what is the difference between root beer and normal beer?

Answer 1

root beer is a soda and has no alcohol

Answer 2

"The English language has lots of words that are used in two or three different ways. For example, the word "cabinet" can mean "storage space in your kitchen" or "a group of folks who advise the president." Beer is a word with two meanings. It can mean an alcoholic beverage made from cereal grains, or a non-alcoholic beverage flavored by root extracts. Root beer, birch beer and ginger beer are three common forms of this non-alcoholic sort of beer.

In the case of root beer, the flavoring comes from the root of the sassafras tree or the sarsaparilla vine. Originally, the root was brewed like a tea to make an extract, but now it is much easier to buy the extract ready-made.

The root beer extract is mixed with sugar, yeast and water. If this mixture is placed in a tightly sealed bottle, the yeast will generate carbon dioxide at a high enough pressure to carbonate the water. You end up with fizzy, delicious root beer! "

Beer is defined as:
A fermented liquor made from any malted grain, but commonly from barley malt, with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.

Root beer can be purchased by anyone, since there is no alcohol in its ingredients. However; beer contains alcohol and may only legally be purchased by those over 21 years of age.

Answer 3

Root Beer is a pop
Beer is a alcoholic beverage

Answer 4

Root beer is a fermented beverage made from a combination of vanilla, cherry tree bark, licorice root, sarsaparilla root, sassafras root bark (which is mildly carcinogenic), nutmeg, anise, and molasses among other ingredients. Many local brands of root beer exist, and homemade root beer is made from concentrate or (rarely) from actual roots. Like alcoholic beer, root beer has a thick and foamy head when poured.

Root beer is a predominantly North American beverage, constituting about 3% of the American soft drink market.

Beer is one of the oldest beverages humans have produced, possibly dating back to at least the 8th millennium BC (perhaps prior even to bread), and recorded in the written history of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. As almost any substance containing carbohydrates, namely sugar or starch, can naturally undergo fermentation, it is likely that beer-like beverages were independently invented among various cultures throughout the world.

In Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Levant, large-scale production of beer was common.[citation needed] In Europe, beer was being produced by or for monasteries as early as the 7th century. By the 14th and 15th centuries, beer had achieved great popularity, at least in part because health epidemics made drinking beer safer than drinking water. However it was not until the 17th century, according to Michael Jackson, that beer took on the styles and flavours that we might recognise in the beers of today.

Today, the brewing industry is a huge global business, consisting of several multinational companies, and many thousands of smaller producers ranging from brewpubs to regional breweries.

Answer 5

Alcohol is in normal beer, whereas root beer is a yummy soda that is great in a glass with a scoop of ice cream.

Answer 6

Beer is fermented hops, root beer is made with the root of a sasafras tree. Beer is alcoholic, root beer is not.

Answer 7

Root beer tastes better and has no alcohol.

Answer 8

haha!! root beet is made with an extract of wintergreen and is made kind of like beer, but different and also has no alcohol. it is sold as a regular soda. beer, on the other hand is yummy and gets you tipsy. try corona, sam adams octoberfest, and yuengling. good stuff!!

Answer 9

root beer is a soda and has no alcohol

Answer 10

Root bear is a carbonated soda that is non alcoholic with a completely different taste than regular bear which is alcoholic. A&W root bear is my favorite.