:24:02 PM

I had this when I went to Baltimore last weekend. It was good and could recommend if you like root beer.

7/20/2015 7:34:55 PM

I love this stuff. I agree it's sweet and hard to drink more than one, but I hardly ever drink soda so I'm not used to it.

7/20/2015 7:44:40 PM

Only drink one of these in the right circumstance.

I bought a 6 pack of this and went to a friends house to chill and I literally could not drink more than 2 of these, 2 was too many.

It is REALLY good, I mean REALLY good and they have higher alcohol content versions in other states, but this shit is like straight syrup.

7/20/2015 7:50:04 PM

yeah i was at the beach this weekend and bought a six pack - a weekend of pretty heavy drinking and i didn't get through the six pack...had about 1 left.

7/20/2015 8:01:24 PM

Does have weird aftertaste, but it is good.

7/20/2015 8:23:36 PM

So good

7/20/2015 8:43:51 PM

Where can you get it around Raleigh? I had it in Chicago but haven't seen it here?

7/20/2015 9:10:10 PM

I've seen it at Lowes foods around Raleigh, it is delicious

7/20/2015 9:24:50 PM

Total Wine and Peace Street carry it.

7/20/2015 10:40:37 PM

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"it has a weird after-taste, but otherwise, I really like it."

agreed. I can down some regular root beer, but this stuff I can't stomach more than 12oz.

7/20/2015 11:50:44 PM

^i've never had more than 2 in a sitting.

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"Where can you get it around Raleigh? I had it in Chicago but haven't seen it here?"

It's pretty commonplace. I've seen it at Harris Teeter (Tryon Village) and Food Lion (Lake Wheeler).

7/21/2015 8:20:43 AM

it's branded as "Small Town Brewery", but it's actually brewed by Pabst now.

It's still too sweet for me to want to drink it ever again, but their marketing strategy is enough for me to me not want it regardless.

Dont get me wrong, nothing against Pabst. PBR is a staple in my beer fridge. But I dont appreciate being misled.

[Edited on July 21, 2015 at 9:01 AM. Reason : .]

7/21/2015 9:00:18 AM

Picked some up at target yesterday decided to give it a try. Will post results once I have had one.

7/22/2015 8:28:32 AM

This is alcoholic soda?

7/22/2015 9:55:03 AM

^well i think it's more like root beer flavored malt beverage

7/22/2015 10:02:04 AM

So it's like root beer flavored 4 Loko?

7/23/2015 12:38:50 AM

Had one last night and it did indeed taste pretty much just like root beer. Didn't even notice any strange after taste like some had mentioned.

7/23/2015 8:13:20 AM

^^not really - it's 5.9% ABV...so not nearly as strong as 4 loko.

7/23/2015 8:17:49 AM

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"SOMETHING smells about Not Your Father's Root Beer, and I'm not talking about the heavy dose of vanilla extract that flavors the suddenly popular brew. Described as "ale with the taste of spices," it tastes exactly like soda and contains 5.9 percent alcohol. Two other versions sold in large bottles contain 10.7 percent and an astonishing 19.5 percent alcohol. The brew has social media and beer aficionado websites buzzing with excitement and high ratings, and buyers in Pennsylvania have been scooping up $50 cases since they arrived earlier this year. Its manufacturer went from an unknown startup to national distribution in under five years, with one sales survey calling it the fastest-selling new craft-beer product of 2015. What is this stuff, and who's behind its incredible success? Tim Kovac, founder and brewmaster of Small Town Brewery, in tiny Wauconda, Ill. (population 13,823), where Not Your Fathers Root Beer was born, says he's astonished at his success. "It has been very much an amazing ride," Kovac told me. "Going from a few dozen Chicago bars to one of the most sought-after beers in America - it's a phenomenal beer, it really it is." At first, Small Town Brewery sounds like the prototypical independent craft brewery with a quaint back story: The owner is a graphic artist who stumbles upon his best-selling recipe during a carefree day of stovetop home-brewing with his son. It takes him two years to perfect it, finally producing an authentic, old-fashioned hard root beer. One day, he serves it to a woman and watches a tear roll down her cheek as she declares, "You just brought back memories of me being a little girl." There are other gems, including the discovery of a 17th-century "leather-bound scroll" filled with brewing recipes from a seafaring ancestor who, legend has it, won a brewery in a card game. Kovac shared the homespun tale with me last week during a phone call arranged and monitored by his public-relations agency, Sard Verbinnen & Co., a high-priced New York City firm known mainly for representing Wall Street scoundrels, including the Madoff family and Lehman Brothers' Dick Fuld. When I asked for details on how the root beer is brewed, the PR rep interrupted and said, "Parts of the recipe are proprietary." Kovac said it's "brewed and fermented just like any other beer." Perhaps, but this is what else we know: The brewhouse at Small Town Brewery, tucked into a small industrial center that also houses a body-jewelry outlet and a smoke shop, is capable of making fewer than 15 kegs a day. That's the equivalent of about 2,500 bottles - or would be if the brewery owned any bottling equipment. Most of the root beer is brewed and packaged 238 miles away, at the former G. Heileman Brewing plant now owned by City Brewing in La Crosse, Wis. Kovac said that City Brewing uses his original recipe. The La Crosse plant, however, is known primarily for the production of Mike's Hard Lemonade, Smirnoff Ice and other so-called malternatives. These drinks, which are not generally regarded as real beer, are fermented from grains and sugar, then stripped down to their essential taste-free alcohol and reflavored artificially. It's a fairly advanced technique, one that no small, largely inexperienced craft brewer would likely tackle on his own. Kovac and the names of two other area men are listed on Small Town's state liquor license. Nonetheless, there is ample evidence that the brewery is either controlled by or in a partnership with a much larger company called Phusion Projects LLC. For example: * The label for Not Your Father's Root Beer was registered by Phusion. * Small Town's Illinois state business registration lists Phusion's Chicago offices as its main address. * Small Town and Phusion shared the same director of strategic marketing. * And, tellingly, Small Town Brewery's own website includes a contact address that is the same as Phusion's. Or, at least it did, until the address was erased from the website sometime this spring. Why the subterfuge? Possibly because Phusion is responsible for the most notorious alcoholic beverage to hit the shelves in the past decade: Four Loko. Made with caffeine and marketed as an alcoholic "energy beer," Four Loko was linked to dozens of hospitalizations and at least one death from excessive consumption before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration forced it off shelves in 2010. The drink has since returned but without added caffeine. Phusion did not reply to a request for comment about its relationship, and Small Town declined to answer further questions about its ownership. However, a source familiar with the companies told me that the brand (but not the brewery) was recently acquired by Eugene Kashper, the new CEO and chairman of Pabst Brewing. Pabst will distribute the root beer in all 50 states Meanwhile, Small Town Brewery is developing other brands, including Not Your Father's Ginger Beer and a barrel-aged root beer with 24 percent alcohol."

http://articles.philly.com/2015-07-03/news/64042546_1_root-beer-city-brewing-other-beer

7/23/2015 8:30:33 AM

tastes like shitty root beer, turn my poop black. 6/10

7/23/2015 8:37:36 AM