Root Beer Float Cinnamon Toast Crunch

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Jul 062026
 

A little while ago I was shopping at Walmart and saw this in a center display. I had heard about these before on Swagbucks survey I’d taken about a month earlier about branding. This is part of a America 250th birthday flavor series where they have some commemorative “American” flavors to celebrate the big 250. I of course, had to try it. Not only because it’s root beer float flavor, but because I generally love Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

Without milk, you can taste a sort of root beer extract flavor that doesn’t really mix well with everything else, but when you add the milk (making the whole float part), it really does have a subtle root beer float flavor mixed in there. I quite enjoy a cinnamony root beer float. So this was actually a treat and I had a bowl every day until it was gone. My kids like it too. It’s definitely worth grabbing a box this July if you haven’t already.

Faxon Farms Maple Root Beer

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Jul 012026
 

Minnesota has this thing called The Renaissance Festival, or Ren Fest for short. My family likes to attend because you can watch jousting while eating giant smoked turkey legs and do other fun activities and buy things at shops and dress up like a knight and whatnot. Last year, my sister found this being sold in one of the shops and bought me a bottle to review. I always appreciate people finding me new root beers. Faxon farms is a local producer of pure maple syrup that got started out of a hobby in 2010. They’ve expanded operations over the years to not just make pure maple syrup but also pure maple syrup products, including this root beer. I do love small farm maple syrup, being a hobbyist myself. I also love a good maple root beer.

The Body has a rich maple flavor with honey but quite mild on the rest of the root beer flavors. It starts strong but doesn’t maintain. The Bite is smooth, not really any spices. The Head is very short, gone quickly. Not quite the “2-Second Head”, but close. The Aftertaste is maple. Good maple. Quality maple, but that’s it.

This has a great maple, but not not so much a great root beer. I find that happens often, with maple or other flavored root beers. You make an amazing maple syrup, you want to make that into an amazing root beer, but you are not a root beer expert so you lean into your strength. You can’t just take a root beer and add maple, or even a good root beer and add maple, but you need to formulate what will be an amazing root beer because of its maple. That’s hard to do. As it stands, the delicious maple makes for a drinkable root beer, but not much else. See how it rates against other root beers.

Three kegs

Ancestry Draft Root Beer

 Draft and Keg Root Beers  No Responses »
Jun 032026
 

Back in February I was in Portland doing what I do best, DERMSing. This wasn’t the first time I’ve been to Portland for such reasons. In fact I was there fall of last year, when I was doing my crazy travel schedule. I had checked near my hotel, in Tualatin, and found Ancestry brewing back then, but I was with quite a few coworkers and we were in a hurry so I filed it away as something to hit for the next trip, which trip was this February. That’s a long way of saying I was expecting to hit this place up. We actually barely made it in time to order dinner and the root beer.

The Body is sweet and rich with some vanilla and wintergreen. It’s a pretty typical flavor profile about halfway between a creamy classic and a dark old fashioned that just tastes like good root beer. The Bite is mild and smooth with a little carbonation prickle slight spice. The Head is medium tall with good staying power. The Aftertaste is sweet with a bit of vanilla but not much.

There’s nothing that really stands out on this but it’s a good total package. Better than average and plenty fine with the meal of fish and chips with some pretzel bites. I got a second pint after all. So check it out. It’s a fine place.

Three and a half kegs

Fish and chips with pretzel bites in a beer cheese dip. Quite delicious

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