
First sip is root beer, but a bit heavy on the syrup and definitely flat. The alcohol is up front, and it might have benefited from that missing head. The enhanced carbonation would definitely have helped lighten the heavy alcohol and the syrup, but we find ourselves without it. It's not terrible, but maybe a swig will improve things.
Tip-in is very light carbonation tingle with vanilla and caramel rounding out the syrupy root beer. The middle runs up with more sweetness, a bit of alcohol, a lot of root beer, and it's all too flat. The finish is actually pretty nice. The syrup subsides a bit, and the root beer lingers without the alcohol. It definitely ends on a high note.
Bottom Line: Better than some, but not king of the hard root beer hill.
2.5/5