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Lost Trail Craft Soda

The secret to keeping the effervescent gusto of Lost Trail Soda is to use a “small batch” process. This microbrewed, draft-style method ensures an old-fashioned taste and high quality.

We created our flavorful draft style, old fashioned Root Beer from the original formula

— encountered by Joe Marshall (great-great grandfather of Shelly Schierman–one of Louisburg Cider Mill’s founders), and it became so popular that a new family of sodas was created. Louisburg’s Lost Trail Craft Sodas are brewed at the Cider Mill bottling plant, and the draft style, micro-brewed process ensures smooth and creamy authentic old fashioned flavor.


Lost Trail is our line of products with an Old West theme

— inspired by the travels of Joe Marshall. Told to be one of the original followers of the Santa Fe Trail, tales of his adventures were passed down through the family. Joe Marshall will now forever be a character of Lost Trail lore.


"I been a lookin' for the Santa Fe Trail three daysn ow. Met up with some good folks. They give me some grub and something to wet my whistle. Say they call it "Root Beer" - been a makin' this brew from roots and herbs. Think I'll forget the trail and just settle here"

-- From the journal of Joe Marshall, somewhere off the Santa Fe Trail, May 15, 1848


The Lost Trail line began with a smooth and creamy root beer, Lost Trail Root Beer. The recipe for our root beer was said to be inspired by the original root beer formula encountered somewhere off the Santa Fe Trail by the aforementioned Joe Marshall.


The secret to keeping the effervescent gusto of Lost Trail Soda is to use a “small batch” process. This micro-brewed, draft style method ensures an old fashioned taste and the high quality. You may have already tried our Lost Trail Soda and know what we’re talking about.

But, if you’ve never enjoyed the old fashioned flavorful qualities of these beverages -– A delicious experience awaits you!


Lost Trail Root Beer was such a favorite that it wasn’t long before other Lost Trail soda flavors “hit the trail”. The Lost Trail Soda line of locally brewed, original formula soda beverages includes: Root Beer, Diet Root Beer, Sarsaparilla, Cream Soda, Strawberry Cream, Orange Cream, Black Cherry, Ginger Brew, and Sugar Cane.


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