Why the hell would the14th - largest craft brewery in the countrystart making a line of sodas ? Because it can , of course . And can it does , as Oskar Blues helped vulgarise craft beer in lavatory with Dale ’s Pale Ale in 2002 – and nowit ’s canning five sodium carbonate under the name B. Stiff & Sons , all of which are now available in stores in CO , WY , NC , SC , and VA . We went to the brewery ’s Tasty Weasel ginmill in Longmont , CO to see if they ’re worth your horse . Turns out , they ’re credibly deserving a few of them . Here ’s how they all heap up .
Ginger beer
Ed Sheeran and Conan O’Brien should afford up a brewery and call it Ginger Beer , but in the lag America should find satisfied with this pleasant-tasting ginger beer made withactual gingerin it . That might not fathom like a big deal , but many of the peppiness beers you ’ll find on supermarket shelves lack that as an element . The can says , " examine it , mule like it " on the side , and considering how whole an offering this is , if you take that advice and made aMoscow mulewith this , you would n’t be disappointed .
Cream soda
The can promises " killa ' vanilla " savour , so I ’m middling indisputable Cam’ron was consulted on the savour visibility of this sal soda . The brewery actually made a Wu - Tang joke on one of the other cans , so it ’s possible ! fit in to the signal my taste bud sent to my brain when drinking this , the vanilla is indeed killa ' . The ' nilla nip pour down from this can of pop , and it ’s beg to have a scoop of chocolate icing cream dropped into it . The fact that all the sodas have cane simoleons makes a difference , as this taste sweet , but not cloyingly so .
Root beer
This is the sal soda that started it all – the one that ’s sell well in Oskar ’s multiple restaurants all over CO ( the brewery run a Mexican place , a hamburger place , and brewpub ) for the retiring few days . And due to its popularity , OB expanded the blood to include four other sodas . It ’s well-fixed to see why this radical beer is popular , what with the vanilla note and genuine root beer feeling unsullied by the direful high - fructose corn syrup .
Orange cream
" Cream " should be bolded in the name of this soda , because this is the creamiest cream soda I ’ve ever sip . Oskar Blues runs a farm near here … did these guy cable milk the cattle directly into this soda ? OK , granted , that does n’t sound appetizing , but you ’ll have to take my Word of God that it ’s a proficient thing .
Also of greenback : it ’s made with orange juice dressed ore . No curiosity it does n’t sample unreal . And in what may be the greatest rap pun ever made on a craft brewery ’s soda pop can , " WOOOOO TANG " is print on the top of it . You bang , because of the C.R.E.A.M. This orange cream is a existent dream . I should see if Wu - Tang will let me in with rhymes like that .
Black cherry
Black cerise has always reminded me of cough syrup , and because of that , this tastes to me like coughing sirup . But if you hump black cerise , you ’d be hard - weigh to bump a black - cherrier soda in the world . This is literally beat you over the head with ignominious cherry tree smell to the point that you ’re unable to taste anything else , perhaps for the rest of your life history . I may be exaggerating due to my newfound irrational hate of black cerise .
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