10 Facts About Root beer

Root beer is a sweet North American soft drink traditionally made using the root bark of the sassafras tree Sassafras albidum or the vine of Smilax ornata as the primary flavor.

Root beer is typically but not exclusively non-alcoholic, caffeine-free, sweet, and carbonated.

Root beer has been sold in confectionery stores since the 1840s, and written recipes for root beer have been documented since the 1860s.

Tradition of brewing root beer is thought to have evolved out of other small beer traditions that produced fermented drinks with very low alcohol content that were thought to be healthier to drink than possibly tainted local sources of drinking water, and enhanced by the medicinal and nutritional qualities of the ingredients used.

Non-alcoholic versions of root beer became commercially successful, especially during Prohibition.

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IBC Root Beer is another brand of commercially-produced root beer that emerged during this period and is still well-known today.

One traditional recipe for making root beer involves cooking a syrup from molasses and water, letting the syrup cool for three hours, and combining it with the root ingredients .

Root beer was originally made with sassafras root and bark which, due to its mucilaginous properties, formed a natural, long lasting foam, a characteristic feature of the beverage.

Some brands of root beer have distinctive foaming behaviors, which has been used as part of their marketing identity.

Root beer can be made at home with processed extract obtained from a factory, or it can be made from herbs and roots that have not yet been processed.