Some people say that Rootbeer is a type of beer.Is that true???

Answer 1

No. It's a soda, not any kind of beer.

Answer 2

"Beer" has more than one definition actually, and only some beer is fermented:
a. A fermented alcoholic beverage brewed from malt and flavored with hops.
b. A fermented beverage brewed by traditional methods that is then dealcoholized so that the finished product contains no more than 0.5 percent alcohol.
c. A carbonated beverage produced by a method in which the fermentation process is either circumvented or altered, resulting in a finished product having an alcohol content of no more than 0.01 percent.

So Rootbeer is "c". So is birch beer and gingerbeer.

Answer 3

No its not. There is a certain type of plants called "bir" (Its read 'Beer' in english), and its roots can be extracted for a drink in middle-east. But i think the rootbeer youre asking is a kind of soda. Its not a type of beer. But beware though, there are some beer brand names called "Roots Beer".

Answer 4

Rootbeer is a type of soda, but I've heard that rootbeer is better on your gums then cola type soft drinks because it doesn't have the same amount of acid.

Answer 5

Main Entry: beer
Pronunciation: 'bir
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English ber, from Old English bEor; akin to Old High German bior beer
1 : an alcoholic beverage usually made from malted cereal grain (as barley), flavored with hops, and brewed by slow fermentation
2 : a carbonated nonalcoholic or a fermented slightly alcoholic beverage with flavoring from roots or other plant parts
3 : fermented mash
4 : a drink of beer

Yes, by the second definition, root beer (also birch beer) is beer. Why did you think they called it that?

Answer 6

If rootbeer and beer were the same... I'dve been an alcoholic a long, long time ago! lol.

Why drink rootbeer when you can have IBC cream soda instead. :-) Goes down smooth, hehe

Answer 7

That was once true, when a beverage was brewed from birch bark, and birch roots, hence, "rootbeer"
However, root beer of today is only flavored soda

Answer 8

Well, yes and no. True root beer, which is brewed using roots, is technically beer. But today's root beers, which are not brewed but are just flavored carbonated drinks, much like Coke and Sprite, are not technically beers. In order for something to be called "beer," it must go through a brewing process. Actual, old-school root beer is in fact beer--it's just not alcoholic. Same with ginger beer (or ginger ale), if it is brewed. If it's just flavored carbonation, then it's not true beer.

Answer 9

Untrue. It's origins are actually quite the opposite. The reason it tastes like medicine, is because originally, it was made with medicine in it. It was made with a mixture of cough syrup and seltzer water. Good question!

Answer 10

No, that's false. It is a soda that you get in grocery stores, restaurants & gas stations to name a few. You can also get root beer from a coin operated soda dispenser.

Answer 11

no root beer is a drink from the root of a tree. it was bottled into a bottle that looked like beer and people started calling it beer i guess. something like that