Customer Reviews

Boylan Bottleworks 12 oz. Grape 12pack

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I am a soda fan, trying sodas from all over the country. As far as grape sodas go, this one is the absolute best, hands down. I loved grape sodas as a kids, but find the few that are made nowadays to be over sweet, too syrupy, and the grape seems too fake. There is a reason for this, first is that most bootlers use more carbonation in sodas than they used too and it overwhelms the flavor. Second, the soda companies switched to high fructose corn syrup in the 1970's in order to save money, but the corn syrup makes it taste, well, syrupy. It weighs the flavor down into a mess. But there are some premium brands that use real cane sugar, just like the old days. That and a bit less carbonation, and you have a soda that tastes like they used to back when.
Boylan's grape really does has an oaky concord grape flavor, like real grape juice, and does not taste like artificial grape flavoring. That and the lighter carbonation make this the best grape soda I have tried in over 30 years.

The company: Originally brewed in 1891, the New York classic "Boylan's Birch Beer" started in a apothecary in the early 1890's and developed into the most popular flavor of The Boylan Sodaworks. Boylan was a bottling and keg filling operation located in the heart of Paterson, NJ, the first industrialized city in the country. Competition increased however, and in the 1930's Boylan was forced to close its bottling lines, leaving Boylan's Draught Birch Beer as its only product. Shortly thereafter, the rights to the name, the formula, and the sole route was purchased by the driver. His grandkids the Fiorina's still run the company in New Jersey today, and have expanded again to near a dozen very delicious flavors. They recently changed packaging to the very good looking and nostalgic bottles with raised lettering and painted on labels. Look for my other soda reviews at Amazon.

You can't beat this. It's woody and spicy like it's been aged in oak barrels - doesn't taste like a cheap, melted grape popsicle. You can't go wrong with this.

I'm a huge grape soda fan. The problem is that so many grape sodas are too heavy on the sweet and not very "grapey". After testing a few different brands, I settled on Welches grape for a decent, easy to find grape soda thats high in grape flavor and doesn't have that syrupy-sweet, bad aftertaste, and I had pretty much resigned myself to the probable fact that Welches was about as good a grape soda as I was likely to find. Then I saw this stuff one day at my grocery store and gave it a try. It has a strong, complex grape flavor. It tastes like lightly carbonated grape-juice, not like most grape sodas. It's not overly sweet and syrupy, and it has no artificial, chemical aftertaste (like Fanta has.) It's really in it's own category. It's a lot more expensive, and normally I pick-up welches for my daily grape fix, but for a great soda once in a while it's perfect. Best I've ever had, really. Definitely a "sipping" soda, not a "Chugging" one. You'll want to enjoy this one for a long time.

I never thought I'd pay $2.50 for the same amount of liquid that's in a regular can of soda, but this is worth it. It has a classic taste to it, with the bottle and the real sugar, a perfect level of tartness, sweet but not too sweet.

My son loves grape soda and years ago he was served a Boylan Grape Soda which he never forgot. For his 12th birthday I looked all over Seattle for the soda - to no avail. Finally I went on-line and, of course, where did I find it - amazon.com. I ordered - and 4 days later a twelve-pack showed up - - securely packed - and most importantly my son tells me it was as delicious as he remembered.