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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. Root beer is typically, but not exclusively, non-alcoholic, caffeine-free, sweet, and ...
Hires Root Beer is an American brand of root beer that was manufactured by Keurig Dr Pepper. Introduced in 1876, it was one of the longest continuously made soft drinks in the United States. [ 1 ]
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 ...
The world's largest root beer float was created in 1990, when Barq's Root Beer cooperated with a Pick N Save grocery store in Dekalb, Illinois by mixing 1,500 U.S. gallons (5,700 L) of Barq’s root beer with 1,000 U.S. gallons (3,800 L) of vanilla ice cream in an above-ground swimming pool.
Hires reportedly learned about root beer on his honeymoon in New Jersey, where the woman who ran the hotel served an herbal tea made from roots known as "root tea". [4] His friend Russell Conwell, who went on to found Temple University, suggested that "root beer" would be more appealing to the working class.
When life handed Kamal Mohamed lemons, he made root beer floats. During his sophomore year at South High School in Minneapolis, Mohamed failed to make the varsity football team. So, after his JV ...
Dad's Root Beer was established in the 1930s [2] by partners Barney Berns and Ely Klapman in the basement of Klapman's Chicago-area home. The first trademark registration was filed on September 24, 1938, granted on February 14, 1939, to the Dad's Root Beer Company of Chicago, with the product name in use since February 1937.
Made from sarsaparilla vines rather than the roots of a sassafras tree, the flavor is very close to root beer. Either way, Sioux City knows what it’s doing, and you'll get both in this four ...