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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 ...
May 18, 2023 · The Ancient Roots of Root Beer. Root beer can trace its origins back some 7,000 years. That’s right, 7,000 years. At that time a crude version of the drink that more closely resembled beer than any kind of soft drink was being consumed by people in what is now Eastern Europe as well as parts of the Middle East, including pre-pharaonic Egypt.
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It is thought that modern, carbonated root beer was originally inspired by the non-carbonated medicinal root teas made by Indigenous North Americans. Although such teas were made from any number of fragrant leaves, roots, barks, fruits, and flowers, the plants sassafras, wintergreen, and sarsaparilla were commonly used, and these three ingredients would define commercial root beer’s flavor ...
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”.
Root beer can trace its roots back to ancient Native American tribes who utilized the medicinal properties of various plants and roots for concoctions and remedies. These early versions of root beer were made by fermenting certain roots and herbs to create a mildly alcoholic and pleasantly flavored beverage. However, it was not until the 19th ...
Apr 21, 2023 · Root beer remained popular into the 1900s, but 20th-century science eventually disproved the idea that sugary sodas were any good for people. In the 1960s, the FDA also banned food and drinks from using sassafras oil due to its carcinogenic nature. So, root beer recipes nationwide had to be retooled. It was eventually discovered how to remove ...
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Dec 8, 2021 · A&W also jumped on the root beer bandwagon in the wake of Hires, in 1919. A&W lays claim to a major innovation: selling root beer cold in frosted mugs. The ice-cold root beer was a revelation to people used to room-temperature root beer (I shudder to imagine), and with this innovation, A&W grew rapidly during prohibition just like Barq’s.
