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Sioux City Birch Beer

Wed, 23 May 2007

Summary: wintergreen (salicylic acid)!

I'd need to try this next to Boylans to see which I liked best, but neither of them was my favorite. Sugary wintergreen flavor (what does birch bark taste like anyway? Probably horrible, which is why beverage makers mask it so heavily with wintergreen and sugar).

Scott's score: 5 (of 10)

Boylan's Birch Beer

Mon, 11 Sep 2006

3 words: "too much wintergreen".

This beverage is hardly subtle, and I'm not sure what it's really trying to give me here, other than a strong dose of wintergreen.

Don't get me wrong; wintergreen is one of my favorite flavors, but it's overused in too many root beers and here we find it becoming virtually the only flavor in the birch beer. Could it be that "birch" root tastes horrible and must be completely masked to make it ...

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