Hires brewed his own root beverage and changed the name to “root beer” to make it more appealing to coal miners. His instincts paid off: Hires was the first to market root beer on a mass scale, ...

With their help, he created the first powdered root beer, which consumers were to mix with yeast, sugar, and water. That ...

Poppi Is Changing the Flavor of Its Root Beer After Posting the Funniest Insults from Customers: ‘We Heard You Loud and Clear’ The prebiotic soda brand announced a "new and improved" formula ...

Reporter Daniel Higgins blind taste-tested five Wisconsin root beer brands: Potosi, Baumeister, Point Premium, Sprecher, Jolly Good and Twig's.

IBC was established in 1919, Dad's was founded in 1937 and Mug was created in 1940. Why is a root beer float called a black cow? A black cow was the original name given to the root beer float.