"Original Premium Recipe"Luke's Root Beer Reviews
Kutztown
Birch Beer
"Original Premium Recipe"
Kutztown Soda Works, Kutztown, Pennsylvania 19530
From the bottle: Say now, no one can resist the spell of Kutztown Birch Beer, Pennsylvania's finest. Share a frosty mug with your special someone and just watch them fall in love. Drink to your health.
Review:
A nice birch beer. Strong wintergreen nose, as expected. Small bubble carbonation. Strong birchy wintergreen lead, sugary midrange, sweeter than many birch beers. Odd aftertaste -- wintergreen but also a flat taste. Strong mouth-drying going on. "It goes from wintergreen right into burnt sugar," notes Nancy. Excellent burps.
Luke's Numbers (5/6/2006)
|
Flavor |
Mouthfeel |
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Sweetness 8.5 |
Carbonation 7 |
|
Rootiness 7 |
Smoothness 7 |
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Aftertaste 6 |
Over-all mouthfeel 7 |
|
Over-all Flavor 7.5 |
Over-all Root Beer Experience 7.5 |
|
Over-all average 7.19 |
Rank: 82 of 168 |
Ingredients: triple-filtered carbonated water, pure cane sugar, caramel color, natural and artificial flavor, citric acid, sodium benzoate (a preservative), yucca extracts and acacia. Contains no caffeine. 12 oz. bottle, 160 calories, 20 mg sodium, 39 g carbohydrates, 39 g from sugars.
Links: Kutztown Bottling Works homepage.
Acquired: Through the Hastings Spring Break Root Beer Challenge, from correspondent Dan Balsam.
Available: In Kutztown, and on the internet at the Soda Pop Shop, for one.
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