Hard soda
Hard soda, also referred to as flavored beer, adult soda, fermented soda, mature soda and alcohol soda, is a type of alcoholic beverage and craft beer that is manufactured in the style of a soft drink.[2][3] It has gained recent prominence in the United States after the success of the Not Your Father's Root Beer brand manufactured by Small Town Brewery. As of late May 2016, at least 39 hard soda brands exist in the United States.
Overview
United States
Hard soda is a relatively new
As of late May 2016, the hard soda category comprises over 1 percent of total overall beer category sales in the United States.
Canada
In Canada, the Mill Street Brewery in Toronto, which is owned by
Low and non-alcohol flavored beer
In Indonesia, Multi Bintang produces a non/low alcohol flavored beer named Bintang Radler, which is produced in grapefruit and lemon flavors.[6] The grapefruit flavor was introduced in 2015 and the lemon flavor was introduced in February 2016.[6]
Uses
In addition to being drunk as-is, hard soda root beer products are sometimes used as an ingredient in the
See also
- Alcopop
- Chuhai
- Fassbrause
- Hard cider
- Hard seltzer
- Mike's Hard Lemonade Co.
- Queen Mary (cocktail)
- Shandy
References
- ^ "Not Your Father's Root Beer". Finley Beer. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Rotunno, Tom (May 29, 2016). "No hard times for hard soda as sales soar, new brands sprout". CNBC. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
- ^ a b c d e Mickle, Tripp (August 13, 2015). "Not So Soft Drink: Brewers Add Booze to Root Beer". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
- ^ Genovese, Peter (January 29, 2016). "Hard soda takes nation by storm: Which ones are the best, worst?". NJ.com. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g Wright, Lisa (June 11, 2016). "Boozy root beer coming to Canada - just in time for summer". Toronto Star. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
- ^ a b "Beer in Indonesia". Global Consumer Market Research Products. Euromonitor. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
- ^ Williams, Candy (June 14, 2016). "Craft brew, food tasting event set for Monroeville". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Retrieved June 15, 2016.