white birch beer?
 

Anyone ever tried white birch beer? I've never tried it, but Mr. Kipper insists it's really outstanding.

I tried it once-at a food fair in Montreal.
Very tasty-but it does taste like a tree.

And a tree is tasty? :)

Does Mr. Kipper call it "white birch beer"? It's very popular in New England but usually just called "birch beer". I like it....it's got a lighter taste than root beer. They sell it in convenience stores between the ginger ale and the pepsi.

There's a hot dot place in Cheshire, CT (Blackies) that has it on tap. Fanta makes it, probably just for them, they sell more Birch Beer (two taps on each fountain) then coke and diet coke at one tap each. I like it.

Yeah, I like the generic label they have.

I took my wife there last Christmas while going with my mom to Costco. My wife thought it was "ok". Then again, she's a native Texan and they have no idea what a good hot dog is here. I've been known to bring back a ten pound box of Martin Rosol's from time to time to try and culture these people....:D

that cause there is no such thing as a good hotdog, ANYWHERE!

now a brat can be yum :)
(and I am a Texan)

Blackies is dope.

Foxon Park (another CT company) makes a good birch beer. I know Louis Lunch serves it.

I live in the New Haven Area and buy Foxon Park by the case. I love the smell of Birch Beer!

I've seen clear birch beer (is that what you mean by 'white'?) from Polar but not tried it; I'm more familiar with the brown-colored stuff made and sold in the mid-Atlantic states by several soft drink manufacturers.

The flavor of birch beer, while similar to root beer, is different enough that I wouldn't consider the two 'six of one, half-dozen of the other'.

I have also tried(and enjoyed)Spruce beer-which is very "piney"I don't think it would be my regular beverage but it is different.

Not to be confused with Alaskan Winter Ale; it's a beer spiced with spruce tips.

From Alaskan's website:

From the seafaring adventurers of the 1700s to the homebrewers of today, adding spruce tips to beer has a rich history in Southeast Alaska. The tender new growth of Sitka spruce tips lends a delicious, yet subtly sweet floral aroma to tea, jelly and now Alaskan Winter Ale.

So, uhm, it's non-alcoholic?

What, no moose chips??? ;)

White is clear.
I have seen it as an Amber also

Very

Nice! I don't drink much soda but when I'm at a place that has birch I usually get it.

It matches up with New Haven Pizza perfectly :cool:

Yes, it's white birch beer--the label on the 12 pack says, "White Birch Beer."
I'm familiar with brown-colored birch beer, but until shortly before the OP, I'd never heard of white birch beer.

I've seen clear and red birch beer. We made birch beer at summer camp. It was non-carbonated and I have no idea of the ingredients since I was probably 8 at the time. It did taste right though. I've never seen it outside the northeast.

You don't remember the ingredients? :D

Having tasted it, I can honestly say it tastes like Pepto Bismol. Yuck!

I am firmly in the 'Yuck' camp. I tried it at the World of Coca-Cola! in Atlanta along with thousands of screaming 'over-sugared' kids!! Although I am not sure whether it was the White Birch Beer or the Coca-Cola tasting room that traumatised me!

Glad to know I'm not the only one!

White Birch Beer
 

I love it and Birch Beer! It originated in Pennsylvania. I drank it as a child as my Dad was from Pennsylvania and was brought up on it. Oh, the Memories!