Here at The Takeout, the perfect root beer has a pronounced spiced flavor and isn't overly sweet. That's why this ...

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 ...

15. Summit. This root beer brand looks exactly like what you think it does: an authentic root beer from the 1930s that had its original debut in a pharmacy-slash-apothecary.

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.

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

However, other comments expressed enthusiasm for the original root beer, such as one that read, “I hope it’s not too different.” In an earlier Instagram post this week, Poppi shared some of the social ...