Hosmer Mountain Sarsaparilla Root Beer
| Type: | Sarsaparilla | Comes In: | 12oz glass bottle |
| Available: | CT | Obtained in: | mail from company |
| Head: | Large | Sweetener: | corn sweetener, brown sugar |
| Caffeine: | No | ||
| Website: | http://www.hosmersoda.com/ | ||
so this is about to get confusing, for you and for me. i reviewed the “Root Beer” above a while ago. then they sent me this “Sarsaparilla Root Beer” along with “Sarsaparilla” and “Root Beer!” and they all have different ingredients and so far, they seem to taste different. granted i cannot really recall the taste of the soda from 2 years ago or whatever, but i would not describe this one that way. at least not the part about the high carbonation as it is pretty low here. still a bit syrupy but not too much so that i would note it i don’t think. this is actually a kind of rich, quite creamy (yes creamy!) drink. i think the brown sugar is more distinct in this one too and i like it the best of their offerings so far.
Anthony’s Rating: 91
User’s Rating: 78
# of ratings:11
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As the designer of the products for Hosmer, I have to make the following points: Sarsaparilla is merely an adjective used on our root beer label. Both our root beer and our sarsaparilla contain extract of sarsaparilla root, an ingrediant that is virtually absent from probably 99% of the root beers and sarsaparillas that are made.It is not a powerful flavor and has nothing to do with Sassafrass, another old ingrediant for root beers that was banned in the early sixties and set back some fabulous drinks incuding Hires and Moxie.Safrol was the culprit molecule,avery important part of the above mentioned soft drinks.Root beer and sarsaparilla differ more in nomenclature than ingrediants—we make our sarsaparilla somewhat less vanillery and creamy [root beer with an attitude]but other companies could take an entirely different approach.