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Old Style Root Beer
Hand brewed and bottled by Pugsley Brewing LLC, Portland, Maine
Review
A little vanilla in the faint nose. An odd taste sensation, moving from sweet bubbly through to flat, slightly metallic aftertaste. Medium bubbles are aggressive. This is a complex but not always consistent brew -- some mouthfuls taste different than others! Wintergreen in the aftertaste, too.
Luke's Numbers (4/13/03)
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Flavor |
Mouthfeel |
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Sweetness 8 |
Carbonation 6 |
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Rootiness 7 |
Smoothness 7 |
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Aftertaste 5 |
Over-all mouthfeel 7 |
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Over-all Flavor 7 |
Over-all Root Beer Experience 7 |
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Over-all average 6.75 |
Rank: 38 of 56 |
Ingredients: water, cane sugar, caramel coloring, natural and artificial flavors including wintergreen oil, anise, and vanilla, spices, herbs, citric acid, and sodium benzoate as a preservative. 12 oz. bottle. No nutritional information on the bottle.
Links
Pugsley Brewing Company homepage, with no mention of root beer.
Acquired: From Rootbeerstore.com, as part of the "Piscataqua" package, $19.99 for a 12-pack, two each of six different root beers. $10.00 shipping, + $5.00 shipping surcharge for the west coast, comes to $34.99, or $2.92 per bottle.
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