The Good Root Beers

Root Beer	Review
	Iron Horse Root Beer This is fabulous! It has a very sweet full Body and a nice Bite. The Head is wonderful, just like it is supposed to be. The After Taste is of vanilla and honey and is most pleasurable. When I first took a drink of this I got weak in the knees and knew it was what I had always been looking for. I found this online from the Bev Net.
	Hank's Root Beer This is sooo goooood! It has a wonderfully full Body, a nice spicy Bite. The Head is almost perfect. After Taste is very pleasant. This can be found on the east coast by Philadelphia or you can order it online. Try some of the googleads links that seem to be for places to buy root beer and you will probably find it.
	Henry Weinhard's Root Beer One of my favorites. Nice full, sweet Body with the perfect Head. It is one of the nicest heads of any root beer. So much so that it is my standard head to compare against other root beers. Wonderful After Taste. Not a lot of Bite, but enough. It is very smooth. I found this on the West Coast.
	Bulldog Root Beer When I took the first drink I exclaimed "Oh wow!" The Body is wonderful. Lots of honey, vanilla, and the other essential flavors. Sweet and creamy, the kind of flavor you could just snuggle up to if that were possible. The best flavor. The Bite is not much but sufficient. The Head is frothy but not much, not flat by any means just less than is desirable. The After Taste is of vanilla and honey and very pleasing though a little sticky. I am proud to give this one my seal of approval.
	Sprecher Root Beer Wow! This stuff is great. The Body is sweet and smooth with a nice honey flavor to it. One of the best root beer bodies that I have ever tasted. The Bite is there, but not too much, more on the smooth side, like I like it. The Head is good and froth but, unfortunately the head was too little to rank higher. The After Taste is also very nice with the honey. The only thing that could be improved would to have more vanilla flavor to it. All in all, this is a great brew.
	Sparky's Root Beer Yum, yum! This is a good one. The Body is really sweet and spicy with all of the right stuff. You can really taste the honey. The Bite is spicy and solid as well, almost too much for me, but not quite. It was rather sharp. The Head is decent, frothy, but a little too much on the slim side. The After Taste a luscious combination of honey and spices that left me tipping back the empty glass trying to get some more. Luckily, the brewers foresaw this effect and put it in 22 Oz. Bottles as well. Drinking this is a pleasure from the first draught to the last drop.
	Frostie Vanilla Root Beer Delicious! This has a sweet, creamy Body with lots of luscious vanilla. The Bite is on the weak side but not too bad. The Head is adequate, though it could be frothier. The After Taste is a wonderful vanilla flavor that lasts a long time. In short, it is basically a normal Frostie root beer with the strange unnatural flavor replaced with vanilla. A wise and excellent improvement.
	Myer's Avenue Red Root Beer Oh my gosh! This stuff is different and yet great. The Body is great and creamy yet a little weak as far as the normal "root beer" flavor goes, but not bad really in any way. Then comes the amazing Bite with cinnamon but not too much so it is still smooth. The Head is excellent rivaling the other top root beer heads. The After Taste is of cinnamon and vanilla, a great way to end a great drinking experience. This is completely different than any other root beer that I have ever drank.
	Dominion Very nice Body. Head is good but it could use more. The Bite is nice but not too much and the After Taste is pleasant.
	Zuberfizz Root Beer The Body is very crisp and clean with all of the right flavors in the right proportions. Love that cane sugar. The Bite is very mild. It is a nice and smooth brew. The Head is a little weak but frothy and you can feel the bubbles to the end. The After Taste is sweet and creamy that lingers just the right amount.
	Dog n Suds Root Beer The Body is creamy and good. The right type of flavor with nothing overly special but nothing wrong at all. It is all there. The Bite is a little on the weak side but I have said it before and I will iterate it,like it SMOOTH! The Head is also nice and "sudsy?" though not as frothy as some of the others but definately adequate. The After Taste also has got the right stuff. I say that this root beer is just plain good. There is a dog on the bottle and the root beer is sudsy so I am assuming that this is where their name comes from. Or maybe one is supposed to order a hotdog and the root beer supplies the suds (it really is actually sudsy but in a good way). As of yet this remains an inigma to me. Update: Some kind folks have emailed me and explained that yes indeed it was a hotdog chain where the suds were the root beers to go with the dogs. No more inigma.
	Point Premium Root Beer The point of this root beer is a delicious, sweet Body with all the right stuff, a medium frothy Head that sticks around for awhile, a nice but not very spicy Bite, and a pleasant After Taste of vanilla and honey. It was clear that when the standards for good root beer were laid down, they didn't miss the point.
	Hot Rod Magazine Root Beer This is one of those root beers with a nice sweet smooth Body. The Head is lacking but it doesn't go flat. The After Taste is adequate. The Bite is wonderful with Brazilian Guarana. The worst part is that it is caffinated but it does add to the bite. It has a very interesting bottle. My friend got this some where but I forgot. I have seen it at Hot Topic in the West Lake Mall in Seattle.
	Harpoon Root Beer This brew is delicious. The Body is rich and creamy, full of all the essential flavors. It has got so much of them that it is a little syrupy, but I like that. You can taste the lack of preservatives.The body is accompanied by a mild Bite that just tingles the toungue a bit. The Head is weak, sadly, but frothy and doesn't just fizz away. The After Taste is creamy and rich as well but doesn't linger too long. This is one of the best root beers I have ever tasted, but the lack of an amazing head kept this one out of the highest echelon. I ordered it from New England.
	Fitz Root Beer The Body is dark and rooty, with a clean crisp flavor on account of the luscious cane sugar. The spices and fizz level make for an excellent little Bite. The Head is average at best but frothy and lingers. The creamy vanilla After Taste is very desirable. Drinking this root beer is a pleasant experience that should be repeated often. I ordered this online.
	Jones Root Beer A sweet, pleasant Body though a little on the weak side but not too weak. The flavor is what root beer should taste like. It has a strong carbonation Bite leaning a little on the harsh side but not too harsh. The Head is tall though a it dissipates faster than I would like but the liquid stays fizzy and therefore still desirable. The After Taste is good and of the original flavor and fades away gradually. All in all, there is nothing really wrong with this and a lot right. I really enjoy it. You can find Jones all over the western USA but at the same time, you never might know where you will find it.

The Good Root Beers (5-4kegs)

The Ok Root Beers (3 kegs)

The Iffy Root Beers (2 kegs)

The Bad Root Beers (1-0 kegs)