welcome Glen welcome friends so we made our own root beer this is a naturally
fermented root beer and a soda mix root beer and we thought let's do it taste
off with a bunch of root beers that we this is only a little intimidating only
a little intimidating there's lots to taste here and this is just what we can
get you know within like a 15 minute walk of our house so we didn't go to any
great lengths to find the really difficult ones although this one from
Philadelphia is a bit of a wild-card so we've already tasted ours first up is
a and W now AM W is probably the quintessential root beer to me that it's
the one that as a child I always had it's very sweet normally it's very
comely and very sweet than the ones that we made um you know even as a kid we
would go to a W you drive in and they bring the tray over and put it on your
window weird that too yeah so this one's fairly sweet as well
and has that same caramel II kind of flavor again I think that's why you love
it so much as a kid right it's sweet it's sweet is caramel II know some of
these have citric acid in them and some of them don't which i think is very
interesting some of them have anise seeds some of them have things that are
fairly off-piste for a root beer I think as long as you have sassafras you can
call it a root beer let me taste slightly different still very root berry
um yes but I call it muted slightly different slightly different slightly
different
well he's like a coffee I want to say a coffee overtone but I'm not sure yeah
I'm not a you know yeah so meliae I am not I do not have a well-trained palate
four flavors but there's something that's a bigger flavor in the beginner
zone that's not the root yes the sassafras definitely not I don't
know what's in that again so far they're all very lovely but they're older all
they're all they're all very different they all have a different kind of no
one's got like a cherry yeah what is that of barks yeah it's got like a
cherry this is the deep root beer root beer so far
that one's got an interesting creamy second flavor yes that's very creamy for
lack of a better word like a cream soda I kind of undertone to it so I would put
these as that first flavor that you get is not super root Berry on either of
these but the the Boylan's have it has a that creamy aftertaste it's kind of
interesting but I wouldn't call it a root beer
it wouldn't call it a classic repair that I like that one's got a kind of
yeah okay it could just be that it's the last one of this many no okay so this
one that Jones sorry Jones not a root beer it's funny
because that one is the most rooty of the root beer of all of these that one
has that very strong root the hole ever to it yes like that is the plant it's
there it's not it doesn't have any of the additional flavors in it like the
caramel flavor or though it doesn't yeah it doesn't have those other it doesn't
or the berry flavors or the other ones it is straight up root so I would say if
you like it was barks if you like barks root beer and you've tried this homemade
root beer very different very different because this has our homemade root beer
is very sassafras forward and that's the other thing
none of these have the full sassafras root in them because they have to remove
the suffer all which changes the flavor yeah I don't think I need them hat no
none of them have that kind of unbe full of bubbles soon I'd say one that's I
have no calm I mean I can't really rate them they're all different they're not
they're not they're a little bit like this but not a whole lot like this yeah
okay and I wouldn't declare any of them to be
you know something I wouldn't drink yeah I've declared did you I declare when
declared he was not afraid he declared banished from the side is it even in
frame oh it's just at the edges bring it right back into the banished over there
and in in my own rating system I would say I would if I had our own because I
like the bigger flavor and then I would have a and W and then maybe the
Stewart's this one was a bit of a wild card it had a similar flavor to the NW
but I don't see this yeah the Hanks you know hmm suddenly maybe not the pop shop
no the pop shop just to right cuz you know pop shop of course as we've
mentioned it's a good thing but you know I'll live I do really like the creamy
back end of this one of the Boylan's a pop shop isn't root beer either is it
it's too sweet and at the for the Roo deist I would say the rudest and hours
hours and and these two are the rudest but all this has an interesting creamy
back-end the Bark's is almost just one up from the Jones so there you have it
it's artful Stan's bar our own expert opinion of a dozen of these and the
great thing about making this at home is that once you make the first batch you
can play with it and you can make it sweeter you can change the routes that
you're using you can add other things and in the in the description I will put
in some of the other ingredients that I I know are in these because some of
these brands brag about what they put in as well as the routes and others aren't
gonna tell you anything so I'll put in what other people are
putting in their in their root beers as well as yours yeah that's the great
thing about doing it at home thanks for stopping by see you again soon take care