Root beer
Sprecher Oak Creek Blonde Root Beer
Sprecher Brewing · Light blonde style
Glendale, Wisconsin, USA
A lighter, paler take on the style, Oak Creek Blonde leads with vanilla and a soft cream-soda roundness before the sassafras and root notes settle in underneath. Naturally sweetened with cane and brown sugar, it drinks smooth and easygoing rather than heavy or molasses-dark, with the sweetness tipping toward a gentle warming spice on the finish. It sits at the mellow, vanilla-forward end of the root beer spectrum — approachable and clean where many craft examples go bold and bitter. A faint barrel influence rounds the edges without taking over.
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The maker
Oak Creek Blonde Root Beer is a craft soda from Sprecher Brewing Company, the Glendale, Wisconsin maker founded in Milwaukee in 1985 and known for fire-brewing its sodas over an open flame. The Oak Creek line is positioned as a smoother, lighter root beer, with its color and mellow sweetness coming from brown sugar and cane sugar rather than the flagship's honey. Sprecher passed to local investors in 2020, who expanded distribution.
Ingredients & nutrition
12 fl oz · 160 cal · 40 g sugar(per serving, as labeled)