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Mar 12, 2024 · The main ingredients in root beer are pretty much the same as any other soda: water, high fructose corn syrup, caramel coloring, and flavoring, both natural and artificial. However, root beer’s unique flavor comes from sassafras, a tree root native to the United States.
So root beer as it is known today is basically a carbonated sugar water drink flavored to mimic the taste of sarsaparilla. Most people would find root beer comparable to Coca-Cola in density, carbonation, color and sweetness except that it has a distinctive flavor.
May 15, 2024 · Root beer is a soda that can taste sweet, spicy, and slightly herbaceous. Root beer does not have caffeine or alcohol, and is a popular soda drink in Utah, as well as Kentucky, Maine, and...
Nov 3, 2024 · While root beer remains a staple beverage in many parts of the world, it is especially popular in the state of Utah for a number of unsurprising reasons.
- Sprecher. Here it is. The top dog... or griffin, as the case (of root beer) may be. From the mighty fires of Sprecher Brewing in Glendale, WI springs the honey-sweetened and malted root beer nectar of the gods.
- Bulldog. Bulldog tries harder and is justifiably proud of its dedication to perfection. With pure vanilla (no vanillin here!) and a devotion to old methods of preparation that create more complex flavors, you'd be well-advised to follow the company's advice on consumption (chilled, no ice) to fully enjoy the volatile honey and vanilla presence that they've so thoughtfully kept light on carbonation to preserve.
- Hank's. If you like creamy root beers, Hank's is your beverage. If you don't like creamy root beers, go drink lesser soda, heretic — wait, come back, that was unfair.
- Saranac. Saranac Brewery (really F.X. Matt Brewing) boasts that only a true brewery can make the natural strong head that their root beer displays, and whether or not that's true, they can't make a bad beer, and since 1995 Saranac has made a very good root beer.
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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.