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Museum of America and the Sea"Luke's Root Beer Reviews
Mystic Seaport
All Natural Birch Beer
"The
Museum of America and the Sea"
"All Natural Ingredients"
Original American Beverage Company, Mystic, Connecticut 06355 • 1-800-625-3767
Check out Mystic Seaport's Sarsaparilla and Root Beer as well. They all have distinct tastes. This Birch Beer, for example, has clove and sweet birch as ingredients, while the Sarsaparilla has cassia.
Review
Strong medicinal nose. Very strong medicinal first hit, fading into wintergreen. Wintergreen strongly throughout. Fairly harsh wintergreen lead in further sips, it is the almost bitter dominant flavor. Less smooth than the Seaport's Sarsaparilla. Carbonation is not a factor, the wintergreen hit cuts into the smoothness.
Luke's Numbers (7/22/04)
|
Flavor |
Mouthfeel |
|
Sweetness 6 |
Carbonation 7 |
|
Rootiness 8.5 |
Smoothness 7 |
|
Aftertaste 7 |
Over-all mouthfeel 7 |
|
Over-all Flavor 7 |
Over-all Root Beer Experience 7 |
|
Over-all average 7.06 |
Rank: 63 of 112 |
Ingredients: carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup, pure vanilla extract, natural flavors & oils (including anise, clove, sweet birch, wintergreen). 12 oz. bottle, 180 calories, 10 mg sodium, 43 g carbohydrates, 42 g from sugars.
Acquired: At the Mystic Seaport Store (75 Greenmanville Avenue, Mystic). $1.50/bottle.
Available: At the Seaport Store and in the Seaport restaurant. I have also seen Mystic Seaport Root Beer for sale in a supermarket in Santa Fe, New Mexico, of all places.
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