Make sure root beer is ice cold, like nearly frozen. Room temp (warm) root beer can have a cough syrup flavor to some people.
Also there are a TON of different types of root beer. Some are better than others. I’m a 1919 and Triple XXX fan. Sprecher is also good, but the others are better, just sprechers is easier to get.
Two things could hardly be more different than root beer and mouth wash. To be fair, there are a lot of different varieties of root beer - some with a heavy licorice flavor, others stronger vanilla or whatever, but they’re all sweet.
As someone else suggested, maybe you got a strong ginger beer? Those can be pretty spicy.
Mouthwash? You sure you weren’t drinking a bad sample? A&W brand root beer has a decently strong vanilla taste, although I personally prefer Barq’s which doesn’t.
I dint know if the most disgusting, but the biggest delta between expectation and reality was root beer.
Expected something vanilly or maybe gingery, got mouthwash. I genuinely spit the first sip.
Make sure root beer is ice cold, like nearly frozen. Room temp (warm) root beer can have a cough syrup flavor to some people.
Also there are a TON of different types of root beer. Some are better than others. I’m a 1919 and Triple XXX fan. Sprecher is also good, but the others are better, just sprechers is easier to get.
Two things could hardly be more different than root beer and mouth wash. To be fair, there are a lot of different varieties of root beer - some with a heavy licorice flavor, others stronger vanilla or whatever, but they’re all sweet.
As someone else suggested, maybe you got a strong ginger beer? Those can be pretty spicy.
Mouthwash? You sure you weren’t drinking a bad sample? A&W brand root beer has a decently strong vanilla taste, although I personally prefer Barq’s which doesn’t.
Ginger bier is quite spicy, hot if it has enough in it. What you expected sounds like sarsaparilla?
Sioux City sarsaparilla ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(drink)