Birch beer
Premium Philadelphia Recipe Birch Beer
Hank's Gourmet Beverages · Red birch beer (Philadelphia / Northeast style)
Southampton, Pennsylvania, USA
A Philadelphia-style red birch beer that leads with the bright, candy-cool wintergreen snap the style is named for, set against a clean, generously sweet cane-sugar base. The carbonation runs lively with a tall head, yet a faint vanilla-cream undertone keeps the body from feeling thin, landing it crisper and more assertive than a typical root beer. It is a solid, accessible benchmark for the minty end of the birch spectrum, though tasters split on it: some catch a slightly muddy or faintly bitter aftertaste, and the red coloring places it on the mass-market rather than artisanal side of the shelf.
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The maker
This is Hank's Gourmet Beverages' birch beer, made by the family-owned Pennsylvania soda company in Southampton, near Philadelphia. Hank's traces its origins to a 1958 Philadelphia beer distributorship and is known for cane-sugar craft sodas built on heritage recipes. The birch beer is labeled as a Philadelphia recipe and pours a Northeast-style wintergreen-and-spice profile, bottled in 12 oz glass.
Ingredients & nutrition
Filtered carbonated water, Cane sugar, Caramel color, Sodium benzoate (preservative), Natural & artificial flavors, Yucca extracts, Gum acacia, Citric acid, Red #40.
12 fl oz · 150 cal · 39 g sugar(per serving, as labeled)