Birch beer
Creamy Red Birch Beer
Boylan Bottling Co. · Red birch beer (cream style)
New York, New York, USA (originally Paterson, New Jersey)
A red-style birch beer that leans into the cool, methyl-salicylate snap of wintergreen and sweet birch, with a peppermint lift that hits the moment it crosses the lips. The "creamy" label is earned more by the soft, foamy carbonation and a whisper of vanilla than by any heavy cream-soda richness, so the drink reads bright and botanical rather than dessert-sweet despite a generous cane-sugar load. It sits at the mintier, more aromatic end of the birch family: bolder and cooler than the cola-adjacent root beers, lighter in body than a true cream soda. A reliable, polished benchmark bottle for anyone learning where birch diverges from root beer.
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The maker
Creamy Red Birch Beer is part of the birch lineup from Boylan, the craft soda company founded in 1891 in Paterson, New Jersey and now headquartered in New York City. It is a red-tinted, vanilla-forward take on the brand's signature birch flavor, sweetened with cane sugar and bottled in Boylan's traditional glass bottles. Birch beer has been central to the brand since its 19th-century pharmacy origins.
Ingredients & nutrition
Carbonated water, cane sugar, pure birch oils, natural and artificial flavors, vanillin, citric acid, sodium benzoate (preserves freshness), Red #40 for color, caramel color.
12 fl oz · 170 cal · 42 g sugar(per serving, as labeled)