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Root beer. Root beer is a sweet North American soft drink traditionally made using the root bark of the sassafras tree Sassafras albidum or the vine of Smilax ornata (known as sarsaparilla; also used to make a soft drink called sarsaparilla) as the primary flavor. Root beer is typically, but not exclusively, non-alcoholic, caffeine-free, sweet ...
Root beer, sweet, nonalcoholic, carbonated beverage commonly flavored with extracts of roots and herbs. Invented in North America, the drink has characteristic herbal, earthy notes that have traditionally been imparted by sassafras root (Sassafras albidum), wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens), or
The first commercial root beer was made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA by Charles Hires in 1876, 10 years before Coca-Cola, according to Philly Magazine. However, root beer is thought to have been made and consumed as early as the 1500s. Beer have been enjoyed for many hundreds of years, and Shakespeare referred to ‘small beers’ many ...
Jun 22, 2014 · In Pennsylvania, sassafras oil was used to flavor beer, which became known as root beer. When the soft drink version of root beer became popular, sassafras oil remained a key ingredient. In the nineteenth century, American cowboys often ordered ‘sarsaparilla’ or root beer because it was both the most widely used treatment for syphilis and was also considered a male aphrodisiac.
Aug 9, 2019 · The result was a combination of more than 25 herbs, berries, and roots that Hires used to flavor carbonated soda water. At Conwell's urging, Hires introduced his version of root beer to the public at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial exhibition. Hires' Root Beer was a hit. In 1893, the Hires family first sold and distributed bottled root beer.
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Nov 18, 2023 · A sampling fountain at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876 launched “Hires Root Beer” as the first nationally distributed brand name soft drink. Hires Root Beer ad from 1919: “The natural flavor of real root juices makes Hires more delicious than imitation root beers”.
Oct 20, 2022 · Rich people drank beer and avoided all those little microbes. And so, St. Arnold started making beer, including a "small beer” with only 2 percent alcohol: voila! Root beer. Another source – "the beer guys” – trace it back to Shakespeare’s day. "Shakespeare talks of a ‘small beer,’” it notes, and apparently that "small ...
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