Dad's Old Fashioned Root Beer

Dad's Root Beer is much too traditional to be a real contender for the top root beer honors. Its mixture of smooth creaminess with carbonated sharpness doesn't quite attain balance, although when a mainstream root beer is all that's available and a Mug can not be attained, a Dad's will always suffice.

Like Elvis Costello, Dad's may once have had some fire, but has simply been passed by, and is now routinely outdone by the younger and savvier of the next generation. It is by no means a poor root beer, but undeniably, this is one doddering "Dad."

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Review by Phil Dominoe