Root beer is a soda drink
Major makers are: Hires and A & W
This is rootbeer with a scoop of vanilla ice cream in it.
A refreshing treat.
Google the compamy names I provided for more info.
Other ingredients may include allspice, birch bark, coriander, juniper, ginger, wintergreen, hops, burdock root, dandelion root, spikenard, pipsissewa, guaiacum, yellow dock, honey, clover, cinnamon, prickly ash bark, quillaia, and yucca.
Due to the wide variety of ingredients possible the flavor of root beer is widely variable between brands. This is especially true of local brands. Root beer is very similar in taste to sarsaparilla, which may also be called root beer.
In Britain, there are several differentiated root beers, which rose to prominence with the temperance movement in the 20th century. These include sarsaparilla, dandelion and burdock, and ginger beer. They were strongly flavored drinks that people could use as an alternative to alcoholic beverages, and there tended to be a strong local preference for one of these. Well into the 1960s, these outsold cola drinks.
(e-mail me if you would like me to send some to you for his birthday,nice surprize!)
2006-08-25 00:25:59
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answered by Irina C 6
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Roots
2006-08-27 11:26:04
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answered by bo nidle 4
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Root beer is made from a combination of vanilla, cherry tree bark, licorice root, sarsaparilla root, sassafras root bark , nutmeg, anise, and molasses.
http://www.root-beer.org/
2006-08-25 00:33:33
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answered by StéphanDeGlasgow 5
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Sugar, corn syrup, vanilla, cherry tree bark, licorice root, sarsaparilla root, sassafras root bark, nutmeg, anise, molasses... the list goes on, buddy.
Wikipedia is a powerful tool...
And Sassafras root bark is carcinogenic, apparently <_<
Back to ginger ale for me...
2006-08-25 00:27:06
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answered by Curious J, Esq. 6
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Root beer is made from Vanilla, cherry tree bark, licorice root, sarsaparilla root, sassafras root bark.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_beer
2006-08-25 00:26:03
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answered by Anonymous
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made from a combination of vanilla, cherry tree bark, licorice root, sarsaparilla root, sassafras root bark (which is carcinogenic), nutmeg, anise, and molasses among other ingredients.
2006-08-25 03:09:21
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answered by Curious 3
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Vanilla
2006-08-27 03:31:26
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answered by brogdenuk 7
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i know there is an actual root it is made from, scope the net and you'll find out. i love it and miss it here in the u.k.
....well, sainsbury's make it, but it taste like crap.....they've obviously never had the real thing. make it right or don't bother! same with their ginger ale. BARF !!!!
2006-08-25 00:30:45
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answered by canada grl 4
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Wintergreen
2006-08-25 00:27:09
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answered by ycaruss y 3
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its a "heavier" ginger ale,,,,, ie: ginger root, and syrups, sugars, etc.... and differents roots are used, depending on the brand.
2006-08-25 02:08:02
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answered by steelmadison 4
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