Too sweet for me. Very pronounced safrole flavor, but you can tell there is some booze in there.

Like the 10%, only a little less sweet (but also a little less richly-flavored). Still can't taste the alcohol. One wonders about the 19.5% version.

This is almost identical to the 5% It just tastes a little more syrupy.This is also a little flatter. Which might be contributory.

Yeah, I still like it. Call me a philistine if you must.

Somehow this tastes exactly like a sweet, summery root beer, despite also being a 10.7% alcohol drink. I'm not sure I can wrap my head around this? And what in the world does the 19.5% version taste like??

Yep! That's root beer!

This is good. But it's a good old-timey root beer, i.e. sweet and spicy. You don't notice the alcohol, and it doesn't taste like beer in any sense other than the root.