Encyclopedia > Root beer

  Article Content

Root beer

Root beer is a non-alcoholic beverage made from some combination of Bourbon Vanilla, Licorice Root, Sarsaparilla Root Extract[?], Sasafrass Root Extract, Nutmeg, Anise, and Wintergreen[?] among other things. Root beer is about 3% of the U.S. soda market.

It was invented by Charles Elmer Hires[?] on May 16, 1866.

Root beer brands include:

External links



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Westhampton Beach, New York

... size is 2.25 and the average family size is 2.81. In the village the population is spread out with 20.5% under the age of 18, 6.1% from 18 to 24, 24.6% from 25 to 44, ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 24.2 ms