This is from a trade with a fine fellow by the name of Red Hunt who likes to travel and write about said travels. He also likes root beer, though he doesn’t write about that. Most importantly though (for me anyways) is that he’s Canadian which means in addition to saying ‘eh’ several times in each sentence, he has access to brews that are much harder for me to get. This one for instance, comes all the way from Halifax, Nova Scotia, where, coincidentally, my brother is serving his mission. It comes in a 341 ml bottle which is a really strange volume. It doesn’t convert to an even number of anything else. The closest is in imperial ounces, which it is 12.0015. They just wanted to be different I guess. The label says that it’s produced by the John Allen Brewing Company but the cap says it’s from the Propeller Brewing Company. It looks as if those are the same, but seriously guys. Get your act together. Strange volumes and can’t make up your mind on the name of your own company. Who knows what other strangeness you’ve got.
The Body is sweet with the standard creamy root beer flavor. It is a little on the light side but it has some nice cane sugar and vanilla as well as some spice. The Bite is decent from the aforementioned spice. I think I want to say there’s some cinnamon. The Head is medium height with average staying power. It forms large bubbles as it fizzes down which is kind of unique. The Aftertaste is a light vanilla and cane sugar that doesn’t quite last long enough.
This is a good brew that just needs to be a little stronger. At least they’ve largely got making their root beer figured out. With the other oddities I half expected it to be some weird fusion crossover type root beer. This is probably better. See how it rates against other root beers.
This is the second root beer that I had from the Journey folks. The 
A rare find indeed is this brew. All the way from the London borough of Hackney. That’s right another UK brew. They are as rare as they are awful, historically speaking, though this could be just the brew to break that losingest of streaks. I mean, it seems like they’re going for a pun, Square Root and root beer, and I just love puns. Plus a math pun with the square root sign on the label. That’s pretty … radical … The rest of label is way cool too, what with those nifty plants and bordered text. You can’t see it in the picture, but the label is textured so it feels really nice on the fingers. But then again, there are things that don’t bode so well for them. Square Root London Soda was started in 2012 with ginger beer as their first flavor, which kind of dashes the whole pun, though not entirely as ginger is a root. The math is still cool. But then there’s this on the label: “Root Beer is not for everyone. If you like it you probably don’t understand why you like it but you just do. Sit back, think rooty thoughts & enjoy this medicinal mix of unusual flavors.” Yeah, um that’s not generally the best way to introduce something that you think is amazing. The ingredients listed seem legit though, so who knows.
