Root beer
Sprecher Toasted Marshmallow Root Beer
Sprecher Brewing · Creamy vanilla
Glendale, Wisconsin, USA
A dessert-leaning riff on Sprecher's honey-sweetened, fire-brewed flagship, this pours sweet and unmistakably creamy, with vanilla and a soft caramel curl from the kettle-toasted sugars sitting right out front. The promised marshmallow reads as a gently roasted, almost smoky edge on the finish rather than a candy gimmick, and a quiet thread of warm baking spice keeps the classic root-and-sassafras spine from disappearing under all that sweetness. It lands at the indulgent, full-bodied end of the root beer spectrum, closer to a root beer float in a bottle than to a dry, bark-forward sipper. Best treated as a special-occasion pour for sweet-tooth drinkers or, fittingly, poured over vanilla ice cream.
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Sprecher Brewing Company, founded by Randal Sprecher in 1985 and headquartered in Glendale, Wisconsin, fire-brews its craft sodas over an open flame and sweetens its root beers with raw Wisconsin honey. The Toasted Marshmallow release is a limited specialty variant that builds on Sprecher's creamy fire-brewed root beer with a sweet, caramelized toasted-marshmallow character. It is sold in the brand's signature 16 fl oz glass bottles.