I have set myself the goal to review three beers or ciders every week for 100 weeks. I will be learning about beer and ciders more as I do this, and if I am successful in this venture, I will have tried about 300 unique drinks. If you're curious how I'm doing, the number in the post's title tells you which week I am in now.
 |
| Coney Island, Not your Father's, Row Hard |
Hard Root Beers seem to recently have blown up. At my local grocery store, I can find at least five varieties. Hearing good things about Not Your Father's Root Beer, I decided to check out some others as well. Coney Island Brewing co is a subsidiary of Boston Beer Co, while near as I can tell Small Town Brewery (of Not Your Father's) is independent and Root Sellers is a subset of Weston Brewing Company. I looked into that because their sudden boost in distribution struck me as odd.
Coney Island Hard Root Beer) Is this root beer? It's much sweeter than the others and has lots of vanilla. The finish even has anise (read black licorice) like flavors in it. Other than that, it's very root beer like, but too sweet for my taste buds. ☆☆☆
Not Your Father's Root Beer) This one is like Sprecher's Hard Root Beer, but the raw sarsaparilla finish is a bit more subdued. I got a bit more syrup on this one than the others as well, but I think it was my favorite. ☆☆☆☆
Row Hard Root Beer) A strongly medicinal, herbal hard root beer. The molasses also comes through a bit more pronounced. I didn't really like this one much, but my brother thought it was the best of the three. ☆☆☆
No comments:
Post a Comment