Sarsaparilla
Six Shooter Sarsaparilla
Wild Bill's Craft Beverage Co. · cane-sugar craft sarsaparilla
Millington, New Jersey, USA
A robust, old-fashioned sarsaparilla that leans rootier and more herbal than a typical root beer. Pure cane sugar gives it a generous sweetness, but the botanical backbone — sassafras, licorice, and a vanilla-bark earthiness from acacia, yucca, and quillaia — keeps it from reading candy-flat, with a faintly bitter herbal edge up front that mellows into a richer, lightly creamy finish. Carbonation is gentle, and the drink rewards a slightly warmer pour, where the sharp opening softens. It sits squarely in the traditional, dessert-leaning end of the sarsaparilla spectrum rather than the dry, medicinal one.
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The maker
Six Shooter Sarsaparilla is a craft cane-sugar soda from Wild Bill's Craft Beverage Co., a veteran-owned company in northern New Jersey that has produced old-fashioned sodas since the early 2000s and is a fixture at fairs, festivals, and events. The sarsaparilla is pitched as a rootier, more decadent cousin of root beer, with vanilla, licorice, and sassafras notes over a creamy body. It is caffeine-free, gluten-free, and vegan.
Ingredients & nutrition
Carbonated water, Cane sugar, Caramel color, Sodium benzoate (preservative), Citric acid, Natural and artificial flavor, Quillaia and yucca extract, Acacia, Red #40.
12 fl oz · 170 cal · 43 g sugar(per serving, as labeled)