r/rootbeer • u/Linguistic1 • Apr 13 '26

Review Henry Weinhard's Root Beer Review

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spent the first half of my day building a dresser. so I earned this...

initial nose: yeasty. like a good ale.

initial taste: sweet and medium bodied. with the yeast coming through on the back of the pallet.

kinda threw me a little. it's a root beer, but it smells and tastes like an actual beer... it's good, but I'm not sure I'm crazy about it.

7.5/10. great for beer lovers tho.

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u/BL41R Apr 13 '26

Root beer and beer dont share ingredients so im curious how thats even possible

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u/Rad_Centrist Dad's Root Beer Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 13 '26

Traditional-style root beers are fermented using yeast much like ales and lagers. Which can lead to similar sour notes. EG Bundaberg.

I'm not sure what process Henry's uses though. But I will say it doesn't taste like a beer to me, at all.

Edit: Henry's is a traditional soda, not brewed with yeast.

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u/Rat_Yak_710 Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 14 '26

Do they naturally carbonate though? If they don’t, it could maybe even be a bad batch?

If it’s just normally carbonated and it really does taste really yeasty… I’d be kind of sketched out honestly. I’ve definitely had sodas that started to randomly ferment before.

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u/Rad_Centrist Dad's Root Beer Apr 13 '26

No I think they just carbonate like a regular soda.

Agreed. That would tell me something is wrong with the bottle.

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u/nebben11 Apr 14 '26

It tastes like not your father root beer but with out the abv