"Rich
Herbal"Luke's Root Beer Reviews
Journey Desert Sage
Root Beer
"Rich
Herbal"
"Historic
Brew"
Journey Food and Beverage Company, Route 5 Near Town Farm Road, Putney,
Vermont 05346
From the bottle:
A diverse collection of root bark tea and root brew recipes is the source for Journey's Historic Brews. Native Americans shared intense aromatic root tea with conquistadores in the 1500's. Since then, the Anglos, Germans, Scandinavians and Americans have blended and brewed an estimated 60 root beer types over the last five centuries. Desert Sage honors the Native American tradition of including sage in their sassafras herbal root beer. Enjoy the surprise of delicious herbs and savory root beer.
Review:
Medicinal nose. Complex medicinal lead, vanilla midrange, with a slightly rusty and metallic aftertaste. The mouthfeel was off, it felt slack. Nancy and I thought this bottle may have expired. Nancy: "it smells like cough syrup."
Luke's Numbers (7/4/05)
|
Flavor |
Mouthfeel |
|
Sweetness 6 |
Carbonation 7 |
|
Rootiness 7 |
Smoothness 7 |
|
Aftertaste 6 |
Over-all mouthfeel 7 |
|
Over-all Flavor 7 |
Over-all Root Beer Experience 7 |
|
Over-all average 6.75 |
Rank: 95 of 150 |
Ingredients: Pure sparkling water, natural sweetener blend, fructose, pure natural cane sugar, extract of desert sage, citric acid, natural flavors. 12 oz. bottle, 140 calories, 15 mg sodium, 35 g carbohydrates, 29 g sugars.
Links: Journey website.
Acquired: Root beer correspondent Mariel Kusano as part of the Hastings Spring Break Root Beer Challenge.
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