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Note: they have redesigned the box and bottle.
Top: old bottle
Bottom: new bottle
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- Manufacturer:
- Juice Creations Co. Chico, CA 95928
- The Pitch:
- We have brewed a complex recipe of Sweet Birch, Licorice Root, Sarsaparilla,
Cinnamon, Clove, Anise and Wintergreen to form a traditional, great
tasting Root Beer. We then add pure Bourbon Vanilla to give our Root
Beer a subtly rich, creamy flavor unlike any other. Draft Root Beer
is created one small batch at a time with constant attention to every
detail - using only the finest natural ingredients.
- The Ingredients:
- Sparkling filtered water, evaporated cane juice, natural flavors,
caramel color, bourbon vanilla extract, phosphoric acid, licorice root
and sarsaparilla root extracts.
- The box:
- 39kb jpg
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Spike says:
- Excellent head, which I like to see in a root
beer. Very lightly colored, almost like a cream soda. Not a lot of carbonation
either, which is surprising given the strength and longevity of the
head. This root beer is quite good, although the taste that comes to
mind at first is "freezer burn". Upon further reflection,
I think what I'm tasting is the vanilla and the sugar. The sweetness
has a different character - it doesn't taste run-of-the-mill sweet.
Perhaps it's the "evaporated cane juice". By the way, that
makes no sense to me. If it's evaporated, how can they put it into the
drink? I know, when you buy "evaporated milk" you're not buying
an empty can...not that that makes any more sense to me. Perhaps they
mean condensed cane juice, where some of the liquid is evaporated off
leaving a thicker juice. In any case, this is a very mild but quite
sweet root beer, and all the natural ingredients they add don't come
through individually. This is a good thing...anise? wintergreen? clove?
Any one of those added excessively would ruin the taste. As it is, it's
about the sweetest root beer I've had...any sweeter and I'd hang a string
in it and get root beer rock candy. Distinctive and mild enough to be
someone's favorite...just not mine. Worth a try, though it loses points
for giving me a sugar rush. I hear more about this root beer than any
other. It seems quite a few people can't stand it. A woman at work bought
a 4-pack, drank 2, gave me the rest because she hated it. Once in a
while it won't taste good to me either, but most of the time I like
it. I give it a B.
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