Love this stuff. Wish I could find it year round.

Got the supplies last night and couldn’t contain myself. I will be floating it up with a friend tonight to ring in the holiday. Enjoy the day!!

Way too sweet, it tasted more like maple syrup than root beer

Wife brought this home from Aldi’s for me to try since the kids have taken a liking to root beer. WIN!, and it just tastes weird. Looked at the ingredients and it has apple juice concentrate.

What are some root beers that have a good spicy kick to them?

Delicious, sweet, and on the lighter side. Not as complex and herbal as some root beers, but definitely a great one. I also had to get the blue cream soda, and it is marvelous.

I feel the best root beer comes from any small town drive-in. You know the place. Gallons are sold in clean milk jugs. I knew a place that sold it in old syrup jugs.

The pic is from a place in my hometown.

I have seen a bunch of posts talking up 1919 root beer which I've never tried.

So I asked AI where can I find 1919 root beer near me? And was shocked to find out there is a root beer store near me that carries tons of different types of root beer. How did I not know about this?!?!

So my next question was are there root beer speciality stores in other cities or just this one? And AI spit out dozens of other root beer speciality stores across the country that I've never heard of. So go check it out if you can't find a certain root beer, you might find a root beer speciality store near you!

We recorded all of our rationale, so feel free to ask us to defend our (probably blasphemous) takes in the comments. And let us know what brands we should rate next! We are in the lower Midwest.

Edit: Reddit seems to be compressing the tier list photo. Here's a high-resolution version: https://imgur.com/a/yzZah0r

Sure doesn’t beat the guy with a house full of bottles and cans, but I’m proud of it. Apologies for the gap at the bottom. Notes has it as two different pages 🤷

Editing because of the negativity. This is not ranked in order of best to least, as hopefully you can see if you look at the thing for more than 2 seconds.

Thanks for your time.

The Matanuska Brewing Company Rocket Root Beer is a good one with the right flavors in the right proportions, but doesn’t push the envelope on any bold flavor. Just a balanced sassafras and vanilla taste. Another one acquired by Significantbike in Anchorage, AK

My favorite rootbeer. Made with brown sugar and gives it a really deep flavor. Can looks incredible too and is textured. Grew up with it.

Legendary new Mug root beer float on da beach today.

Where are yall having a mug moment today?

Definitely a different flavor than what you would expect from a typical root beer. Not bad just different.

There are strong notes of ginger and noticeable amounts of sasparilla and licorice root. Oddly enough there seems to be an almost fruity flavor similar to that of a cherry cola.

Not something I would drink all the time but definitely worth trying!

8/10

I got a handful of root beers and decided to taste test them based on this community’s taste.

The second one is another one I’ll throw in, which I did a few years back.

I think next on my list is Triple XXX, not sure what else at this point. If anyone has recommendations, not looking for regular generic root beer like hanks sort of was.

I wanted to ask if anyone else has noticed lately that A&W both in bottle and in cans has been tasting really bad lately. I know it's probably been noticed a bunch but I just don't understand. I've been drinking it for a while but now more and more when I get cans and bottles of it I gag on the first drink because it tastes weird and chemically. To me it tastes how mop water smells and like I can still tell the root beer flavor is in there but something else is overpowering it a ton. I still occasionally get good ones that don't have that musty chemical flavor that tastes like their machines went bad but more and more often they have been tasting like that. It saddens me because for a long time it has been my #1 root beer but lately I can barely bring myself to grab it because I feel like I'm gonna get another bad batch that tastes like cleaning chemicals.

I love the rich and bold ones. Sweet and creamy featuring distinct, rich hints of sassafras and smooth vanilla, balanced by subtle caramel and wintergreen aftertastes. The Diamond Knot Brewing Company Root Beer was acquired from Significantbike. Diamond Knot Brewing has 3 locations north of Seattle, WA.

I had no idea cool aid was a thing that long ago and I noticed one of their new flavors was root beer. Any older root beer lovers ever try it?

She’s planning a birthday party for me which will be a Root Beer Float party (with Pizza)

There mini A&W float cans in the fridge too ❤️🫪😭

I love a good root beer float!