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Americana

Microcrafted Root Beer

"Cream Style -- Classic Root Beer Flavor"

Orca Beverage, Inc., Redmond, Washington

425/881-9344

From the bottle

        The era of soda poppery began in the early 1900s.  Early soft drinks, or tonics as they were called, were available in a wide variety of flavors.  Sassafras root bark created the classic American flavor we have come to know as Root Beer.  Americana Cream Style is produced in true micro fashion, only 600 gallons at a time.  Our extracts are carefully blended with pure cane sugar to produce a rich creamy flavor made in the tradition of those old times sodas.

Review

        Fruity, sweet nose.  Very complex, rooty taste, a nice full-bodied root beer.  The taste moves through a honey-like phase (the vanilla, perhaps, as there isn't honey in this beer), to a spicy phase with licorice flourishes, to a wintergreen finish that is pleasant.  It left my tongue a little dry at the end of this journey, but it was worth the trip nevertheless.  I could go on drinking this root beer all day.  Not overly carbonated, enough for a fizz, and good smoothness.  Quite a tasty brew!

Luke's Numbers   (5/18/03)

Ingredients:  carbonated water, cane sugar, caramel color, extracts of vanilla, licorice, sassafras root bark, citric acid, natural flavors, acacia extract, sodium benzoate (preserves freshness).  12 oz. bottle, 160 calories, 75 mg sodium, 43g total carbohydrates, 38g from sugars.

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