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A&W Root Beer is an American brand of root beer that was founded in 1919 by Roy W. Allen [3] and primarily available in the United States and Canada. Allen partnered with Frank Wright in 1922, creating the A&W brand and inspiring a chain of A&W Restaurants founded that year. Originally, A&W Root Beer sold for five cents (equivalent to $0.91 in ...
Root beer has been drunk in the United States since at least the eighteenth century. It has been sold in confectionery stores since at least the 1840s, and written recipes for root beer have been documented since the 1830s. [4]: 32 In the nineteenth century, it was often consumed hot and was often used with medicinal intent. It was combined ...
An 1894 American Trade Card for Hires Root Beer A Hires Root Beer mug from the 1930s or earlier. Hires Root Beer was created by Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pharmacist Charles Elmer Hires. The official story is that Hires first tasted root beer, a traditional American beverage dating back to the colonial era, while on his honeymoon in 1875. [2]
The root beer was so popular that the company began selling the drink in bottles and cans in 1971. Today, A&W is still famous for that draft-style root beer, along with decadent root beer floats ...
A&W Root Beer is lending its flavor to a new type of treat. The A&W Root Beer-flavored cotton candy "delivers the classic taste of root beer in a light, airy, and melt-in-your-mouth cotton candy ...
The root beer is available to take home by the gallon, and Grandma's cole slaw is sold by pints and quarts. What to order: The Tex Burger is two beef patties, cheese, Coney sauce, another special ...
A&W Restaurants, Inc. (also known as Allen & Wright Restaurants) is an American fast food restaurant chain distinguished by its "Burger Family" combos, draft root beer and root beer floats. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] A&W's origins date back to 1919 when Roy W. Allen set up a roadside drink stand to offer a new thick and creamy drink, root beer, at a parade ...
A&W Root Beer and A&W cream soda – licensed by Dr Pepper/Seven Up to local bottlers [106] Bawls; Barton Springs Soda Co; Barq's – the only major American root beer with caffeine. Big Ben's - Catawissa Bottling Company - line of soft drinks. Known for their Blue Birch Beer. Sold in Northeastern Pennsylvania.