Charles Hires was a Quaker pharmacist who wanted to create a beverage as an alternative to alcohol.
Hires root beer was not available for sale in 1866. Charles Hire a pharmacist did not start retailing his Root Beer until 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition.
Hires Root Beer was created in 1876.
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In Detroit,Michigan they do not sell hires root beer brand but the have old town root beer sold there as a delicacy! They also have many other brands!
Snapple owns the recipe
you can order it from amazon. they just got it.
It was made in 1898 http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ms/state/didyouknow.htm
You can not. Kirchners bev in Lancaster used to distribute it but they can no longer get it
The very first soda ever to be invented was Hires Root Beer in 1866.
In a lot of places, but mostly grocery stores and gas stations.
On May 16th, 1939, the United States began their food stamp program. On May 16, 1866, root beer was invented by Charles Elmer Hires.