Birch beer
Avery's Birch Beer
Avery's Beverages · Clear birch beer (white birch / wintergreen style)
New Britain, Connecticut, USA
A clear, old-fashioned New England birch beer that leans hard into wintergreen — bright methyl-salicylate lift up front, a bark-and-spearmint middle, and a faint licorice edge on a clean cane-sugar finish. Bottled small-batch in glass in New Britain, Connecticut from a 1904 recipe, it drinks crisp rather than creamy, with none of the vanilla roundness of a dark birch. The carbonation tends to run on the gentle side, the one knock that keeps it from being flawless, but the aromatics are vivid and unmistakably real birch.
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The maker
Avery's Beverages is one of New England's oldest soda bottlers, founded by Sherman F. Avery in 1904 and still making soda in a red barn on Corbin Avenue in New Britain, Connecticut. The family-scale operation produces more than 30 cane-sugar flavors using old-fashioned methods, and is especially known for its cream soda, root beer, ginger ale, and birch beer. Its birch beer leans on oil of birch for a flavor that sits between wintergreen and root beer.
Ingredients & nutrition
Carbonated water, Pure cane sugar, Natural and artificial flavors, Citric acid, Sodium benzoate (a preservative).