Hand Crafted Old Fashioned Special Reserve Root Beer

This is root beer number 166, drank on 10 June, 2023.

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Made in: Inyokern, CA

Bottled by: Indian Wells Brewing Co.

Cap style: pry off bottle cap / dipped

Volume: 22 fl. oz

Notable text on the bottle: Aged in barrels made from Quercus Pyenacia Chesnut, from the northwest Iberian Peninsula, to give it the spacial vanilla trace. Our recipe includes sarsaparilla, and birch root, wintergreen, ginger, wild cherry bark, licorices and pure cane sugar. Using only pure fresh pring water from our historic Indian Wells Srongs. We hope you ejoy this old fashioned, hand crafted soda. Indian Wells Spring (California Historic Marker #475) “after five days of travel from the Argus Range, the Manly-Jayhawker parties of 1849 found their first water at this Indian waterhole on the Joseph R. Walker Trail of 1843. During the 1860’s this was the site of a stage and freight station for traffic between Los Angeles and the Soco and Cerro Gordo mines”

Sweetened with: cane sugar

Natural or artificial flavor? natural

Ingredients: Indian Wells artesian spring water, cane sugar, natural flavor, real vanilla, citric acid

Calories: 360

Review: I am at a bit of loss for words for this root beer, not because it was bad, but because it was borderline perfect. I tasted like what you would think the quintessential root beer should taste like. Recommended is an understatement.

liquid color: extremely dark brown

Head? very strong and very long lasting