root beer

     

Root beer, also known as sarsaparilla, is a carbonate beverage originally created from sassafras. Root beer, popularized in North America, comes in two forms: alcoholic and soft drink.

Trivia about root beer

  • At the A&W restaurants, order your burgers with a frosty mug of this beverage that they're famous for
  • It was the first soft drink bottled under the A&W brand name
  • In 1998 Barq's, a brand of this beverage, celebrates its 100th birthday
  • It was the first soft-drink flavor bottled under the A&W brand name
  • In the 1870s a friend told Charles Hires that his root tea would sell better under this name
  • Philadelphia pharmacist Charles Hires invented this beverage in the mid-1800s
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  • Philadelphia pharmicist Charles Hires commercialized this type of soda in the mid-1800s
  • Sassafras & sarsaparilla originally went into & helped name this soft drink
  • With Prohibition coming, IBC began making this in 1919, & it still sells it in the same brown bottles