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Mystic Seaport
All Natural Sarsaparilla
"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 Birch Beer and Root Beer as well. They all have distinct tastes.
Review
Very rooty and medicinal nose. Very smooth, soft lead. Understated vanilla taste. Taste builds, but then flatten abruptly and oddly into almost nothingness. Faint wintergreen tones, more prominent in the aftertaste. Complex taste that shifts through the bottle, but there is something not quite right about the taste.
Luke's Numbers (7/22/04)
|
Flavor |
Mouthfeel |
|
Sweetness 7 |
Carbonation 8 |
|
Rootiness 8.5 |
Smoothness 9 |
|
Aftertaste 7 |
Over-all mouthfeel 8.5 |
|
Over-all Flavor 7.5 |
Over-all Root Beer Experience 8 |
|
Over-all average 7.94 |
Rank: 31 of 112 |
Ingredients: carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup, pure vanilla extract, natural flavors & oils (including anise, cassia, wintergreen), caramel color. 12 oz. bottle, 180 calories, 10 mg sodium, 44 g carbohydrates, 43 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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