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Technically, the number one Root Beer company was Coca-Cola, which used all of the primary ingredients of Root Beer plus the extract of the kola nut. Founder, John S. Pemberton was a pharmacist in Atlanta, who enjoyed mixing drink extracts in his drug store. He sold $25 worth of Coca-Cola the first year, in 1886. Prior to 1850, Root Beer was made
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Hires’ beverage was very popular, and he can probably be credited with launching the “modern” root beer movement in America. If Hires can be credited with launching it, it was probably Roy Allen, founder of A&W Root Beer, that can be credited with sending the movement to new heights. A&W was founded in 1919, and since then has become the ...
Edward Charles Edmond Barq invented Barq’s Root Beer about 1898. He had previously created a drink called Orangine, when he worked for his brother’s bottling company in New Orleans. Barq moved to Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1897 and continued his experiments that lead to his root beer. His company was one of the earliest to use 12-ounce bottles.
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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 ...
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 ...
Root beer is flavored with a dis-tillate of the young shoots or root bark of Sassofras_variifolium, a member of the laurel family. Sassafras has also been used to make tea for medicinal and enjoy-ment, and to make a yellow dye. In addition, an oil from sassafras fruit has been used in perfumery.
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Jul 31, 2011 · Root beer is also part of the history of the Sonic chain of drive-in restaurants. The company began as a hamburger and root beer stand in Shawnee, Oklahoma, in nineteen fifty-three. Today it has more than three thousand five hundred restaurants across the United States. Almost a thousand of them are in Texas.
