The Pooj polishes his lariat skills.
(BevMo Pasadena, June 2011)
Nestled in the Jackson Hole Valley at the gateway to the Grand Teton Mountains, you’ll find the appropriately named Jackson Hole Soda Company. True to its name, Jackson Hole brews their beverages with water from the Rocky Mountains, of which the Grand Tetons are a sub-range. Also in fitting with the whole wild western theme, Jacksom Hole makes old-fashioned soda flavors like huckleberry, strawberry rhubarb, and of course sarsaparilla and root beer, adorning their bottle labels with frontier-era photos. While the company website doesn’t offer any information about their origins (actually, the website doesn’t really offer that much information at all…), it does boast “the Best Buckin’ Root Beer in the country.”
Well, maybe Jackson Hole Buckin’ Root Beer is the best “Buckin’ Root Beer,” but it’s not really that great of a “just normal root beer.” Not for lack of effort though: there’s a strong root-y smell that I think leans way to the wintergreen birch side, with a slightly spicy smell that could be cloves. The flavor leans convincingly to the bark-y side as well, which the sugar rounds out nicely. It doesn’t seem that licorice-y, but I could be labeling my herbs wrong – either way, it’s got a lot of one thing and not a lot of the rest to balance it out, leaving a somewhat bitter aftertaste.
I wanted to like Jackson Hole Buckin’ Root Beer, but I’m kind of ambivalent about it. That would be a textbook 3.
Nestled in the Jackson Hole Valley at the gateway to the Grand Teton Mountains, you’ll find the appropriately named Jackson Hole Soda Company. True to its name, Jackson Hole brews their beverages with water from the Rocky Mountains, of which the Grand Tetons are a sub-range. Also in fitting with the whole wild western theme, Jacksom Hole makes old-fashioned soda flavors like huckleberry, strawberry rhubarb, and of course sarsaparilla and root beer, adorning their bottle labels with frontier-era photos. While the company website doesn’t offer any information about their origins (actually, the website doesn’t really offer that much information at all…), it does boast “the Best Buckin’ Root Beer in the country.”
Well, maybe Jackson Hole Buckin’ Root Beer is the best “Buckin’ Root Beer,” but it’s not really that great of a “just normal root beer.” Not for lack of effort though: there’s a strong root-y smell that I think leans way to the wintergreen birch side, with a slightly spicy smell that could be cloves. The flavor leans convincingly to the bark-y side as well, which the sugar rounds out nicely. It doesn’t seem that licorice-y, but I could be labeling my herbs wrong – either way, it’s got a lot of one thing and not a lot of the rest to balance it out, leaving a somewhat bitter aftertaste.
I wanted to like Jackson Hole Buckin’ Root Beer, but I’m kind of ambivalent about it. That would be a textbook 3.
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Bwahaha! The Pooj is roping the rootbeer.
Seriously, the things you and Pujimba get up to in the night while I'm asleep... I need to install a babysitter spy camera or something...
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