Cream soda

Sprecher Cream Soda

Sprecher Brewing Co. · honey-vanilla cream soda

Glendale, Wisconsin, USA

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A rich, dessert-like cream soda built on Sprecher's fire-brewed honey-and-vanilla formula, where the honey lends a faint bittersweet edge that keeps the heavy sweetness from going flat. The body is thick and genuinely creamy, with toasted-marshmallow and caramel notes that deepen over ice, and carbonation kept soft so the texture reads almost velvety. It is unapologetically sweet and not especially complex, but it executes the classic vanilla-cream profile about as well as the style allows.

Taste profile
Flavor fingerprint for Sprecher Cream SodaSweetness 5 of 5, Carbonation 2 of 5, Body 4 of 5, Creaminess 5 of 5, Bitterness 1 of 5, Spice-heat 0 of 5, Aroma intensity 4 of 5, Finish 4 of 5SweetnessCarbonationBodyCreaminessBitternessSpice-heatAromaFinish

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Flavor wheel
Flavor wheel for Sprecher Cream SodaHighlighted: Vanilla & cream, Caramel & molasses.SpiceVanillaCaramelFruityOff-notes

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Scores

Our score
40/50
What drinkers think
8/9
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Critics vs. the crowd
-8
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The maker

Sprecher Brewing Company is a craft beverage maker based in Glendale, just outside Milwaukee, that built its reputation on a fire-brewing process in which the ingredients are slowly caramelized in a gas-fired kettle. Its sodas lean on real Wisconsin honey sourced from local beekeepers rather than relying on sweetener alone for character. The cream soda is one of the lineup's flagship offerings alongside its better-known root beer.

Ingredients & nutrition

carbonated water, high-fructose corn syrup, maltodextrin, raw Wisconsin honey, vanillin, natural and artificial flavors, phosphoric acid, quillaia/yucca extract, caramel color, sodium benzoate (preservative), sodium chloride.

16 fl oz · 300 cal · 60 g sugar(per serving, as labeled)