Sioux City Sarsaparilla

The granddaddy of all Root Beers, our Sioux City Sarsaparilla takes your taste buds back to the Old West.  Vintage style rood beer made with pure cane sugar.

In the US, sarsaparilla is traditionally made with birch oil rather than the tropical plant. The classic sarsaparilla was not made from the extract of the sarsaparilla plant, a tropical vine distantly related to the lily. It was originally made from a blend of birch oil and sassafras, the dried root bark of the sassafras tree. But in 1960 the FDA banned the use of sassafras oil in foodstuffs because of its carcinogenic properties. And so all Sarsaparilla sodas that you find in the US market today are made from things that are not really Sarsaparilla. Likely birch oil or similar flavoring. Sioux City Sarsaparilla only goes so far as to say "natural and artificial flavors" on its label. That's not to say it isn't good, it's just so you know what you're actually drinking.