Root beer
Lost Trail Root Beer
Lost Trail Soda Co. (Louisburg Cider Mill) · Draft-style microbrewed root beer
Louisburg, Kansas, USA
A draft-style root beer microbrewed in small batches at the Louisburg Cider Mill in Kansas, built on a family recipe the makers trace to the 1800s. It pours rich and aromatic, leaning sweet and creamy with a vanilla-forward, full-bodied character that reads more old-fashioned soda fountain than sharp bite. The signature note is its soft, rounded mouthfeel; the one recurring quibble is gentle carbonation that can feel a touch flat against the heavy sweetness. A nostalgic crowd-pleaser rather than a bark-driven, bracing brew.
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The maker
Lost Trail Soda Co. is the beverage line of the Louisburg Cider Mill, a family-run mill in Louisburg, Kansas best known for its apple cider. The root beer is said to be based on a family formula handed down from a founder's great-great-grandfather, and it is microbrewed in small batches at the mill's own bottling plant for a draft-style character. Lost Trail is a regional Kansas original distributed in 12 oz glass bottles.
Ingredients & nutrition
Filtered carbonated water, Sugar, Natural and artificial flavors, Caramel color, Benzoate of soda (preservative), Citric acid.