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Americana Root Beer

yup, they have changed their recipe and name as well. gone are all of the interesting seeming ingredients like extracts of vanilla, licorice and sassafras root bark, which could actually be included in the ‘natural flavors’ thing, but i’d imagine you’d point those out, or continue to do so and not removed them from the …

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Hippo Size Jumbo Root Beer

the second of the Hippo Size beverages i have sampled. hopefully it stacks up well against the birch beer which was reasonably solid. again, proclaiming it “Since 1927” is quite misleading in my mind as it was not made for a good quarter century or so between when it started and when it was revived …

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O-So Good Vanilla Butterscotch Root Beer

i am always a little leery of drinks that says things like “Since 1946” on them like this one does. i mean, ok, maybe it was made initially in 1946 and then abandoned for many years until 2013 when Orca brought it back, or at least brought the name back. this soda was not made …

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Big E Root Beer

it is always tricky to get draft root beers through the mail. one issue is freshness, many don’t have preservatives of any sort so they may not transport well. another issue is carbonation level. when you put it in a different container, it is very difficult to capture the head and original carbonation level. the …

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Old Red Eye Root Beer

from what i can tell in my googling of this brand, they were around from the late 40s until the 60s in the Colorado area. their soda was caffeinated although this one is not. there was never any relation to “Red Eye” soda which was out of Maryland in the 70s. i suppose this was …