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Root Beer Flavor
What root beer tastes like and why, from sassafras and the 1960 safrole ban to wintergreen, vanilla and licorice, and how to build a root beer flavor today.
October 23, 2026 · 3 min
Topic
Soda
8 pages tagged soda
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What Flavor Is Coke?
What Coca-Cola tastes like, how it differs from Pepsi, what the company has and has not disclosed, and what that means if you are building a cola-type flavor.
October 23, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Big Red?
What Big Red tastes like, why it is a vanilla cream soda despite the red color, and how to build a red cream soda for drinks, floats and frozen treats.
October 22, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Mountain Dew?
What Mountain Dew tastes like, how orange juice, citric acid and caffeine shape it, and what it takes to build a cloudy citrus soda now that BVO is gone.
October 20, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Butterbeer?
What butterbeer tastes like, the butterscotch chemistry behind it, what Universal has said about its version, and how to build a butterscotch cream soda.
October 19, 2026 · 3 min
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Cola Flavor
What cola flavor is made of (citrus oils, vanilla, spice, phosphoric acid and caramel color), where the kola nut fits, and how to build a cola that holds up.
October 15, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Baja Blast?
What Mountain Dew Baja Blast tastes like, what PepsiCo has and has not said about the flavor, and what goes wrong when you build a tropical lime soda.
October 15, 2026 · 3 min
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What Flavor Is Dr Pepper?
What Dr Pepper tastes like, which aroma compounds carry its cherry, almond and vanilla notes, and how to build a Dr Pepper-type flavor that holds up.
October 14, 2026 · 3 min