Root beer is made from the Sassafras tree, its bark for color and its Root for flavor. Thus it is called "Root Beer". Sassparilla is its name during the temperance years.
Root Beer
Root Beer was originally an alcoholic beverage with about the same alcohol content as beer.
Root beer was banned in Ireland primarily due to its content of sassafras oil, which contains safrole, a compound that was deemed potentially harmful and carcinogenic. In the 1960s, the Irish government prohibited the use of safrole in food and beverages, leading to the ban on root beer. Although it is no longer strictly enforced, the legacy of this regulation still affects the availability of root beer in Ireland today.
Originally named 'Root Tea' the name of the drink was changed to Root Beer, so as to attract larger markets of hard-drinking Pennsylvania miners. The public loved the new drink and as a result, Hires introduced commercial root beer to the public in 1876, Beer was around way before then.
it was originally made as a non alcoholic beer. from roots. but then progressed as a soda, and the name was never changed
Well, I know that it is made from saspirilla roots so that is probably why it is called ROOT beer. Now about the beer, I have no idea. Maybe because it's color makes it look like beer? Maybe you could search it on Wikipedia MSN Google Yahoo! You obviously do have no idea. The first sarsaparilla root drink manufactured and sold was introduced at a state fair. The seller named it "root tea", but was quickly advised that people in the area were unlikely to buy it with that name, so he changed it to "root beer" and it sold very well. Most modern Root Beers are colored with caramel to get that color, the normal color is much lighter.
Root beer smooth is likely to be the "top of the barrel" of root beers. Therefore it is lighter than root beer regular.
It depends what root beer you drink to be honest.
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Yes root beer is brown
They have root beer available
A root beer float has vanilla ice cream in it. Root beer itself does not contain vanilla.