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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.
Aug 9, 2019 · 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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Originally Hires packaged the mixture in boxes and sold it to housewives and soda fountains. They needed to mix in water, sugar and yeast. Hires would become the largest manufacturer of the soft drink “root beer” in the world. But at first the drink was slow to catch on.
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”.
Early History. That carbonated, creamy, soft and foamy drink we love known as Root Beer has a long history. In 1265, the British Isles enjoyed a Dandelion and Durdock beverage; it was a naturally fizzy soft drink and is still made there today.
In the 19th century, American colonists brewed the antecedent root beers in their homes from a variety of ingredients, often serving their concoctions as hot teas. In the 1840s, the first root beer began to appear in confectionaries and general stores, bottled in stoneware and sold for medicinal use.
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The Charles Hires' version of the root beer beverage was first introduced to the public at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial exhibition. The Hires family continued to manufacture root beer and in 1893 first sold and distributed bottled root beer.
