Root beer
Fitz's Root Beer
Fitz's Soda · Cane sugar craft root beer
St. Louis (University City), Missouri, USA
A hand-batched St. Louis classic bottled since 1947, Fitz's leans into a deep, old-fashioned root beer profile built on more than a dozen botanicals, with sassafras and wintergreen pushed to the front. Cane sugar gives it a full, rounded body, while wild cherry bark, star anise, and vanilla bean fill in the mid-palate and trail into a long, slightly woody finish. It drinks bold and traditional rather than soft or creamy, a benchmark for anyone chasing the heavier end of the root beer spectrum.
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The maker
Fitz's traces its root beer to a 1947 recipe first made at a drive-in hamburger stand in the St. Louis suburb of Richmond Heights. The brand was revived in 1993 when Fitz's reopened as a restaurant and microbrewery on the Delmar Loop in University City, Missouri, where it bottles on a refurbished 1940s bottling line salvaged from a Wisconsin barn. It remains a St. Louis-based, family-style operation that makes its cane-sugar root beer on site.
Ingredients & nutrition
Filtered carbonated water, cane sugar, natural flavors, caramel color, vanillin, sodium benzoate (preservative), citric acid.