My 500th root beer! I can’t believe that the journey I started in 1998 would lead me to so many amazing brews and now here I am with 500 done. I tried to make this a special review, because, I didn’t want just any old random bottle of root beer in my fridge (which I’ve been sitting on for 2 months now). While this isn’t some storied, legendary root beer I’ve forever been questing for, I did review it on election night on November 5th, which is pretty epic one way or another. I was traveling and in Golden Colorado and was looking for something local and found the Old 121 Brewhouse which makes their own root beer and one other flavor of soda. That one was coconut cream soda. It’s also a woman owned brewery so, appropriate because there was a woman on the ballot? I’m not getting any more political than that. I don’t endorse candidates unless they have public pro root beer policies like, um … Hank’s is the best root beer or there needs to be a White House Root Beer Sommelier or root beer subsidies or something like that, which doesn’t happen, so yeah. Anyways, it was an epic night for an epic 500th review.
The Body is sweet with sassafras and hints of wintergreen and vanilla. It’s got a sort of darker take on the classic flavor profile. The Bite is smooth but a little prickly. There isn’t a lot of spice. The Head is nice medium height and solidly foamy, which is rather rare for breweries lately. The Aftertaste is slightly bitter from wintergreen that finishes with tinges of vanilla.
This is decent. It’s a tasty one that doesn’t really stand out much but isn’t bad at all. It’s a little better than average the sort of root beer everyone will enjoy. It’d go well with food but they don’t really do meals there, just some snacks. I also tried their coconut cream soda because, why not, and that was also tasty. So, ultimately fun, but nothing crazy mind blowing, like maybe also the election, no matter what happens there’s always another one in another four years, just like there’s always another root beer for me to review.
