Birch beer
Sioux City Birch Beer
Sioux City (Orca Beverage) · Wintergreen birch beer (cane sugar)
Whitestone (Queens), New York, USA (bottled in Mukilteo, Washington)
A cane-sugar birch beer that leans into the wintergreen end of the family, all minty-cool birch bark on the nose and through a lingering finish. The carbonation sits unusually soft, which lets a rounded, faintly creamy body carry the sweetness rather than scrub it away, landing somewhere between a root beer and a cream soda. It is a clean, nostalgic pour in embossed Western-graphic glass, more about smooth refreshment than herbal bite.
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The maker
Sioux City is a "saloon style" soft-drink line owned and marketed by White Rock Beverages (White Rock Products Corp.), headquartered in Whitestone, Queens, New York. The brand launched in 1971 and is sweetened with pure cane sugar. Production is contract-bottled by Orca Beverage Soda Works in Mukilteo, Washington.
Ingredients & nutrition
Purified Carbonated Water, Pure Cane Sugar, Artificial Flavors, Caramel Color, Citric Acid, Sodium Benzoate (as a Preservative), Artificial Color (Red #40).