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Boylan's

Birch Beer

"Locally Loved"

Boylan Bottling Company, 280 Colfax Avenue Clifton, New Jersey  07013

1-800-289-7978

I'm not sure what the "locally loved" slogan means, that they are unloved elsewhere?

Review

        Very interesting nose, smelled slightly like the paste I used to eat in kindergarten.  Not really wintergreen, but something similar and close.  Big wintergreen lead (like most birch beers) that mellows, or perhaps flattens, into a small bubble mid-range with some rooty tones but also a little pasty taste.  Not quite sure what that is, but I don't think it is successful -- perhaps this is what real birch taste like, as pure birch oil is high in the ingredients.  I wonder if they make that paste from birch?  The aftertaste is a mellow wintergreen, not bad.    

Luke's Numbers (11/6/04)

Ingredients:  carbonated water, cane sugar, pure birch oils, natural flavors, caramel color, natural yucca extract, citric acid, sodium benzoate (preserves freshness).  11.6 oz. bottle, 155 calories, 35 mg sodium, 39 g carbohydrates, 39 g from sugars.  Caffeine free.

Acquired: Beverages and More, Colma, California.

Available:  Fairly widely.

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