Sapp Organic Birch Tree Water

I saw this and the other flavors this company offers at my local supermarket and it caused quite the questioning of my site review guidelines for me. just what makes something a ‘birch beer’ or ‘root beer’? saying it on the package? what it is made from? if the latter, what exactly makes it so? …

Vilniaus Alus Retro Baikal

Yes, i know this has nothing to do with christmas or any other holiday, but i felt it was better to continue a tradition of reviewing a semi-strange, fringe root beer type foreign beverage for my christmas time review. even calling this a ‘root beer’ is a stretch i know. yet, it has many of …

Hooker Mountain Farm Spruce and Lime Maple Soda

I like Spruce Beer, at least the ones i have had, which admittedly is not very many. I like lime soda a lot, it is in my top 3 flavors beyond the root realm. I love maple stuff. so this should be amazing. it smells amazing. there is a heavy lime smell, a natural seeming …

Ikea Dryck Julmust

so it is the holiday season and this is Ikea’s holiday drink, only available around December of each year. as it is made from roots and the like, i figure it fits in with the “root beer” mold although i won’t be making a habit of reviewing Julmusts in general. i probably should make this …

Rainbow Extracts Spruce Beer

hey, a spruce beer! i find this a curious thing. i mean, spruce beer is such a very tiny niche product, even more so than birch beer or any other soda i know of. to make an extract for it seems random and probably a losing proposition. is there that much demand for people to …