Year of New Beer: Not Your Father's Root Beer, Small Town Brewery (IL)

Written By: Dion on 05/04/2015

The nose is unmistakably old-fashioned root beer. Sweet brown sugar, vanilla, and cola. On the tongue is the same--straight up root beer. Not a beer with root beer flavors, but legitimate root beer with zero beer flavor. Maybe a touch too sweet and heavy-handed with the vanilla, but this is really amazing. Almost 6% ABV, but the alcohol is literally undetectable, absolutely zero hint of it. Pretty sweet, but this could be dangerous.