Hi I'm Bob I'm New Here. What's Root Beer? I Like Diet Sugarfree Snapple With A Lime Slice. Should I Make A Newcomer Thread And Introduce Myself There?
coke vs pepsi poll? well coke has apparently less than 0.1% of actual coke in the stuff that people get high on. but its so low on the percentage that they aren't legally obliged to expose it as such
Well yes, but you see, I just don't give a damn. (Reply on assumption you aware what root beer is) Dammit bob, I told you to go to hell. Do i need to call you a cab?
Root beer is some kind of beer, right? Someone mentioned soda, but why the f would you name a soda a root beer?
The History of Root Beer Charles Hires first sold commercial root beer to the public in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. Charles Hires was a Philadelphia pharmacist who according to his biography discovered a recipe for a delicious herbal tea while on his honeymoon. The pharmacist began selling a dry version of the tea mixture and also began working on a liquid version of the same tea. The result of was a combination of over twenty-five herbs, berries and roots that Charles Hires used to flavor a carbonated soda water drink. The Charles Hires' version of the root beer beverage was first introduced to the public at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial exhibition. The Hires family continued to manufacture root beer and in 1893 first sold and distributed bottled root beer. Charles Hires and his family certainly contributed greatly to the popularity of modern root beer, however, the origins of root beer can be traced further back in history. Root beer has its origins in what is referred to as "small beers." Small beers are a collection of local beverages (some alcoholic, some not) made during colonial times in America from a variety of herbs, barks, and roots that included: birch beer, sarsparilla beer, ginger beer and root beer. Ingredients in early root beers included allspice, birch bark, coriander, juniper, ginger, wintergreen, hops, burdock root, dandelion root, spikenard, pipsissewa, guaiacum chips, sarsaparilla, spicewood, wild cherry bark, yellow dock, prickly ash bark, sassafras root*, vanilla beans, hops, dog grass, molasses and licorice. Many of these ingredients are still used in root beer today along with carbonation. There is no one recipe. Another famous brand of root beer is A & W Root Beer, now the number one selling root beer in the world. A & W Root Beer was founded by Roy Allen, who began marketing root beer in 1919. In 1960, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned sassafras as a potential carcinogen, however, a method was found to remove the oil from sassafras. Only the oil is considered dangerous. Sassafras is one of the main ingredients in root beer. I DON'T KNOW!!!
Nope. It was originally brewed like a beer from what I understand. Wait... Does this mean you've never tasted root beer?'
Dude, are you serious?? That's crazy!!! That's asinine! No, that's asi-ten!! Seriously, though, man, it's some damn good soda. My favorite is Barq's Root Beer. EDIT: Although, APPARENTLY, Virgil's is the best...
I was about to call my agents and order a hit tonight before I saw that edit. You, my friend, are very much deprived.
